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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Prediction of Laminate Stiffness Reduction by Regression Equations for Damage Variables Obtained From the Stress-Based Variational Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Continuous fiber-reinforced materials have low strength under loads perpendicular to the fibers, and transverse cracks easily occur parallel to the fibers. Since transverse cracks cause a reduction in stiffness and strength ... -
Influence of Prestretch on Planar Indentation of Elastomers: Insights From Experiments and Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Elastomers exhibit a stiffer mechanical response and anisotropy when stretched in a specific direction, which has led to numerous applications in biomechanics, surgery, tactile sensors, and more. This study introduces a ... -
Modeling Magneto-Active Soft Robots in Vessels Based on Discrete Differential Geometry of Framed Curves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Cardiac arrhythmias, such as atrial fibrillation, pose significant health risks and are often treated using minimally invasive cardiac ablation. However, the limited maneuverability of mechanically driven catheters can ... -
Hamiltonian System-Based Symplectic Framework for Analytical Vibration Analysis of Microplates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The classical elasticity is inadequate for the dynamic analysis of microplates due to the size effect. This study incorporates a higher-order strain gradient theory into the Hamiltonian system-based symplectic framework ... -
Enhancement of Synchronization in Nonlinear MEMS Oscillator Based on Electrothermal Adjustment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Synchronization in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) typically encounters the impact of electrothermal phenomena, often in conjunction with piezoresistive detection or frequency tuning. However, the electrothermal ... -
Nonlinear Mechanical Properties of Irregular Architected Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Architected materials have received increasing attention due to their exotic mechanical properties including ultra-high stiffness-to-weight ratio, strength, energy absorption, and toughness. Typically, their mechanical ... -
Extraction of Mechanical Properties of Shape Memory Alloys From Instrumented Spherical Indentation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)An approach to infer mechanical properties of shape memory alloys (SMAs) from instrumented spherical indentation records of indenter tip loading force, P, versus the resultant indentation depth, h, during indentation loading ... -
Programmable Supratransmission in a Mechanical Chain with Tristable Oscillators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Supratransmission refers to a phenomenon that nonlinear medium allows large-amplitude waves to transmit energy through the band gap, which has been extensively studied in many nonlinear models. Recently, controlling ... -
High-Order Theory Approach for Debonded Sandwich Panels—Part II: Energy Release Rate and Mode Mixity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A novel re-formulation of the extended high-order sandwich panel theory (EHSAPT) for the case of a face/core debond was done in Part I of this two-part series of papers. This high-order theory is capable of including not ... -
High-Order Theory Approach for Debonded Sandwich Panels—Part I: Formulation and Displacement Fields
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A high-order theory is developed to model asymmetric sandwich panels with face/core debonds and to provide a solution for the energy release rate and mode mixty. This new theory is a novel re-formulation of the extended ... -
Self-Assembly of Lamellae by Elastocapillarity in the Presence of Gravity: Experiments and Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Elastocapillarity describes the self-organization of elastic structures under liquid surface forces, for applications to micro- and nanoscale self-assembly. It has recently become evident that precise prediction of ... -
Elastic Localization With Particular Reference to Tape-Springs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Many elastic systems localize under applied displacement, precipitating into regions of lower and higher strain; further displacement is accommodated by growth of the high strain region at a constant load. Such systems can ... -
Interplay Between Nucleation and Kinetics in Dynamic Twinning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this work, we apply a phase-field modeling framework to elucidate the interplay between nucleation and kinetics in the dynamic evolution of twinning interfaces. The key feature of this phase-field approach is the ability ... -
Radial Deflection of Ring-Stiffened Cylinders Under Hydrostatic Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Ring-stiffened cylinders under hydrostatic pressure have been analyzed for more than a century. The contribution of Salerno and Pulos in the fifties of the previous century can be considered as a standard that nowadays ... -
Application of J-Integral to a Random Elastic Medium
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This study investigates the use of the J-integral to compute the statistics of the energy release rate of a random elastic medium. The spatial variability of the elastic modulus is modeled as a homogeneous lognormal random ... -
Coefficient of Restitution in a Low-Velocity Normal Impact Using Elastoplastic Contact Stiffness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Elastoplastic deformation during particle impact occurs widely in many engineering applications. The material properties characterizing both the elastic and plastic behavior play an important role in particle impact. A ... -
Surface Effects Study: A Continuum Approach From Fundamental Modes to Higher Modes and Topological Polarization in Orthotropic Piezoelectric Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The primary goal of the current work is to investigate how wave propagation influences the performance of surface acoustics wave (SAW) macro- and nano-sensors. Therefore, shear horizontal (SH) waves use the surface ... -
Existence and Uniqueness of Micropolar Elastic Stoneley Waves With Sliding Contact and Formulas for the Wave Slowness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The existence of Stoneley waves propagating in two micropolar isotropic elastic half-spaces with sliding contact was considered by Tajuddin (1995, Existence of Stoneley Waves at an Unbonded Interface Between Two Micropolar ... -
Modeling the Dynamic Response of a Light-Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fiber/Baffle/Spring-Coupled System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A self-oscillating system can harness energy from the external environment to sustain its continuous motion, making it highly suitable for applications in soft robotics, military industry, energy, and other fields. This ... -
Optimizing the Sewing Position of Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters on a Three-Dimensional Deforming Heart: An Integrated Approach Using Finite Element Analysis, Deep Learning, and Theoretical Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters (FPEHs) have attracted tremendous attention due to their potential applications in the field of biomedicine, such as powering implantable devices. Despite observations in numerous ...