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Showing 1 to 20 of 302 for “"Engineering Mechanics"”.
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A new paradigm in teaching large engineering mechanics courses
… in teaching large introductory fundamental engineering mechanics courses that combines student-centered learning and supplemental student resources. The sample consisted of close to 5000 engineering students from Iowa State University.</p> <p>Demographic characteristics in the study included …
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Modeling and Simulation of Random Processes and Fields in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
… and simulation of problems arising in Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics. There are two distinct parts. Part 1 covers work in modeling and analyzing heterogeneous materials using the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) with arbitrarily shaped inclusions. A novel enrichment function, …
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Rotational traction at the American football shoe-surface interface and its application to ankle injury
… (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Department of Engineering Mechanics, 2009
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Analysis of bending stresses on horizontally corrugated steel silo wall panels
… part of the program. A second approach by using engineering mechanics principles was used on the same wall configuration to find the stress resultants. A comparison was made between the flexural bending stresses from the finite element analysis with the tie bars and the flexural bending stresses …
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Design of fixtures and specimens for high strain-rate tensile testing on a drop tower
… options were considered and analyzed using engineering mechanics and finite element analysis. The design selected used a double dog-bone specimen bent into a "U"-shape and impacted by a weighted force sensor with a steel tup attached to the bottom. The appropriate fixtures were designed. …
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Automated Engineering Design for Reusable Concrete Building Structures
… and columns. This work presents an automated engineering design workflow for Pixelframe, including a engineering mechanics of the system that conforms to ACI 318- 19 [2] and fib Model Code 2010 [3], half-scale tests to verify the preliminary behavior of the system, and a scalable design …
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Static analysis for detecting and avoiding floating-point run-time errors in logic programs
… have important applications for instance in engineering, mechanics and computer aided graphics design. The abstraction of floating-point expressions into polyhedra includes two stages. the first, we present an approximation of floating-point expression by a polynomial with interval …
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Stable Embedded Grid Techniques in Computational Mechanics
<p>Engineering mechanics problems involving interfaces, whether physical or introduced by numerical methodologies, are commonplace. Just a few examples include fracture and fault mechanics, classical contact-impact, phase boundary propagation, and fluid-structure interaction. This dissertation …
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Physically based multiscale-viscoplastic model for metals and steel alloys: theory and computation
… number of applications in structural and engineering mechanics. The mechanical behavior of these applications cannot be characterized by classical (rate-independent) continuum theories because they incorporate no ‘material length scales’. It is therefore necessary to develop a …
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Optimal Parameters for Doubly Curved Sandwich Shells, Composite Laminates, and Atmospheric Plasma Spray Process
… solve problems in a number of fields including engineering mechanics. Bio-inspired optimization algorithms, including genetic algorithm (GA), have been studied for many years. There is a large literature on applying the GA to mechanics problems. However, disadvantages of the GA include the high …
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Enhanced intersection cutting plane and reformulation-linearization enumeration based approaches for linear complementarity problems
… areas including optimal control, economics, engineering, mechanics, and quadratic programming. This class of problems has posed a challenge to researchers for over three decades now. Most of the current algorithms designed to solve LCP are guaranteed to work only under some restrictive …
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Investigation of Through-Tenon Keys on the Tensile Strength of Mortise and Tenon Joints
… Lateral Connection Values (TR-12), and engineering mechanics. Variables included joint species (white oak or Douglas-fir), protruding tenon length (four or 11 inches), and number of keys (one or two). Joints were tested to ultimate load, then model input specimens were cut from tested …
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