Abstract: The solution of the problem of pure bending of shallow helicoidal shells is obtained in terms of elementary functions. Numerical results for the direct and bending stresses as well as for the ...

Abstract: The side-force problem for a shallow helicoidal shell is shown to be the complete static-geometric analog of the pure bending problem for the same shell. The solution of the former in terms ...

Abstract: A number of new cam profiles of the dwell-rise-dwell type have been proposed by different researchers in the past two decades. They were claimed as efficient cam curves suitable for high-speed ...

Abstract: The dynamic characteristics of a cam-actuated system whose follower mass is coupled with a nonlinear pneumatic mechanism of hysteretic type are investigated using a lumped-parameter model. The ...

Abstract: An algebraic method is presented for synthesizing the four-bar crank-rocker mechanisms in general, with the offset slider-crank mechanism as a special case, for coordinating the prescribed input ...

Abstract: The cam-and-follower mechanism is represented by a lumped parameter model of finite degrees of freedom, in which nonlinear system parameters may be taken into account. An approximate dynamic ...

Abstract: In this paper, a new numerical method of finite integration is introduced for synthesizing the cam profile for arbitrarily prescribed acceleration curves. The method is compared with the ...

Abstract: A novel system decoupling approach (SDA) that enables three degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) bridge flutter analysis is proposed in this study to simultaneously investigate the relationships between modal parameters and 18 flutter ...

Abstract: The extraction of 18 flutter derivatives of bridge decks from three degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) free vibration data using a novel direct approach is addressed in this study. Different with many conventional methods that ...