Abstract: Stepped beams constitute an important class of engineering structures whose vibration response has been widely studied. Many of the existing methods for studying stepped beams manifest serious numerical difficulties as the ...

Abstract: A systematic approach to defining margin in a manner that incorporates statistical information and accommodates data uncertainty but does not require assumptions about specific forms of the tails of distributions is ...

Abstract: Measurements are presented from a twobeam structure with several bolted interfaces in order to characterize the nonlinear damping introduced by the joints. The measurements (all at force levels below macroslip) reveal that ...