Abstract: Trenchless construction of pipes can influence the behavior of the soil mass surrounding the pipe depending on the method of construction. A new method for the analysis of buried pipes, introduced in this paper, is capable ...

Abstract: In earlier studies of multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) systems, an impact had always been assumed to affect the velocity of the lumped mass at the point of impact. Experiments show that the velocities of all points in a ...

Abstract: Statistical analysis of the phenomenon of impact damping is performed on 60 steady-state vibration tests of a flexible beam to relate the system's modal damping to system parameters. Compared with other measures of ...