Journal of Vibration and Acoustics: Recent submissions
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Probabilistic Strength Design Based on Lognormal Distribution
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Nearest Neighbor-Time Series Analysis Classification of Faults in Rotating Machinery
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)A unified nearest neighbor-time series analysis approach to the problem of the classification of faults in rotating machinery is developed. The procedure has an optimum minimum probability of ... -
Strategies for Improved Nuclear Plant Reliability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)This paper presents a methodology for identifying cost-effective failure prevention strategies for components or systems in nuclear power plants. Two strategies identified are the improvement of ... -
Statistical Correlation Between the Thermal Transition Stress of a Specimen and its Resistance to Alternating Torsional Fatigue
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)The conventional difficulty encountered in fatigue studies is the impossibility of performing more than one fatigue test on a specimen. The purpose of this paper is to present a statistical ... -
Inertia Stresses in a Rotating Multisided Box or Tube
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)General formulas are developed for the prediction of the components of inertia loading acting on a solid, thin, rectangular section rotating with constant angular velocity about a center which ... -
Reliability of Aircraft Splines With or Without a Wear Induction Period
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)Mathematical models are developed for the wear-life distributions of aircraft splines which provide equations for predicting their reliability when spline-tooth wear is the failure mode under ... -
Shape of a Wire in a Centrifugal Field—Application to Quasi-Circular Bare Filament Flywheels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)In order to calculate the stress distribution in bare filament rotors it is necessary to evaluate with good approximation the shape taken by the wires in the centrifugal field (sometimes ... -
What Research is Needed in Reliability and Failure Prevention in the Field of Anti-Earthquake Design of Industrial Facilities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)This short article deals with the research needs of reliability and failure prevention in the field of anti-earthquake design of industrial facilities like nuclear power stations, oil refineries, ... -
Investigation of Thermal Effects on Weapon System Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)A three-dimensional stress analysis of a 30-mm machine gun component on the Harrier Aircraft was conducted to investigate the cause of observed fractures. The analysis was made using a general ... -
Determination of Stress Concentration Around an Oblique Hole by a Finite-Element Technique
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)A plate weakened by an oblique penetration of a circular cylindrical hole has been investigated. The stress concentration around the hole is determined by a finite-element method. The results ... -
Fail-Safe Vibration Control Using Active Force Generators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)Using the concept of force generators, various active vibration configurations have been examined for their performance potential. It is shown that an active vibration control system offers a ... -
An Analytical and Experimental Study of the Acoustical Noise Produced by Machine Links
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)Noise from high-speed machine systems is an important engineering design problem. This study investigates a recently developed analytical technique for calculating the noise generated by linkage-type ... -
A General Method for Estimating Reliability of Machine Elements Subjected to Fluctuating Load
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)In this paper, with the aid of approximate Taylor’s expansions for mean and standard deviation, a general method for estimating fatigue reliability of a machine element under a combined state ... -
Modern Automotive Structural Analysis
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An Introduction to the Design and Behaviour of Bolted Joints
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Flow Instability Due to a Diameter Reduction of Limited Length in a Long Annular Passage
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)Flow in an annular passage is a common feature in the fuel channels of the UK Advanced Gas Cooled Reactors, and in some cases has required investigation to avoid or reduce flow-induced ... -
Protection of Continuous Structures Against Vibrations by Active Damping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)In this paper, we deal with the problem of active damping of vibrations of a continuous viscoelastic structure, and a general method of computation of the control system is developed. We ... -
The Damping of Structural Vibration by Controlled Interfacial Slip in Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)The most significant source of damping inherent in a structure is that damping which occurs in the structural joints due to interfacial slip. Thus, particular emphasis should be put on controlling ... -
Comparison of Equivalent Viscous Damping and Nonlinear Damping in Discrete and Continuous Vibrating Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)The study of nonlinear damping in vibrations is motivated by the desire to represent and predict real responses more accurately than allowed by the limitations of linear analysis, since observed ... -
An Investigation of Dual Mode Phenomena in a Mistuned Bladed Disk
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1983)This paper presents the results of an investigation addressing the effects of mistuning on the lower modes of vibration of a simple bladed-disk model. The phenomena of dual modes, also known ...