Abstract: A new formulation in which the assumed stress field is divided into membrane and bending stress fields is developed. A family of effective shell elements of hybrid/mixed finite element method that accounts for transverse ...

Abstract: The effect of the initial ovality, wall thickness, and pressure level on the collapse time of a heat transfer tube subjected to both constant and cycled external pressure at elevated temperature ...

Abstract: As an important part of the civilization in China, ancient Chinese architecture has an indigenous and unique system of construction that has retained its principal characteristics from prehistoric times to the present and ...

Abstract: It is imperative to preserve ancient Chinese timber architecture because the impacts of time and the environment have seriously reduced the resistance capability of these historical relics. However, little information can ...