Abstract: An analysis is presented which allows prediction of closed-cycle OTEC power plant system response and control. Two basic operational control schemes are presented, which are primarily related to ...

Abstract: Efficient and accurate solutions of the interlaminar stresses in a layered beam under a temperature loading are obtained by a variational method using stress functions and the principle of ...

Abstract: By applying a slip-line fields solution for general yielding, which includes the tup indenter for Charpy V-notch and precracked Charpy tests, estimates of high loading-rate yield stress values ...

Abstract: This paper considers the problem of optimal (minimum-time) on-off regulation of a dynamic plant whose state is known only at periodic instants of time. It is shown that on-off control inputs ...

Abstract: In this paper a method is presented for estimating the effects of jerk limiting on the stability of the longitudinal dynamic response of automated transit vehicles.

Abstract: Diffusion of project partnering in the construction industry is argued to be insufficient. One possible explanation is that organizations do not intend to form project partnering. Therefore, the current research aims at ...

Abstract: Anisotropic laminates with bending-stretching coupling possess eigensolutions that are analytic functions of the complex variables x+μky, where the eigenvalues μk and the corresponding eigenvectors ...

Abstract: Vibration of a circular cylindrical shell with elastic boundary restraints is of interest to both researchers and structural engineers. This class of problems, however, is far less attempted in the literature than its ...