While traumatic aortic rupture (TAR) continues to be a major cause of fatality in motor vehicle accidents, the underlying mechanisms of it are not well understood. A major step to gain an insight into this problem is to understand the mechanical behavior of aortic tissue under loading conditions that lead to the failure. Although the mechanical properties of blood vessels under physiological pr...

With dynamic loading like landing impact a distinction should be made between relatively short and long, quasistatic loading durations, and loadings the durations of which are in the order of the longest lateral period (lowest eigenfrequency) of the structure. A particular problem is to be expected under the later loadings where the interaction of loading dynamics with the dynamics of the buckl...

It is well established that certain structural buckling problems are extremely sensitive to small changes in configuration: geometric imperfections, load application, symmetry, boundary conditions, etc. This paper considers the behavior of a very shallow arch under lateral point loading, and specifically under the influence of changes in the thermal environment. In some ways the system under st...