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Vibrations of X-Braced Portal Frames
Because of devastation of structures due to earthquake and wind force, increasing attention has been paid to dynamic responses of braced structures...
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Solutions to the Equation of Motion
As a preliminary to solving the equation of motion (7.1) for the uniformly charged sphere of radius a and total charge e, write the magnitude of the...
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A Boundary-Layer Solution Verified by Buckling of a Rectangular Plate
The so called edge-zone or boundary-layer solutions are widely used in large dediection problems of thin elastic plates [20,35,36] and shells...
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Inclined Girders with End Constraint Subjected to Normal Loads
A two-bar truss subjected to lateral normal distributed loads as shown in Fig. 9.1 represents a double leaf miter-type gate used in navigation locks...
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Electromagnetic, Electrostatic, Bare, Measured, and Insulator Masses
As a means of discussing the various masses, let us summarize the basic results that have been derived so far in our re-examination of the Lorentz...
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6 Dynamic Analysis
A general dynamical system subjected to an external force vector $\vec{f}(t)$...
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10 Equivalent Statistical Linearization
The solution of non-linear vibration problems in terms of probabilistic characteristics of the response is a complex task, since no general methods...
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12 Stability Analysis of Cylindrical Shells with Random Imperfections
As an example of imperfection sensitive structures, the axially compressed cylindrical shell is analyzed in the subsequent sections. Despite of its...
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2 Outline
The monograph is structured as follows: Part I including Chapts. 3–6 reviews briefly the theoretical background of the deterministic methods and...
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Laws of Macroscopic Heat Transferand Their Limits
In this introductory text, we examine the three mechanisms of heat transfer. For each one, we review the main ideas used in the traditional...
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Investigation of Short-Time Heat Transfer Effects by an Optical Pump–Probe Method
The study of heat transfer properties on micro- and nanoscales generally requires one to work on time scales ranging between a few picoseconds and a...
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Radiative Transfer on Short Length Scales
Heat transfer of radiative origin is treated classically by the transport equation of a phenomenological quantity called the specific intensity (see...
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Two Methods for Analysis of Continuum Mechanics of Elastic Structures
There are two basic methods to analyze the continuum elastic structural mechanics: One is by applying Newton’s law of motion to a free body element...
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Vibrations of Inclined Bars with End Constraint
Considered are the vibrations of inclined bars with the bottom end flxed in space and the top end having a constraint which requires that this end...
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Buckling of Inclined Columns
The stability of a simple truss subjected to a single force, P, as shown in Fig. 8.1 was investigated by Mises [40] as a basic model to illustrate...
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Membrane Vibrations of Conical Shells
The vibrations of conical shells are due to the inertial and external forces acting the transverse, circumferential and meridional directions of the...
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Half-Metallicity and Slater-Pauling Behavior in the Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys
A significant number of the intermetallic Heusler alloys have been predicted to be half-metals. In this contribution we present a study of the basic...
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Materials Design and Molecular-Beam Epitaxy of Half-Metallic Zinc-Blende CrAs and the Heterostructures
Zinc-blende half-metallic ferromagnets are promising materials in order to open up a new world of semiconductor spintronics. We design a new class of...
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Magnetism and Structure of Magnetic Multilayers Based on the Fully Spin Polarized Heusler Alloys Co2MnGe and Co2MnSn
Our Introduction starts with a short general review of the magnetic and structural properties of the Heusler compounds which are under discussion in...