Transactions of the Ninth Conference of Army Mathematicians Conducted at Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York, 5-6 June 1963.

摘要

Contents: Some Experiences with Several Procedures for Obtaining Nonlinear Least Squares' Fits; On the Numerical Solution of Linear Difference Equations with Auxiliary Conditions at Both Ends; Steady-State Temperatures in a Slab Containing a Plane Insulating Filament, Part I: Formulation and Solution by Conformal Mapping; Part II: Solution to the Infinite System by Numerical Induction; Mathematical Model for Analyzing Antimissile Defense Systems; Improved Target Model for Lethal Areas Produced by Cylindrical and Spherical Rounds; A Quadrature Formula for Certain Functions of More than One Variable; The Duffing Problem Completed; Some Aspects of Non-linear Viscoelasticity; Plane Plastic Deformation of Soils; A Semi-Infinite Plate on an Elastic Foundation; A Reliability Model and a Method for Estimating Its Reliability; Optimum Tolerance Design; Research and Development is a Markov Chain; The Fluid Motion within a Spinning Cylinder; Alpha Classification of Microfibers and Couple Stresses; Thin Cylindrical Shells Under Local Axial Loadings; Rectangular Tensile Sheet with Edge Cracks; A Sturm-Liouville Problem Associated with the Perturbation Velocity Field in a Rotating Cylindrical Mass of Fluid, the Angular Velocity of which is a Function of the Radius R; Dynamic Formulation of the Coefficient of Restitution; The Propagation of Shock Waves through Soil Analytical Methods and Problems; Transformation from Hyperbolic Coordinates to Rectangular UTM.