Abstract: Model studies have shown that end‐bearing pile settlement in a saturated sand deposit is very sensitive to excess pore pressures induced by earthquake shaking. Settlement amounting to pile failure will be reached before ...

Abstract: An analysis of bending stresses in flexible cables has been carried out. It has been found that stresses which arise due to fixity at the boundaries or other points of discontinuity, decay ...

Abstract: This research explores the use of automatic balancing (AB) devices or “autobalancers” for imbalance vibration suppression of flexible shafts operating at supercritical speeds. Essentially, an ...

Abstract: A failure condition recently proposed for the composite material syntactic foam is applied to the inhomogeneous state of stress which occurs in a layered sphere exposed to external pressure. ...

Abstract: A simple mathematical model representing the full three‐dimensional linear elastic response of multistory building systems with horizontal rigid‐body floors subjected to multicomponent earthquake excitations is presented. ...

Abstract: An engineering methodology is developed to build hazard curves to evaluate the probability of flood-induced overtopping of barriers in watershed-reservoir-dam systems. The probable maximum precipitation in the watershed ...