TransAct: An Interactive Transient Analysis Program for Pipelines
The program TransAct is designed to analyze a wide range of transient responses that may have been caused by a complex combination of control actions. For example, there may be the simultaneous...
Detecting the Twin Vortex Draft Tube Surge
Experiments were performed to investigate a twin vortex draft tube surge in a homologous model and the prototype 700-MW turbines installed at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's...
On The Application of Artificial Viscosity in Computational Hydraulics
Artificial viscosity is a particular kind of truncation error that is either implicity present or explicitly added to the finite difference schemes. It is shown that the method of lines...
Access Floor Response Spectra for Equipment Line-Ups in Telecommunications Central Offices
Modern telecommunications central offices very often utilize access floors to support equipment line-ups. An analytical study was carried out to study the seismic response of equipment...
Earthquake Response of Liquid-Filled Pipeline at Finite Depth Below Ground Surface
This paper deals with the problem of earthquake response analysis of pipelines, empty or fully filled with liquid and buried at a finite depth below the ground surface. Emphasis is placed...
The Effects of Runway Roughness on Aircraft Fatigue Life
A computer code developed within the Flight Dynamics Directorate of the Wright Laboratory was used to simulate the dynamic response of heavy aircraft operating on runways with various...
Fully Nonlienar Models to Simulate Structural Response to Wind Loading
The paper summarizes some results of the analyses of two tall broadcasting towers, obtained by means of a specially developed numerical procedure taking into account all relevant nonlinear...
Global Damage Indices and Nonlinear Structural Response
Damage indices based on equivalent linear parameters have been proposed for the analysis of global seismic damage. The analysis of shaking table experiments and strong motion records has...
Seismic Response of Structures and Reliability Design
This paper develops a modified SRSS Method which allows a designer to select the reliability that he wishes to realize in each of the various elements of a given structure subjected to...
Safety Improvement of Earthquake Loaded Structures Application of Semi-Active Control in Multi-Storey Buildings
This paper presents the studies for development of a new concept of aseismic design of structures. Basis of that engineering will be a structural optimization including elastic supported...
Nonlinear Dynamic Response of Industrial R/C Chimneys
Gust response factors (GRF) based on nonlinear dynamic analysis including the P? effect are calculated. All sample structures analyzed show clearly that, for wind speeds exceeding the...
Reduction of First Excursion Probability of Nonlinear Secondary System
This paper deals with reduction of first excursion probability of nonlinear secondary system subjected to seismic excitations. Especially, gap and friction characteristics are considered...
Bifurcations in Stochastic Systems?A Generalized Hermite Analysis
Ito calculus and Markov theory are powerful tools to investigate nonlinear dynamic systems. Consequently, we need an extended experience to solve Fokker-Planck equations. In a more recent...
Consideration of Non-Gaussian Hysteretic Response Properties of MDOF-Systems by Use of Equivalent Linearization
The stationary stochastic response of nonlinear MDOF-systems is analysed by equivalent linearization (EQL). Non-Gaussian properties of the state vector y are taken into account by utilizing...
Detection of System Nonlinearity
A method for detection of linear/nonlinear characteristics of mechanical systems excited by stationary Gaussian processes is presented. Linear systems under consideration show always a...
Probabilistic Analysis of Structures Composed of Path Dependent Materials
A procedure is outlined for calculating the time-evolving CDF's (cumulative probability distribution functions) of structural response variables for cases in which the structure's...
Pipeline Leak Detection and Location
A real time pipeline leak detection and location system has been developed. This system consists of a numerical model for transient flow, two sets of pressure and flow measurement equipment,...
Hydrologic Characterization of Faults and Other Potentially Conductive Geologic Features in the Unsaturated Zone
The capability of characterizing near-vertical faults and other potentially highly conductive geologic features in the vicinity of a high-level-waste repository is of great importance...
Applications of Probability Matrix Methods for Texas Reservoirs
Probability matrix methods are a class of procedures which were generally developed from P.A.P. Moran's Theory of Storage. In essence, probability matrix methods are a means...
Chaotic Characteristics of Snowmelt Runoff: A Preliminary Study
Chaos, the study of nonlinear dynamic systems, offers a way of observing order in systems previously thought to be random. In this study, we analyze snowmelt runoff from a small watershed...
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