Bolted joints are among the most common structural elements in precision machinery. They are used because they are strong, serviceable and reliable. Yet, despite their prevalence, the moment stiffness ...

The Florida State Seminoles have produced plenty of college football and NFL legends throughout the years. When there's a big game in Tallahassee, you can expect the stars to come out to shine in ...

Based on a neural network, this paper presents a new adaptive iterative learning control method for the finite-time tracking control problem of an uncertain aircraft track angle system, which can ...

With the development and utilization of underground space, many scholars are studying the failure mechanism of tunnel (Xiang et al., 2018; Chen et al., 2019). As a common auxiliary construction method ...

Small deflections in both a thin rectangular plate and a thin circular plate are studied via the variational method. In order to apply Hamilton’s principle to this system, the potential energy is ...

Laboratory for Characterisation and Processing of Polymers, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maribor, Smetanova Ulica 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia ...

This paper presents a direct time-domain three dimensional (3D) numerical procedure to simulate the transient response of very large floating structures (VLFS) subjected to unsteady external loads as ...