Abstract: During various steps in the design of a nuclear power plant, it is a common practice to generate accelerograms matching a design spectrum for one particular value of the damping ratio. Such ...

Abstract: In their recent paper 1 Segalman and coauthors estimate the probability distribution for the von Mises stress resulting from Gaussian random loadings of zero mean. Although they do not explain ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a noise radiation sensor consisting of an array of independent piezoelectric patches connected to an adaptive linear combiner. The coefficients of the linear combiner are ...