Abstract: During a severe accident, buckling of a steel containment hatch door, large deformation and ovaling of the hatch sleeve are potential causes of mismatch at the sealing surface which can result ...

Abstract: The response of axisymmetric shells to internal localized impulsive loadings that produce large deformations and material nonlinearities is analyzed. Also, simplified methods for the prediction of the strain ductility of ...

Abstract: Loadings to cause severe accidents on containment buildings can include combinations of uniform internal pressure, dynamic pressure, and seismic. Most studies that have been conducted to predict ...

Abstract: Piles in integral abutment bridges (jointless bridges) are subjected to lateral movement due to thermal expansion and contraction of the superstructure. The reduction in vertical load‐carrying capacity of the piles due to ...

Abstract: Penetrations, in the pressure-resistant structure of a submersible, disturb the stress condition in the shell and may cause a premature failure. In this paper, two types of finite-element solutions ...

Abstract: Eleven one‐tenth scale tubular steel pile tests are conducted to establish the behavior of pinned‐head friction piles in loose sand, fixed‐head friction piles in both loose and compacted sand, and a fixed‐head bearing pile ...

Abstract: Inspection and rating of public infrastructure has become a focus of many recent studies because of well-documented deterioration and failure case studies. A new indirect inspection technique using ultrasonic spread-spectrum ...

Abstract: Two-phase flow analysis is used to analyze sediment concentration profiles in uniform open-channel flows over flat, sediment-starved beds that have high concentrations of single-sized sediment. Two-phase flow analysis can ...

Abstract: An unsteady total load equation is derived for use in depth-averaged sediment transport models. The equation does not require the load to be segregated a priori into bed and suspended but rather automatically switches to ...

Abstract: The movement of finite amplitude sediment accumulations is studied using a simple advection-diffusion relation derived from the sediment continuity equation and using some heuristic reasoning. The movement of a finite ...