Abstract: The paper presents the development of a localized necking criterion based on the singularity of acoustic tensor. This criterion is applicable to materials exhibiting strain-softening behavior. The ...

Abstract: The undrained response of sand under complex loading conditions involving principal stress rotation (PSR) is of particular interest in practical engineering. Although this subject has been studied extensively through ...

Abstract: The failure of electrical devices associated with solder joints has become one of the most critical reliability issues for surface-mounted devices. Solder joint reliability performance has been ...

Abstract: In this paper, an analytical model is developed to determine the torsional-flexural buckling load of a channel column braced by unevenly distributed batten plates. Solutions of the critical-buckling loads were derived for ...

Abstract: Using conduits in which a transmitted shock wave experiences abrupt changes in its direction of propagation is an effective means for shock wave attenuation. An additional attenuation of the ...

Abstract: This study demonstrates the feasibility of using multilayer feedforward neural networks to model the complicated nonlinear relationship between the various input parameters associated with reinforced concrete columns and ...

Abstract: To date, material modeling has involved the development of mathematical models of material behavior derived from human observation of, and reasoning with, experimental data. An alternative, discussed in this paper, is to ...

Abstract: In this paper, an analytical model is developed to determine the torsional-flexural buckling load of a channel column braced by unevenly distributed batten plates. Solutions of the critical-buckling loads were derived for ...