Abstract: In this paper, the free vibrations of a wide range of tapered Timoshenko beams are investigated. The cross section of the beam varies continuously and the variation is described by a power ...

Abstract: An incremental variational formulation and a curved‐shell element were proposed in the companion paper. In this part, the material model and solution techniques are discussed in detail. The strain‐hardening plastic approach ...

Abstract: An incremental variational formulation is presented for large deflection analysis of elastic‐plastic continuum by considering the energy consistency of a nonlinear multivariable discrete system based upon incompatible trial ...

Abstract: The incremental method has been widely used in various types of nonlinear analysis, however, so far it has received little attention in the analysis of periodic nonlinear vibrations. In this ...

Abstract: A mixed variational principle for thin‐walled prismatic structures is formulated and a solution method is proposed. In this principle, the cross section of the thin‐walled prismatic structure is assumed to be rigid in its ...

Abstract: In this paper, Biot's consolidation of layered soil is solved by the finite layer (strip) method based on quasi‐variational as well as least square approaches. The two‐ (three‐) dimensional medium is idealized by as many ...

Abstract: A variable parameter incrementation method is proposed and then applied to the determination of parametric instability boundary of columns. Attention is particularly paid to the geometrically ...

Abstract: The steady-state responses of damped periodic systems with finite or infinite degrees-of-freedom and one nonlinear disorder to harmonic excitation are investigated by using the Lindstedt-Poincare ...

Abstract: The localized modes of periodic systems with infinite degrees-of-freedom and having one or two nonlinear disorders are examined by using the Lindstedt-Poincare (L-P) method. The set of nonlinear ...