Image credit: Merchant Navy Decoded — Propeller of Ship Walk along any harbor dry dock and you will notice that ship propellers almost always have between three and six blades, with four and five being the most common for merchant vessels. The blade count is… Read more
Structures subjected to random vibration environments are routinely evaluated for stress using the von Mises criterion, which condenses the full multiaxial stress state into a single scalar suited for comparison against a yield or fatigue allowable. But von Mises stress is a nonlinear function of… Read more
VibrationData · Aviation HistoryT. Irvine · 11 Jul 1926 + 100 The “Tin Goose” convinced America that flying was safe. Nobody said anything about comfortable — a case study in excitation, transmission, and radiation. TypeFord 5-AT Engines3 × P&W Wasp R-1340, 420 hp DriveDirect —… Read more
Photograph taken at a seaside retaining wall in Madeira, Portugal, July 2026. The bolt and nut shown are carbon steel — heavily corroded after prolonged exposure to the Atlantic marine environment.Figure 1. Severely corroded carbon steel bolt and nut at a seaside retaining wall, Madeira,… Read more
I am going to present: Extending Steinberg’s Fatigue Analysis of Electronics Equipment to a Full Relative Displacement vs. Cycles Curve at the Dynamic Environments Workshop in El Segundo, California, June 4-6, 2013. I know that travel budgets are very tight, but I hope to meet… Read more
I had the opportunity to give the keynote speech at the workshop. Here is my presentation, which is rather non-technical. Enjoy… Dynamics Engineering: A Call to Serve – Tom