Abstract: Recent experiments of Rosakis et al. have clearly shown that the crack-tip velocity can exceed the shear wave speed for a crack tip propagating between two weakly bonded, identical and isotropic ...

Abstract: In Part I of this series, we have obtained the fundamental solution for a mode II intersonic crack which involves a crack moving uniformly at a velocity between the shear and longitudinal ...

Abstract: The flow field generated by the combination of a downward-oriented annular slot jet with a circumferential velocity component and a suction port in the space between two horizontal planes is ...

Abstract: Current methodologies used for the inference of thin film stress through curvature measurements are strictly restricted to stress and curvature states that are assumed to remain uniform over the ...

Abstract: The determination of the effective moduli for a material containing elliptical inclusions is the objective of this paper. This is done by incorporating an inclusion/matrix/composite model into a ...

Abstract: This study focuses on the safety assessment of antiliquefaction performance of an embankment of a reservoir, which is an important infrastructure located in Shanghai, China. The performance-based design (PBD) philosophy ...

Abstract: Earthquake-induced liquefaction is a major threat to the safety of earth embankments. This paper presents an experiment-based safety assessment of antiliquefaction performance of a constructed reservoir embankment. This ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel analytic approach to solve the buckling instability of Euler-Bernoulli columns with arbitrarily axial nonhomogeneity and/or varying cross section. For various columns including pinned-pinned ...