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Stochastic Finite Element Analysis of a Damped Beam on Random Foundation and Subjected to Fast Moving Loads
The dynamic effect of fast moving loads on a rail is analysed by the perturbation-based stochastic finite element method. The rail is modeled as an elastic beam resting on the Winkler...

Evaluation of Seismic Soil Response Using Stochastic Linearization
This paper discusses the use of stochastic linearization to non-degrading soils. First, the Bouc-Wen model parameters are reviewed. Monte Carlo simulation results are compared with the...

Wavefront Propagation in Random Granular Media
A very brief account is given of a stochastic method developed for analysis of transient waves propagating in one-dimensional random granular-type media. The method is suited to study...

Stochastic Critical Excitations
Conventional methods of seismic analysis of structures frequently use the response spectrum or time history analysis techniques. The excitations for the time history analysis can be either...

Seismic Response Variability of Soil Sites
The seismic response variability of soil sites due to randomness associated with both the input base motion and spatial inhomogeneity of the shear modulus is investigated. Some numerical...

Analytical Methods for the Determination of Correlations and Spectra of Nonlinear System Response
Three analytical methods are described for the prediction of response correlation functions and spectra of nonlinear dynamic systems under white noise excitation. The associated FPK equation...

Truncation of Infinite Hierarchy for Hysteretic Systems
An analytical approach for estimating the response statistics of hysteretic systems subjected to Gaussian or Non-Gaussian white noise excitation is proposed. A generalized Ito moment equation...

Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints Under Broadband Loadings
Twelve welded high strength steel cruciform specimens were tested under stochastic loadings to determine the influence on fatigue life of the bandwidth of the loading process. Constant...

Low-Cycle Fatigue Prediction for Ramberg-Osgood Type Materials
The prediction of low-cycle fatigue crack growth is successfully made by an equation employing the J-integral range. This equation, originally proposed by Dowling and Begley, is analogous...

Response of Secondary Systems to Short Duration Stochastic Input
Techniques have been developed for evaluating the mean-square response of systems to non-stationary loads. To gain insight into the response behavior, approximate expressions have been...

A Non-Gaussian Fatigue Model for Offshore Structures
Fatigue damage accumulation in members of offshore structures can be affected by various aspects of the non-Gaussian response stress time history induced by the nonlinear/non-Gaussian...

Stochastic Modeling of Short Fiber Reinforced Composites?A Review
Since the early 1960's, an extensive research and development has been carried out with fiber reinforced cements and concretes. Modeling of such heterogeneous material is still in the...

Numerical Solution of the Transient Fokker-Planck Equation: The Movie
The finite element method is applied to the solution of the transient Fokker-Planck equation for several nonlinear dynamical systems in R², giving...

Markov Decision Processes in Structural Optimization
Initial structural design and its associated inspection and maintenance policies are modelled as a Markov Decision Process. This approach attempts to realistically capture the dynamics...

Reliability-Based Optimization Using Sequential Quadratic Programming
This paper proposes a method for reliability-based optimization of large structures using the Stochastic Finite Element Method, including both component and system reliabilities. In SFEM,...

Critical Buckling Load Statistics of an Uncertain Column
The objective of this paper is to examine the statistics of the buckling load of a column with uncertain material properties. The elastic modulus is assumed to be a random process that...

Engineering of Controlled-Drainage Systems
Soil-water management by water table control (via a dual purpose subdrainage-subirrigation system) is becoming popular in humid regions of the U.S. and Canada. Controlled-drainage is an...

Stochastic Analysis of Seasonal Hydraulic Conductivity
Infiltration data collected by a ring infiltrometer tests, for summer, fall, and spring seasons, were used to determine hydraulic conductivity using Philip's two-term infiltration equation....

ETBC: Interactive Software for Blaney-Criddle Estimates of Evapotranspiration
ETBC is a menu-driven computer program which calculates monthly evapotranspiration (ET) using the USDA Soil Conservation Service version of the Blaney-Criddle formula, as described in...

Standard Reference Evapotranspiration Calculations: REF-ET
REF-ET is a PC software program for computing standard calculations of reference evapotranspiration (E_to) and associated variables. Computations...

 

 

 

 

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