Abstract: The study introduces a concept of contact stress analysis to the local stress calculation of plate and shell structures in pressure vessels. A new computational method for local stresses is ...

Abstract: A numerical scheme for the axially symmetric contact problem of a plate pressed between two identical spheres is given. The axially symmetric contact stress distribution is represented by a ...

Abstract: Increasing the damping level is an important approach toward the rise of earthquake resistance capability of a structure. In this paper, the steel tube is filled with metal foam for increasing its damping level. A parameter ...

Abstract: The zerothorder parametric finitevolume direct averaging micromechanics (FVDAM) theory is further extended in order to model the evolution of damage in periodic heterogeneous materials. Toward this end, displacement ...

Abstract: Assuming that a dry circular center is present at which the contact angle between the liquid and solid phases remains constant at all times, the axisymmetric free surface of liquid on a flat ...

Abstract: The equations of thermal stresses and displacements in anisotropic hollow cylinders subjected to various selected temperature boundary conditions have been derived. The hollow cylinder is assumed ...

Abstract: The maintenance of a jet-type zonal circulation is discussed from the viewpoint of vorticity balance. Through skin friction, the atmosphere gains vorticity from the earth in the region of anticyclonic vorticity at the ...

Abstract: For closed-loop spatial RSRC mechanisms, input-output rotatability conditions, i.e., conditions for the existence of crank-rocker and drag-link types of mechanisms, are derived using geometrical ...