Journal of Applied Mechanics
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EISSN:1528-9036|ISSN:0021-8936|Disc:The Journal of Applied Mechanics serves as a vehicle for the communication of original research results of permanent interest in all branches of mechanics. The majority of the papers published in the journal are full-length articles of considerable depth. Comments on published papers may be submitted in the form of discussion, which is subject to a rebuttal by the author.|Priority:12|Publisher:American Society of Mechanical Engineers|
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Artificial Intelligence and Computing for Active Metamaterial Design: A Perspective
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Mechanics of Planar Variable-Curvature Interconnects for Stretchable Electronics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Stretchable variable-curvature interconnects, such as two-dimensional spirals, offer certain advantages over widely used serpentine and horseshoe designs with constant curvatures in terms of stretchability and coverage. A ... -
The Surface and Thickness Effects on Two-Dimensional Nanocontact Behaviors of a Finite-Sized Elastic Layer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The nanoscale contact behavior of an elastic layer with a finite thickness is significantly influenced by the effects of not only surface but also layer thickness. Using the elasticity theory based on the surface energy ... -
Analytical Shear-Band Process Zone Model Incorporating Nonlinear Viscous Effects and Initial Defects
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Customized Design of Mechanical Properties for Irregular Lattice Structures With Variable In-Plane Wall Thickness
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Dynamics of a Vibro-Impact Capsule Robot Self-Propelling in the Small Intestine With Multiple Circular Folds
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Crack Face Contact Modeling is Essential to Predict Crack-Parallel Stresses
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Entropic Pressure Between Fluctuating Membranes With Surface Tension
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Entropic pressure, a longstanding topic of interest in biophysics and biomechanics, has been studied for over four decades. Similar to an ideal gas, fluctuating surfaces can generate entropic pressure through thermally ... -
A Thermomechanical Framework for the Critical Temperature in Nanotube Structural Transitions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Thermally induced structural transitions in nanotubes between cylindrical and collapsed states are central to their applications in nanotechnology. Despite extensive research, the explicit determination of the critical ... -
A Novel Approach for Computing Rigid Body Motion Using Linear Accelerations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)A novel approach is presented for computing general rigid body motion based on a few known linear accelerations. This method utilizes linear acceleration data obtained from three distinct points on the body, all within a ... -
Propagation of Contractile-Induced Displacement in Prestressed Fibrous Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The interruption of cellular interactions in biological processes such as migration, differentiation, proliferation, and wound healing could lead to conditions such as fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, brain tumors, and cancer. ... -
Combining Viscoelastic Damping and Nonlinearities to Widen the Operational Speed Range of Flutter Energy Harvesting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)We propose using viscoelastic damping with combined hardening and free-play structural nonlinearities to enhance energy harvesting performance and control vibration in a pitch and plunge airfoil with piezoelectric transduction. ... -
Mechanics of a Tunable Bistable Metamaterial With Shape Memory Polymer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Bistable metamaterials, characterized by their ability to transition between two stable configurations, find applications in the fields of morphing structures, energy harvesting systems, and bionics. Shape memory polymers ... -
Soft Electromechanical Elastomers Impervious to Instability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Soft dielectric elastomers that can exhibit extremely large deformations under the action of an electric field enable applications such as soft robotics, biomedical devices, and energy harvesting among others. A key ... -
Incremental Deformations and Bifurcation of Elastic Solids Reinforced by Fibers With Intrinsic Extensional, Flexural, and Torsional Elasticity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)We present a model for incremental deformations of an elastic solid reinforced by a single family of fibers that offer resistance to extension, flexure, and torsion. The theory is cast in the setting of small-on-large ... -
Reconstructive Martensitic Phase Transitions: Intermittency, Anti-Transformation, Plasticity, Irreversibility
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)We study the mechanics of temperature-driven reconstructive martensitic transformations in crystalline materials, within the framework of nonlinear elasticity theory. We focus on the prototypical case of the square–hexagonal ... -
A Machine Learning Optimized Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have garnered increasing attention in the field of renewable energy due to their unique advantages over traditional horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs). However, traditional VAWTs ... -
Mechanics of Curved Crease Origami: One-Degree-of-Freedom Mechanisms, Distributed Actuation by Spontaneous Curvature, and Cross-Talk Between Multiple Folds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Origami morphing, obtained with patches of piecewise smooth isometries separated by straight fold lines, is an exquisite art that has already received considerable attention in the mathematics and mechanics literature. ... -
Effective Long-Time Diffusivity of Particles of Arbitrary Shape in an External Orienting Field
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Pertaining to the motion of a rigid particle in a flow, several distinct “centers” of the rigid particle can be identified, including the geometric center (centroid), center of mass, hydrodynamic center, and center of ... -
Kirchhoff’s Analogy for a Planar Deformable Ferromagnetic Rod
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Kirchhoff’s kinetic analogy relates the equilibrium solutions of an elastic rod or strip to the motion of a spinning top. In this analogy, time is replaced by the arc length parameter in the phase portrait to determine the ...