Abstract: Snow avalanche hazard is one of the most critical aspects in the urbanization of mountainous areas. The risk from these natural phenomena can be reduced if proper countermeasures for reducing the danger or preventing ...

Abstract: The present paper deals with the optimal design of nonprismatic beams, i.e., beams with variable cross section. To set the optimization problem, Euler-Bernoulli unshearable beam theory is considered and the elastica ...