American Journal of Botany, Vol. 91, No. 6 (Jun., 2004), pp. 789-796 (8 pages) The slender upright culms of the giant reed (Arundo donax L.) are often exposed to dynamic wind loads causing significant ...
Circadian rhythms are driven by a highly autonomous, self-sustaining circadian clock in our cells, telling us when to sleep or wake up in a 24-hour cycle. This mechanism can also be found in other ...
Shown below are three time histories for the free response of a single-DOF system with zero initial stretch in the spring and an initial velocity downward. These time histories correspond to damping ...