Abstract: Bridges that cross navigable waterways may be affected by accidental ship impacts. To better characterize ship impact loads on bridge pier structures, a comprehensive centrifuge model test program involving 48 ship impact ...

Abstract: Dynamic steadystate growth in 3D of a semiinfinite plane brittle crack in isotropic elastic solids is considered. Loads cause growth by translating on the crack surfaces at constant, subcritical speed. An analytical solution ...

Abstract: Complementary (homogeneous) transient solutions for orthotropic thermoelasticity with thermal relaxation admit plane waves that propagate in a principal plane without spatial attenuation, but with ...

Abstract: The motion of edge dislocations and slip on fault planes are important mechanisms involving sub and through-surface slip. Here exact solutions for largely arbitrary in-plane slip in a half plane ...

Abstract: Vacuum is proposed as a means for rescuing soil slopes showing signs of impending failure. Two aspects associated with the proposed method were studied; namely, the theory of airflow through dry soils and the effectiveness ...

Abstract: Large deformable membranes are currently used as optical reflector surfaces for solar concentrators. In this paper, we study moderate axisymmetric deformations of optical membrane surfaces and ...

Abstract: The transit time of short ultrasonic pulses in solid rods is used to measure pressures throughout the fluid range. Self-excited regenerating circuits are used. Measurements to 3500 bar with an ...

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Abstract: Two Green’s function problems for rapid two-dimensional steady-state crack growth governed by fully coupled (dynamic) linear thermoelasticity are analyzed. In Problem A, normal and in-plane shear ...

Abstract: A plane-strain study of a prestressed isotropic compressible neo-Hookean half-space subjected to shear and normal surface loads is performed. The loads are either stationary and applied for an ...