Abstract: An intriguing manifestation of the underlying nonlinear fluid dynamic character of the atmosphere is found in an idealized quasigeostrophic model of the troposphere. For identical forcing and dissipation, the model?s climate ...

Abstract: Laplace transform techniques greatly simplify many problems in linear viscoelasticity. However, if realistic material property representations are used, inversion of the resulting transforms can be ...

Abstract: Recent advances in computer based structural analysis have in turn led to increased demands for models that can accurately represent material stress-strain behavior. The constitutive representation ...

Abstract: The formation of matrix microcracks in fiber composite laminates has been widely observed. The present paper addresses the mechanics of this microcracking by means of a shear lag model in ...

Abstract: Compression failure in fiber composites is of much interest, and is often a limiting factor in applications because of the lower compressive strength relative to tensile strength. In the present ...

Abstract: Foil bearings are a key enabling technology for advanced and oil-free rotating machinery. In certain applications, they provide a level of performance that is difficult or impossible to match ...

Abstract: It seems likely that improvements in drilling mechanics will result from an understanding of the stress and strain fields in the rock. Along with this an understanding of rock fracture under ...

Abstract: The Magnus force on a rotating body traveling through a fluid is partly responsible for ballistic missile and rifle shell inaccuracies and dispersion and for the strange deviational behavior ...

Abstract: A potent mechanism for the generation of low-frequency atmospheric variability on vortex basic states consisting of a single potential vorticity jump, or contour, separating two regions of uniform equivalent barotropic ...