Abstract: A cursory analysis of the stress history of wind turbine blades indicates that a single stress level at each wind speed does not adequately describe the blade stress history. A statistical ...

Abstract: A theoretical and experimental study is made of turbulent radial flow between parallel disks with choked conditions at the channel inlet. Supersonic flow is found to exist for some distance ...

Abstract: Owing to the geometric limitations of certain internal flow systems, the use of a conical or rectangular diffuser for the recovery of kinetic energy as static pressure is often impossible. ...

Abstract: The cost of repairing or replacing failed components depends on the number and timing of failures. Although the total probability of individual component failure is sometimes interpreted as the ...

Abstract: When a crack is lodged in an inclusion, differences between the moduli of the inclusion and the bulk material can cause the near-tip stress intensity factor to be greater or less than that ...

Abstract: The paper presents the application of a boundary element scheme to the study of the behavior of a penny-shaped matrix crack which occurs at an isolated fiber which is frictionally constrained. ...

Abstract: Rolling isolation systems (RISs) have been used extensively to protect bridges, buildings, and equipment from earthquake-induced ground and floor motions. RISs are attractive in a performance-based design context because ...

Abstract: A set of closed dynamical equations for the mean and variance of the turbulent vorticity field are used to study the piston driven flow in a two-dimensional model of an internal combustion ...

Abstract: The paper presents an experimental method for the solution of the plane state of stress of an elastic-plastic, isotropic solid that obeys the Mises yield condition and the associated flow rule. ...