This paper investigates the acoustic performance of a reactive silencer using Boundary Element Method analysis and experimental techniques. This analysis addresses a research topic of major interest today on how to reduce ...

Viscoelastic systems embedded in structures such as bridges are subject to various dynamic loading from traffic. A dynamic study of these structures requires more accurate definition of disturbance function parameters: ...

Coandă effect is a well-known fluid mechanics phenomenon in which a jet flow attaches itself to a nearby surface and remains attached even when the surface bends away from the initial jet direction and the jet is deflected ...

In recent years, much attention has been paid to the research and development of structural control techniques with particular emphasis on alleviation of wind and seismic responses of structures. Structural control in civil ...

This paper studies the whole-body vibration in trains which constitutes one aspect of the physical environment that can cause discomfort to passengers. Modern methods of assessment use digital techniques. Accelerometers ...

This paper describes a method of determining the cross section arrows and rotations of a straight unsupported bar subjected to bending stress. The straight bar is in a state of static balance while subjected to external ...

This paper proposes an approach of the experimental study of the dynamics of a reinforced concrete bridge made by a number of twenty U beams and beared by eighty identical neoprene supports (four bearings for each concrete ...

This paper is a part of a group of papers which deal with the changes due to the oil - air mixture into the hydraulic actuating systems. The undissolved air into the hydraulic agent of technological equipment actuating ...

This study presents the results of theoretical and experimental researches and numerical modeling for some composite material structures of neoprene used to manufacture the viscous-elastic supports of the technological ...