...J. A. Cordes; J. Lee; T. L. Myers; G. Hader; L. Reinhardt; C. Kessler; N. Gray; M. A. Guevara The U.S. Army uses several types of tests to increase the reliability of gun-fired munitions. Systems, subsystems, and components are gun fired to assess reliability. When failures are found, root-cause...

...Isaac Elishakoff; Lova Andriamasy; Maurice Lemaire This study investigates the combined effect of randomness in initial geometric imperfections and the applied loading on the reliability of axially compressed cylindrical shells. In order to gain insight we consider simplest possible case when both...

...Fei Qin; Tong An; Na Chen As traditional lead-based solders are banned and replaced by lead-free solders, the drop impact reliability is becoming increasingly crucial because there is little understanding of mechanical behaviors of these lead-free solders at high strain rates. In this paper...

...Daniil Iourtchenko; Eirik Mo; Arvid Naess This paper presents a first passage type reliability analysis of strongly nonlinear stochastic single-degree-of-freedom systems. Specifically, the systems considered are a dry friction system, a stiffness controlled system, an inertia controlled system...

...I. Chasiotis; S. W. Cho; K. Jonnalagadda The fracture behavior of polycrystalline silicon in the presence of atomically sharp cracks is important in the determination of the mechanical reliability of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) components. The mode-I critical stress intensity factor...

...S. Candan; I. Elishakoff, Mem. ASME, An infinite number of closed-form solutions is reported for a deterministically or stochastically nonhomogeneous beam, for both natural frequencies and reliabilities, for specialized cases. These solutions may prove useful as benchmark solutions. Numerical...