Abstract: Thin spinning annular disks, which have widely varying applications ranging from inertial wheels in spacecraft to computer data storage devices, experience some inherent vibration problems during ...

Abstract: Wastewater pipes age and deteriorate over time, and utilities face great challenges in operating and maintaining their wastewater pipe infrastructure. Thus, systematic assessment and evaluation programs are required for ...

Abstract: The Ritz averaging method is utilized to reduce the nonlinear characteristics of piping system supports (snubbers) to equivalent linear support stiffnesses during seismic excitation. The equivalent ...

Abstract: The damping coefficients and ratios of piping system snubber supports were found to vary logarithmically with pipe support nodal displacement. For piping systems with fundamental frequencies in ...

Abstract: In this study of flexible piping systems (0.6 to 6.6 Hz), it was shown that the fundamental mode was not always the most significant mode of vibration. This study also concluded that variations ...