One can safely claim that not one single surface roughness parameter, in terms of completely characterizing a surface, can be exhaustive. This study is both an experimental and theoretical study of characterizing surface ...

The exploration and production of oil at offshore locations is extending into ever increasing water depths. To exploit this resource in water depths in excess of 300 meters, a new class of offshore structures called compliant ...

The objective of this research is to develop finite elements and iterative techniques for numerical solution of linear and nonlinear beam-on-foundation problems encountered in structural engineering. Although closed-form ...

This dissertation consists of four parts. The first part deals with the response of liquid storage tanks to a vertical component of ground motion. Galerkin's method is used to solve this problem approximately, and its ...

Response nonnormality is investigated for a yielding primary structure and a linear secondary system (P-S) subjected to a normally distributed ground acceleration. The nonlinearity considered is bilinear hysteretic (BLH) ...

This dissertation presents a comprehensive study of the dynamic response of storage tanks containing high-level radioactive wastes in nuclear facilities. Of the many issues that are peculiar to these systems, four important ...

The studies reported herein are motivated by the need to gain improved understanding of the response to earthquakes of deeply embedded and underground cylindrical tanks storing nuclear wastes, and develop rational but ...