Abstract: This paper presents closed form solutions for simply supported cylindrical and spherical shells subjected to uniform localized distributions of transverse pressure and bending moment. These ...

Abstract: Bins with flat bottoms and multiple openings are commonly used in industry to store granular solids because of their lower cost and because they occupy smaller vertical space than bins with ...

Abstract: The performance of railway tracks can be assessed by separately applying different approaches, such as reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) and lifecycle costing (LCC). Results of these approaches ...

Abstract: The main objective of this research is the formalization of strategies and technical procedures for recycling porous European mixes (PEMs) back to permeable wearing courses. A number of issues were studied: mitigating the ...

Abstract: The island of Ortigia is a small extremity of the urban fabric of the city of Siracusa, located in the eastern part of Sicily. The island forms part of the historic city center and is characterized by its own particular ...

Abstract: A failure analysis of composite plates accounting for localized loadings is presented in this work. A unified formulation is adopted to derive classical, higher order, layerwise, and mixed theories. A closed form, Navier-type ...

Abstract: Reliability assessment of linear discretized structures with interval parameters subjected to stationary Gaussian multicorrelated random excitation is addressed. The interval reliability function for the extreme value ...