Abstract: Solder joint fatigue failures are a potential reliability hazard in surface-mount electronic packages under cyclic thermal loading environment. Proper design and reliability assessment are thus ...

Abstract: This is part II of a two-part paper presented by the authors for thermomechanical stress analysis of surface mount interconnects. A generalized multi-domain Rayleigh Ritz (MDRR) stress analysis ...

Abstract: This paper presents theoretical studies of the method of optimization of the stiffness of externally pressurized bearings. When an externally pressurized bearing is designed to operate at any ...

Abstract: An analytical model of expansion movements at the ends of pipelines is developed. A comparison with measurements on two North Sea pipelines shows that the analysis is consistent with observed ...

Abstract: Recently, accelerated testing of surface mount interconnects under combined temperature and vibration environments has been recognized to be a necessary activity to ensure enhanced test-time ...

Abstract: When designing embankments over soft soils, geotechnical engineers face many challenges. These include potential bearing failure, intolerable settlement, and global or local instability. Pile-supported embankments have ...

Abstract: As part of the quest to add the infraply scale to high-fidelity simulations of damage evolution in composites, a model of the phenomenon of delamination jumping across transverse plies is formulated by using nonlinear ...

Abstract: This paper presents a framework for managing the architecture/engineering/construction design process. The framework, called the process-parameter-interface (PPI) model, tries to address the design management issues of ...