Abstract: The characteristic of the thermal performance of the Minto solar wheel is that its thermal efficiency is strongly dependent on the material properties of the working fluid. For a specified ...

Abstract: It is a well‐known paradox in the theory of plastic plate buckling that the discredited deformation theory of plasticity predicts the buckling stress well, whereas the generally accepted incremental theory predicts a ...

Abstract: A fracture parameter Mc is proposed for evaluation of the surface energy associated with the creation of multiple curved cracks in 2D rubbery solids under the action of large deformation. Based ...

Abstract: A theoretical solution for the subcritical growth of a crack in a quasi‐brittle solid is applied to predict the time for progressive failure to develop in a heavily overconsolidated clay slope. The solution utilizes the ...

Abstract: To simplify a complicated problem, most previous investigations of wave-induced seabed response have been concerned with an isotropic seabed with uniform soil characteristics, even though strong evidence of anisotropic ...

Abstract: To assure a successful completion of an assigned task without interruption, such as the collision with fixtures, the hand of a mechanical manipulator often travels along a preplanned path. An ...

Abstract: Recently, considerable efforts have been devoted to the phenomenon of wave-seabed-pipeline interaction. However, conventional investigations for this problem have been concerned with a uniform seabed, despite the strong ...

Abstract: Analyses are presented for the performance of direct contact jet and spray condensers in the presence of noncondensables. A solution procedure is developed which obtains analytically the liquid-side ...

Abstract: Recently, the 3D or stacked-die packages become increasingly popular for packaging ICs into a system or subsystem to satisfy the needs of low cost, small form factor, and high performance. For ...

Abstract: The constitutive law of the material comprising any structure is essential for mechanical analysis since this law enables calculation of the stresses from the deformations and vice versa. To ...