Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Defect–Defect Interactions in the Buckling of Imperfect Spherical Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)We perform numerical experiments using the finite element method (FEM) to investigate the effect of defect–defect interactions on the pressure-induced buckling of thin, elastic, spherical shells containing two dimpled ... -
On the Construction of Explicit Analytical Driving Forces for Crack Nucleation in the Phase Field Approach to Brittle Fracture With Application to Mohr–Coulomb and Drucker–Prager Strength Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)A series of recent papers have modified the classical variational phase field fracture models to successfully predict both the nucleation and propagation of cracks in brittle fracture under general loading conditions. This ... -
Adhesion of a Rigid Sphere to a Freestanding Elastic Membrane With Pre-Tension
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Adhesion between a solid sphere and a thin film is a common but crucial issue in the study of biological membranes and two-dimensional materials. To supplement quantitative knowledge of membrane adhesion, this work addresses ... -
Complex Flow Patterns in Compressible Viscoelastic Liquids: Blood Flow Through a Compliant Aorta
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In viscoelastic liquids, molecules are prone to spatial and temporal ordering. At equilibrium, the collective motions are rare events and their timespan is short. In flowing liquids, the propensity for ordering increases, ... -
Deformation-Dependent Effective Vascular Permeability of a Biological Tissue Containing Parallel Microvessels
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study describes a micromechanics model for estimating the effective vascular permeability for a biological tissue containing parallel microvessels subjected to finite deformations. The representative volume element ... -
Mechanics of Peeling Adhesives From Soft Substrates: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Understanding peeling behavior in soft materials is integral to diverse applications, from tissue engineering, wound care, and drug delivery to electronics, automotive, and aerospace equipment. These applications often ... -
Why Biological Cells Cannot Stay Spherical?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Biological cells are almost never truly spherical, even in the absence of an obvious cause that disrupts the cell’s symmetry. Using rather simple energy considerations, we show that even though all real biological cells ... -
The Resistance of Sandwich Cylinders With Density-Graded Foam Cores to Internal Blast Loadings
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The resistance of sandwich cylinders with density-graded foam cores to internal blast loadings is investigated theoretically and numerically. Four kinds of density-graded foam core are designed, such as positive, negative, ... -
A Generalized Shear Lag Model for the “Brick-Mortar” Staggered Composite With Arbitrary Soft Phase Contents
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Although the mechanical mechanisms of staggered biological composites are widely investigated, each existing model has its own application scope. In order to comprehensively characterize the mechanical properties of the ... -
Mechanical Behavior and Failure Prediction of Cylindrical Lithium-Ion Batteries Under Mechanical Abuse Using Data-Driven Machine Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Mechanical failure prediction of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can provide important maintenance information and decision-making reference in battery safety management. However, the complexity of the internal structure of ... -
Evaluating Fracture Energy Predictions Using Phase-Field and Gradient-Enhanced Damage Models for Elastomers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Recently, the phase-field method has been increasingly used for brittle fractures in soft materials like polymers, elastomers, and biological tissues. When considering finite deformations to account for the highly deformable ... -
A Minimum Potential Energy-Based Nonlocal Physics-Informed Deep Learning Method for Solid Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Although success is achieved by physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) as a deep learning solver in many fields, they face some challenges when solving solid mechanics problems. The most notable challenges include the ... -
Microplane Constitutive Model for Tension–Compression Asymmetry and Pressure-Sensitive Damage in Polymers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The multiaxial damage behavior of brittle polymers is highly complex, involving a stark tension–compression asymmetry and strong pressure sensitivity. These aspects are challenging to predict via phenomenological tensor-based ... -
Elastic Fields Around Multiple Stiff Prestressed Arcs Located on a Circle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The plane strain problem of an isotropic elastic matrix subjected to uniform far-field load and containing multiple stiff prestressed arcs located on the same circle is considered. The boundary conditions for the arcs are ... -
The Effects of Surface Tension on Spherical Oscillatory Indentation of Viscoelastic Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)The oscillatory indentation has become an attractive approach to characterizing the viscoelastic properties of soft biological solids. However, the influences of surface tension on oscillatory responses are ignored, which ... -
Sound Mitigation by Metamaterials With Low-Transmission Flat Band
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Space-coiling acoustic metamaterials dominated by the Fano resonance are being widely exploited for simultaneous control of sound isolation and air ventilation, and they usually achieve complete sound mitigation at multiple ... -
Dynamics of an Electric Field Vulnerable Morpho-Elastic Biological Membranes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This work presents the dynamic modeling and analysis of an electric field vulnerable morpho-elastic biological membranes. Such smart membranes combine electrical properties with active functionalities, creating flexible ... -
Impact of Nonlinear Viscous Damping on Strain-Mediated Domain Wall Propagation in Hexagonal Magnetostrictive Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Magnetic domain walls are promising information carriers for developing next-generation high-processing speed spintronic devices. While extensive research has been conducted on field- and current-driven domain wall propagation ... -
Data-Driven Identification of Variational Equations for Vortex-Induced Vibration Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In this study, a data-driven approach using the embedded variational principle is used to identify the variational equations of vortex-induced vibration fluid–structure interaction systems, in particular the coupling term ... -
On the Quasi-Diagonalization and Uncoupling of Gyroscopic Circulatory Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A new central result that gives the necessary and sufficient conditions for two n by n skew-symmetric matrices and one symmetric matrix to be simultaneously quasi-diagonalized by a real orthogonal congruence is proved. ...