Abstract: In many situations, encountered both in the field and in the laboratory, the excitation produced by a broadband random source has many of the characteristics of a signal having a Gaussian ...

Abstract: A method to evaluate the probability of failure of a failure path leading to fatigue collapse of an offshore structure is presented. The failure path is modeled by a number of failure elements, ...

Abstract: Since optimum damping is difficult to achieve, raising the natural frequency of the printed-circuit motor is necessary for smooth starting and stopping. Designing for this higher natural frequency ...

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Abstract: A Kolsky torsion bar is utilized successfully in a novel rheometric experiment for measuring the transient large-strain response of polymer melts under high shear-rate loading. A molten low-density ...

Abstract: This study examined the effect of the addition of activated carbon to three, 3 L submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactors (SAMBRs) in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal, flux, and transmembrane pressure (TMP). ...

Abstract: Axisymmetric buckling, initial post-buckling and growth of a circular delamination bridged by nonlinear fibers in three-dimensional composites are studied by a perturbation method. The through-thickness ...

Abstract: When an anisotropic elastic material is under a two-dimensional deformation that has a hole of given geometry Γ subjected to a prescribed boundary condition, the problem can be solved by mapping ...

Abstract: Circular skirted offshore foundations on nonhomogeneous soil have been studied numerically, analytically, and physically, with the offshore sediment simulated as a cohesive soil with strength increasing linearly with depth. ...