Abstract: Many experimental programs utilize traversing probes to measure spatial profiles of a variable. These measurements are taken asynchronously because the probe measures one location at a time. During an experiment of this ...

Abstract: Ten-day fire weather records from forestry lookouts in the southern California mountains are used to describe summer thunderstorm activity. The distribution of thunderstorms during a typical season closely resembles rainy-day ...

Abstract: This paper presents the ways that sample rate, sample time, and number of test replications can affect the random uncertainty in a measurement. Typical steady timewise experiments seek the average values of measured ...

Abstract: The low velocity impact (LVI)-induced damage of a highly anisotropic laminate [0/90/0/909]s has been studied experimentally and numerically. The purpose of the analyses of this laminate is that this stacking sequence ...

Abstract: Hemispherical shells subjected to external pressure loading are known to be sensitive to geometric imperfections. Dimple imperfections and their effects on the buckling and postbuckling response of spherical and hemispherical ...

Abstract: This paper presents an exact, twodimensional (2D) quasistatic elastic analysis of predelaminated composite panels subject to arbitrary transverse pressure loads. The piecewise linear spring model and the shear bridging ...

Abstract: The crushing response of polycarbonate circular cell honeycomb to inplane uniaxial loading under displacement control is analyzed through a combination of experiment and numerical simulation. The ...

Abstract: A perturbationbased approach is implemented to study the sound attenuation in distorted cylindrical mufflers with various inlet/outlet orientations. Study of the transmission loss (TL) in mufflers requires solution of the ...

Abstract: The sound attenuation performance in elliptic chamber mufflers with extended inlet and outlet ports is investigated in the present work. Unlike cylindrical geometries, the ellipticity of the chamber prevents development ...

Abstract: The timedependent progressive evolution of transverse displacements of an axially impacted, slender, geometrically imperfect, column is studied here. The analysis is concerned with evaluating the timehistory associated ...