Abstract: A practical method for the analysis and design of reinforced‐concrete columns under uniaxial/biaxial loads is presented. In this iterative method, the section strength is evaluated based on a known neutral axis and/or ...

Abstract: An analytical study of the compressibility effects on the characteristics of two-dimensional slider bearings is made. By the variational method, it is shown that, for a given bearing length, ...

Abstract: A method for determining the optimal control of unconstrained and linearly constrained linear dynamic systems with quadratic performance indices is presented. The method is based on a modified ...

Abstract: Results obtained from a study of the indeterminateness of the boundary conditions for laminar “free” mixing of two parallel streams under constant pressure are presented in this paper. A method ...

Abstract: The problem of controlling a group of networked mechanical systems to synchronize and follow a common trajectory is studied in this paper. We first address the results for networked mechanical systems to achieve synchronization ...

Abstract: A numerical method is introduced for direct analysis of nonlinear behavior of slender beam‐columns. A strain control technique in conjunction with the quasi‐Newton's method was developed to obtain the updated flexural ...