Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Multistep and Elastically Stable Mechanical Metamaterials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Materials and structures with tunable mechanical properties are essential for numerous applications. However, constructing such structures poses a great challenge since it is normally very complicated to change the properties ... -
Uncovering Pattern-Transformable Soft Granular Crystals Induced by Microscopic Instability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Upon compression, some soft granular crystals undergo pattern transformation. Recent studies have unveiled that the underlying mechanism of this transformation is closely tied to microscopic instability, resulting in ... -
Frictional Slippage of Annular Elastomeric Disks Compressed Between Rigid Platens
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Compression of compressible, linearly elastic, annular disks by flat rigid platens is analyzed. Coulomb (Amonton) friction is assumed to act at the interfaces between the disk and the platens. Slip may occur in an outer ... -
Master Curves for Poroelastic Spherical Indentation With Step Displacement Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Theoretical and numerical analyses are conducted to rigorously construct master curves that can be used for interpretation of displacement-controlled poroelastic spherical indentation test. A fully coupled poroelastic ... -
Topology Optimization of Hard-Magnetic Soft Phononic Structures for Wide Magnetically Tunable Band Gaps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Hard-magnetic soft materials, which exhibit finite deformation under magnetic loading, have emerged as a promising class of soft active materials for the development of phononic structures with tunable elastic wave band ... -
Intriguing Brownian Diffusivity Characteristics of Complex Nanoparticles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article reveals how apparently similar looking nanoparticles with same size, shape, and mass may exhibit widely varying Brownian diffusivity due to inherent features of nanoscale dynamics. Such variabilities may, in ... -
Exploring Nano-Scale Scratching Induced Tribological Behavior of Graphene Engineered AlCoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Motivated by the recent discoveries concerning the exceptional surface engineering capabilities offered by high-entropy alloys (HEAs), this article investigates the tribological behavior of pristine and graphene nano-engineered ... -
Structural Assessment of Architected Material Using the Redundancy Matrix and Experimental Testing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper presents the integration of a numerical structural model based on the redundancy matrix and experimental results of multi-layered randomized architected materials (MLRAM). It presents a combination of the ... -
Poroelastic and Viscoelastic Hallmarks in the Response of Porous and Transversely Isotropic Beams to Harmonic Excitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A general solution to harmonic excitation of beam-shaped specimens made from porous, fluid-saturated, transversely isotropic, and viscoelastic materials is developed and presented. The solution draws from Biot's theory of ... -
Ellipsoidal Inclusions in Flexoelectric Solids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The flexoelectric effect, characterized by the induction of electric polarization by strain gradients, exhibits a remarkable size dependence. This makes flexoelectricity highly relevant for nanoscale electromechanical ... -
Axisymmetric Vibration of Inviscid Compressible Fluid-Filled Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Tube
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Driven by the versatility and adaptability of next-generation soft robotic devices, investigating the vibrational behavior under fluid-electromechanical coupling represented by a soft dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) ... -
Scalar Field Prediction on Meshes Using Interpolated Multiresolution Convolutional Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Scalar fields, such as stress or temperature fields, are often calculated in shape optimization and design problems in engineering. For complex problems where shapes have varying topology and cannot be parametrized, ... -
Self-Oscillation of a Liquid Crystal Elastomer String-Mass System Under Constant Gradient Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Recent experiments have found that a fiber-mass system can self-oscillate along the vertical direction under a non-uniform temperature field, which necessitates significant vertical space. To address the challenge in ... -
2022 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Lecture: A Trip the Light FantasticPresented at the ASME Applied Mechanics Division Banquet, Columbus, OH, November 2, 2022.
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Michael Albert SuttonMichael Albert Sutton Friends, colleagues, and family:First, I want to express my deepest appreciation to the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME for bestowing this honor, which I feel is the highest ... -
Determination of Dynamic Characteristics of Lattice Structure Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this work, dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) was applied as an algorithm for determining the natural frequency and damping ratio of viscoelastic lattice structures. The algorithm has been developed based on the Hankel ... -
Size Effect of Yielding of Particle-Reinforced Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper illustrates how particle size affects the initial yield stress of particle-reinforced composites. A formulation in a closed form is presented to demonstrate the size effect of yielding of the composites. This ... -
Post-Buckling Analysis of Arch and Serpentine Structures Under End-to-End Compression
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Arch and serpentine structures are two fundamental structural forms with significant applications in various fields. When subjected to compressive loading at both ends, these structures undergo flexural-torsional post-buckling, ... -
Erratum: “On the Analysis of Periodically Heterogenous Beams” [ASME J. Appl. Mech., 2016, 83(9), p. 091001; DOI: 10.1115/1.4033721]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This erratum corrects errors in the originally published paper.The equations listed in the original manuscript have been found to include several typographical errors that make it impossible to understand the proofs presented ... -
Resolving Absorbed Work and Generalized Inertia Forces From System Energy Equation—A Hamiltonian and Phase-Space Kinematics Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper develops a theoretical basis and a systematic process for resolving all inertia forces along generalized coordinates from the overall energy equation of a dynamical system. The theory is developed for natural ... -
Closed-Form Solutions to Continuous-Time Algebraic Riccati Equation for Second-Order Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Two closed-form methods to solve the continuous-time algebraic Riccati equation (CARE) for second-order systems in terms of the mass, damping, and stiffness matrices are presented. One method utilizes the modal transformation ...