This paper highlights several issues of the procedures nowadays adopted for the recovery of
cross-sections stress distribution within tapered thin-walled I beams. In particular …

Non-prismatic beams are widely employed in strategic structures like bridges and sport
arenas, requiring accurate analyses for a reliable and effective design. Unfortunately …

The building sector is responsible for a large portion of the global CO2e emissions. With
structural materials accounting for a large part of it, the reduction of material used in …

This publication focuses on the numerical stress prediction in case‐carburized bevel gears
and on their fatigue assessment. Four gear sets are analyzed for the common fatigue failure …

The presence of curved centroidal axis in tapered monosymmetric I-beams results in
coupling between the axial and flexural behaviours. In this paper, an extended Timoshenko …

The present paper discusses about optimal shape solution for a non-prismatic planar beam.
The proposed model is based on the standard Timoshenko kinematics hypothesis (ie …

In the last decades, a wide range of methods have been proposed for the analysis of
compliant mechanisms. In this investigation, the theory of the ellipse of elasticity is tailored to …

Nitinol stents continuously experience loadings due to pulsatile pressure, thus a given stent
design should possess an adequate fatigue strength and, at the same time, it should …

This paper presents a comparison among different flexibility models of elastic elements to be
implemented in multibody simulations of compliant mechanisms. In addition to finite-element …

Tapered beams are widely employed in efficient flexure dominated structures. In this paper,
analytical expressions are derived for the six Cauchy stress components in untwisted …