Abstract: This paper investigates the elastic impact of a sphere on a thin plate which is in continuous contact with a foundation. The reaction pressure is considered to be proportional to the local ...

Abstract: This paper presents a static, modal solution of Flugge’s thin shell equations for the cases of a ring or a long cylinder in a state of plane strain. The solution derived here enables the ...

Abstract: In 1972 a method was presented for evaluating the added mass of fluid contained between two long co-axial cylinders. The resulting equations have been widely quoted in the literature, and the ...

Abstract: The replacement of the Thames River Railroad Bridge between Groton and New London, Connecticut, was a challenging task on many levels, some of them anticipated, some of them not. The effort culminated with an outage that ...

Abstract: This is a state-of-the-art review of various treatments of earthquake loaded liquid filled shells by the methods of earthquake engineering, fluid dynamics, structural and soil dynamics, as well ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional reconstructions of cardiac ventricular chambers can be obtained from two-dimensional echocardiographic and ultrafast computed tomographic images. Using finite element analysis of the reconstructed geometry, ...