Quality assessment of stiffness and load-carrying capacity composite connections is great importance when it comes to designing timber–concrete structures. The new European regulation intended explicitly for structures has made a significant contribution this field, considering that until today there was no adequate design standard. Due the proposed general expressions determining with dowel-ty...

The tire is the only part that connects vehicle and road surface. Many important properties of vehicles are related to mechanical tires, such as handling stability, braking safety, vertical vibration characteristics, so on. Although a great deal research on dynamics has been completed, mainly focusing steady-state force moment well linear unsteady less conducted nonlinear especially when load c...

Stress transmission in realistic granular media often occurs under external load and the presence of boundary slip. We demonstrate how shear strain is localized a split-bottom Couette cell with smooth walls subject to confining pressure.

Placing column lap-splice in the locations of possible nonlinear deformation may adversely affect the structures response to strong ground motions. Localization of damage in splice zone may change the structural response and prevent the load redistribution and development of a uniform pattern of nonlinear excursions among the various members. Validated by existing laboratory experiments, this s...

Sequences of dynamic instabilities are analyzed for a single degree of freedom elastic system which slides along a surface having frictional resistance depending on slip rate and slip rate history, in the manner of Dieterich, Ruina and others. The system is represented as a rigid block in contact with a fixed surface and having a spring attached to it whose opposite end is forced to move at a u...

Slip strengths of hai basal, hai prism, and hc+ai pyramidal systems in commercially pure zirconium have been determined using micro-cantilever testing. A range of single crystal cantilevers 0.5 lm to 10 lm wide, oriented for single slip were prepared using focused ion beam (FIB) machining and subsequently deflected using a nanoindenter. The critical resolved shear stress (scrss) was found by fi...

The paper discusses the different possible techniques to self excite the slip ring induction machine working as self excited induction generator. The generated voltage due to self excitation is initiated and sustained with constant value of power capacitors connected across the stator windings. Attention is focused on the influence of different techniques on generator voltage and output power c...