Abstract: This paper presents a new design of a deployable one degreeoffreedom (DOF) mechanism. Polygonal rigidlink designs are first investigated. Then, beltdriven links are considered in order to maximize the expansion ratio while ...

Abstract: Concrete-filled fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) tubes (CFFTs) have been studied extensively under almost all loading conditions, except torsion. In this pioneering study, six 168-mm-diameter samples were tested in pure ...

Abstract: The combined torsion and bending response of concrete-filled fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) tubes (CFFTs) was investigated in this study. The CFFT samples were produced from the same 166-mm-diameter nearly cross-ply filament ...

Abstract: The effects of disorder on the forced response of nearly periodic structures with cyclic symmetry are investigated. The force model adopted here is relevant to blade assemblies. Perturbation ...

Abstract: An investigation of the effects of small structural irregularities on the dynamics of nearly periodic structures with cyclic symmetry is presented. The system studied may be regarded as a simple ...

Abstract: The two-dimensional slab-symmetric numerical cloud model used by Soong and Ogura (1973) for studying the evolution of an isolated cumulus cloud is extended to investigate the statistical properties of cumulus clouds which ...

Abstract: Internal wave theory is used to examine the generation, radiation, and energy dissipation of internal tides in the deep ocean. Estimates of vertical energy flux based on a previously developed model are adjusted to account ...

Abstract: The diffraction of a solitary wave around a vertical surface-piercing circular cylinder is described to a first approximation, and the resulting forces on the cylinder are calculated. This represents a limiting case of a ...

Abstract: The conventional way to define the weldment creep strength reduction factor is usually based on uniaxial creep data of weld metals and parent metals. In order to take the multiaxial effect ...