Abstract: The response to white noise excitation of a light elastic string loaded at equal intervals by a number of equal masses is examined using the theory of the Markov random process and the ...

Abstract: This paper deals with the vibration of heavy unsymmetrical shafts possessing unequal flexural rigidities in the principal directions and running in symmetrical bearings. The existence of several ...

Abstract: Moments and mean crossing rates are determined for the response of linear systems subject to polynomial forms in Gauss-Markov processes. Differential equations describing the evolution in time ...

Abstract: The reliability of linear viscoelastic systems, forced by a stationary Gaussian random excitation, is investigated. The first-passage problem is studied under both the Poisson approximation and the integral equation method. ...

Abstract: The behavior and modeling of connections, which form the essential bases of accounting for connection flexibility in the analysis and design of steel-frame structures, have been under investigation since the 1930s. This ...

Abstract: The torsional vibration of moving bands subject to harmonic tension fluctuation is investigated. A thin rectangular strip translating longitudinally with a constant speed and simply supported at ...

Abstract: Flexural instabilities in moving bands under harmonic tension fluctuation are investigated. The discretized equations of flexural motion represent a periodically perturbed linear gyroscopic system. ...

Abstract: The almost-sure asymptotic stability of a class of coupled multi-degrees-of-freedom systems subjected to parametric excitation by an ergodic stochastic process of small intensity is studied. Explicit ...

Abstract: The condition for bifurcation of equilibrium for an elastic-plastic cylindrical shell under axial compression is established. The shape of the yield surface has been left arbitrary; hence the ...