Abstract: Friction significantly influences the mechanical system dynamics, especially when selflocking property is observed. The Coulomb model is frequently adopted to represent friction in multibody analysis and simulation. It can ...

Abstract: This paper presents a general theory that describes the cyclic loading behavior of different materials. It is mathematically based on the theory of fuzzy sets. From the constitutive modeling point of view it is closely ...

Abstract: Experimental results concerning the in situ pullout resistance of dynamically driven nails are presented. These results show that the actual pullout resistance is much higher than that predicted by the classical approach. ...

Abstract: The performance of certain nonlinear stochastic systems is deemed acceptable if during a specified time interval, the systems have sufficiently low probabilities of escape from a preferred region ...