Abstract: There are insufficient details during preliminary stages of a pressure component design to warrant a comprehensive inelastic determination of the fracture energy release rate, J. A simplified ...

Abstract: This paper provides direct solution or iteration procedures to the following four types of submerged flow problems for rectangular sluice gates: (1) find discharge per unit width (

Abstract: This technical note presents the results of an experimental study on submerged flow over full-width sharp-crested rectangular weirs. Submerged flow was divided into impinging jet and surface flow regimes. A diagram has ...

Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of a submerged hydraulic jump being used for energy dissipation. A baffle wall is used to produce a stable deflected surface jet, thereby deflecting the high-velocity supercritical stream ...

Abstract: This technical note presents the results of a laboratory study of the transition region from the end of a hydraulic jump to fully developed open channel flow. The velocity profile changes from that of a wall jet to the ...

Abstract: Finite-element analysis of strain localization based on classical theory of continuum mechanics suffers from pathological mesh dependence when strain softening models are used. For quasistatic problems, the mesh dependence ...

Abstract: The Mode I stress intensity factor of a sector crack in a three-dimensional Voronoi polycrystal is computed by the body force technique. Microstructural stresses arising from the elastic anisotropy ...

Abstract: This paper analyzes and evaluates the EPA's hazard ranking system for uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Two hypothetical sites were developed from several actual case studies for use in the analysis. Sensitivity analyses ...