Journal of Engineering Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Efficient Method for Simulating Nonstationary and Non-Gaussian Stochastic Ground Motion with Known Time-Varying Statistical Moments
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The identification of a suitable transformation model and the calculation of correlation coefficients constitute essential steps in the simulation a nonstationary and non-Gaussian stochastic process. For stochastic ground ... -
A State-Space Method for Vibration of Double-Beam Systems with Variable Cross Sections
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)In this paper, a state-space method for double-beam systems with variable cross sections is developed, making it possible to calculate the transverse vibration of the double-beams accurately and effectively. Due to the ... -
Effect of Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicles on Tire–Pavement Contact Forces
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Electric vehicles offer higher acceleration than conventional internal combustion engines due to larger engine torque. The design and placement of battery packs in heavy-duty electric vehicles are still being optimized, ... -
Dynamic Response of Poroelastic Soil Adjacent to an Axially Vibrating Pile
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Understanding the dynamic behavior of poroelastic soil adjacent to an axially vibrating pile is crucial to the seismic design and vibration reduction of various geotechnical engineering projects; however, few analytical ... -
Dynamic Behavior of Interface Cracks in 1D Hexagonal Piezoelectric Quasicrystal Coating–Substrate Structures Subjected to Plane Waves
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The study of elastic wave scattering is crucial for nondestructive testing, quality assurance, and failure prevention of quasicrystal (QC) structures. In the present paper, the dynamic behavior of an interface crack in ... -
A Rate-Independent Phenomenological Model for the Characterization of Pressurized Sand Dampers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study presents the mathematical characterization of the recently developed pressurized sand damper (PSD) in which a steel sphere or bolt is moving within a cylindrical tube filled with sand under pressure. The ... -
Dislocation Emission Model of Kinked Cracks in Aluminum Crystal under the Condition of Hydrogen Filling
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Based on the method of continuous distribution of dislocations and relevant theories of fracture mechanics, the effect of the distribution of hydrogen atoms at the crack tip (CT) on the emission of dislocations from kinked ... -
Diffraction of Magnetoelastic Plane Waves through a Rigid Strip in an Orthotropic Medium: An Analytical Approach
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)The present study provides the analytical solution for magnetoelastic plane-wave diffraction by a rigid strip in an infinite orthotropic medium. The mathematical formulation of the considered model involves a mixed boundary ... -
Deflection Field Identification of Bridges under Goal Load Based on Mode Expansion Method with Sparse Test Points
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A mode expansion method combined with a sparse point impact test strategy that establishes the relationship between the sparse flexibility matrix and the static response field of a bridge under a distributed load is proposed ... -
Crashworthiness of Multicellular Tubes under Axial Compression Based on Polygonal Origami Folding
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)Inspired by the origami process, a multicellular tube formed by origami folding based on polygons was designed. First, the accuracy of the finite-element model was verified by experiments; then, under the conditions of the ... -
Convergence and Optimal Parameters of the Inertial Relaxed Lattice Boltzmann Method in Fluid and Solid Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces an accelerated lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) tailored for both fluid and solid simulations, utilizing the inertial relaxed Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (IR-BGK) operator, referred to as IR-LBM. The Navier-Stokes ... -
A New Insight into the Paradoxical Integral and Differential Constitutive Relations of Eringen Nonlocal Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Using the Eringen nonlocal theory (ENT), the integral constitutive relation (ICR) can be transformed into a corresponding differential constitutive relation (DCR). The inequivalence and equivalence between ICR and DCR have ... -
Constitutive Relation for Prolate Pin–Reinforced Transversely Isotropic Media for Additive Manufacturing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Layered composites are found in the natural environment; they have inspired a variety of engineering structures and become critical to lightweight transportation vehicles. Layered composites are strong within layers but ... -
Buckling of Plates with Arbitrary Geometric Configurations via the Discrete Ritz Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)A discrete Ritz method (DRM) is presented for buckling analysis of plates with arbitrary geometric configurations employing the concept of representing structural energy with global variable stiffness. In the DRM approach, ... -
A Gradient-Enhanced Thermo-Poro-Elastoplastic Finite-Element Model for Stimulated Volume Evolution in Porous Media
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper is aimed at presenting a mixed finite-element model that is capable of dealing with nonlinear coupled thermo-poro-elastoplastic simulations of porous media. The model benefits from the generalized Biot theory ... -
Atomistic-Informed and Machine Learning–Assisted Crystal Plasticity Modeling for Material Interfaces
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper presents a novel methodology that addresses the limited predictive capability of the existing crystal plasticity (CP) method in interfaces modeling. Our approach incorporates interfacial parameters generated ... -
Three-Variate Nonstationary Probabilistic Wind Field Modeling with Time-Varying Spatial Coherence via the NUFFT-Enhanced Stochastic Wave–Based Spectral Representation Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)To conduct accurate reliability analysis of complex wind-sensitive structures, it is crucial to model three-variate (3V) nonstationary probabilistic turbulences considering two-point time-varying spatial coherence and ... -
Three-Dimensional Mesomechanical Complex Modulus Prediction for Asphalt Mortar Considering Conjunctive Shell Mechanism of Interface Transition Zones and Properties of Coarse Mastic
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Asphalt mortar is a mixture of asphalt mastic and fine aggregates (<2.36 mm) in asphalt concrete. Accurately predicting the complex modulus of asphalt mortar is essential to further estimating asphalt concrete’s ... -
Theoretical Model of Seismic Fracture Prediction for Low-Yield-Point Steel LYP225 and Its Validation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The fracture of energy-dissipation components with low-yield-point (LYP) steels under seismic action may cause the progressive collapse of the structures. Therefore, it is essential to predict the fracture of various LYP ... -
Temporal Homogenization Modeling of Viscoelastic Asphalt Concretes and Pavement Structures under Large Numbers of Load Cycles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024)This paper aims to introduce a highly efficient computational model compared to the current cycle-by-cycle simulation strategy to compute the viscoelastic responses of asphalt concretes and pavement structures under large ...