Abstract: It is generally conceived that a blade surface is flank millable if it can be closely approximated by a ruled surface; otherwise the slow machining process of point milling has to be employed. ...

Abstract: A series of high-pressure compression tests with various stress paths under monotonic and cyclic loadings were performed to examine the compression and particle crushing characteristics of silica sand in a dense state. ...

Abstract: The stationary response of multi-degree-of-freedom dissipated Hamiltonian systems to random pulse trains is studied. The random pulse trains are modeled as Poisson white noises. The approximate ...

Abstract: The effect of tape surface roughness on the head-tape interface is investigated for typical head contours using tapes with different surface roughness characteristics. Intensity-based monochromatic ...

Abstract: Optimal design and rehabilitation of a water distribution system is a constrained nonlinear optimization problem. A penalty function is often employed to transform a constrained into a nonconstrained optimization problem ...

Abstract: A flexible disk, with small initial warpage/skew, is spinning in close proximity to a stationary baseplate. The partial differential equation for the disk deflection is coupled to the Reynolds ...