Abstract: The natural boundary conditions for corners of a certain type of twodimensional problem are derived from the variational principle. A plate problem formulated by the principle of minimum potential energy belongs to this ...

Abstract: In this paper, a new efficient reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) method is proposed for structures, in which the double-loop optimization is equivalently decoupled into a sequential process based on a performance ...

Abstract: Landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) often experience drastic changes in their motion, intensity, and structure due to complex multiscale interactions among atmospheric processes and among the coastal ocean, land, and ...