Allocation of construction risks between clients and their contractors has a significant impact on the total construction costs. This paper presents a system dynamics (SD)-based approach for quantitative risk allocation. Using the proposed SD based approach, all the factors affecting the risk allocation process are modeled. The contractor’s defensive strategies against the one-sided risk alloca...

Sommerfeld effect concerns the non-linear jump phenomena induced due to the influence of the unbalance response on a non-ideal drive around the critical speed of the excited structure. In this work, we study the influence of external and internal dampings and gyroscopic forces on the Sommerfeld effect in rotationally symmetric planar dynamical systems. The rotational symmetry assumption allows ...

in this paper a new form of the homptopy perturbation method is used for solving oscillator differential equation, which yields the maclaurin series of the exact solution. nonlinear vibration problems and differential equation oscillations have crucial importance in all areas of science and engineering. these equations equip a significant mathematical model for dynamical systems. the accuracy o...

in this article, dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid (csf) was studied, using computational fluid dynamics. using mri images of two special cases, a 2-dimensional model of the ventricular system was made. csf velocity and pressure distribution in ventricular system have high importance since the flow pattern of this liquid has an important effect on intracranial pressure, i.e., icp, which has a...

joint flexibility is a very important factor to consider in the controller design for robot manipulators if high performance is expected. most of the research works on control of flexible-joint robots in literature have ignored the actuator dynamics to avoid complexity in controller design. the problem of designing nonlinear controller for a class of single-link flexible-joint robot manipulator...