Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Propagation of the Fundamental Lamb Modes in Strain Stiffened Hard-Magnetic Soft Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study focuses on investigating hard-magnetic soft materials, characterized by magnetoactive polymers containing magnetically polarized particles as fillers. The research utilizes the Gent model of hyperelasticity to ... -
Three-Dimensional General Solutions of Orthorhombic Quasicrystals With Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study employs the Lur'e operator method to derive generalized solutions for orthorhombic quasicrystals, incorporating anisotropy factors as constraints. The solutions derived contain the Lekhnitskii–Hu–Nowacki and ... -
Dynamic Properties of Double Porosity/Permeability Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Understanding fluid movement in multi-pored materials is vital for energy security and physiology. For instance, shale (a geological material) and bone (a biological material) exhibit multiple pore networks. Double ... -
The Post-Buckling Behavior of a Beam Constrained by Nonlinear Springy Walls
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The post-buckling behavior of a beam that is subjected to lateral constraints is of relevance to a range of medical and engineering applications, such as endoscopic examination of internal organs, the insertion of a guidewire ... -
A Perspective on Plasticity, Dissipation and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The requirement of a non-negative dissipation rate for all possible deformation histories is generally imposed on plastic constitutive relations. This is a constraint analogous to the Coleman–Noll [Coleman, B. D., and Noll, ... -
The Axial Compressive Response of Thin, Elastic, Polygonal Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Thin-walled cylindrical shell structures are revisited with the objective of increasing the axial load-carrying capacity. By using the postbuckling reserve of rectangular plates, polygonal shells are studied, which combines ... -
Dependence of Critical Stress Intensity Factor on Crack Depth From the Loading Boundary of Crystalline Silicon
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In the present work, an atomistic scale investigation is done on crystalline silicon to understand the effect of crack depth from the loading (pulling) boundary on the critical near-tip state of stress. For various depths ... -
Chiral Standing Spin Waves and Unidirectional Waves of Odd Elastic Cylindrical Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Rotating waves can be observed in structures with periodic conditions, such as cylinders and spheres. Compared with traveling waves and standing waves, rotating waves have received less attention. In this paper, an odd ... -
Dynamic Behaviors of Delaminated Nanofilms Partly Bonded on Substrates With Sub-Nanoscale van der Waals Dynamic Boundaries
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Dynamic behaviors of delaminated nanofilms on substrates are universal and essential phenomena in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Van der Waals (vdWs) interactions play an important role in the dynamic behaviors of ... -
Multistable States and Snap-Through Instabilities in an Interconnected Dielectric Elastomer Actuators System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Snap-through instabilities in single and interconnected dielectric elastomer actuators have demonstrated their potential in enabling many functionalities such as large deformation, high-speed actuation, and enhanced flowrates ... -
Design of Porous Partition Elastomer Substrates for the Island–Bridge Structures in Stretchable Inorganic Electronics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Stretchable inorganic electronics have been of growing interest over the past decades due to their various attractive potential applications. The island–bridge structure is the most widely used structural design, where ... -
Unequal-Biaxial Taut States of Electro-Active Polymeric Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Existing studies on wrinkling, an instability phenomenon commonly observed on electro-active polymers (EAP), have largely ignored the unequal-biaxial taut states, focusing instead on the equal-biaxial deformations of such ... -
The Ductile/Brittle Transition for Materials Failure—Atomic Scale to Macroscopic Scale
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This work is the continuation and completion to that initiated in the studies by Christensen (2022, “Perspective on the Bond Bending and Bond Stretching Effects of the Atomic Scale and Their Relationship to Ductile Versus ... -
Continuous Transport of a Nanoparticle on a Solid Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Long-distance transport of a nanoparticle on a solid surface remains a challenge in nanotechnology. Here, we design a nanoscale motor device for continuously transporting a nanoparticle on a beam surface. The device is ... -
A Theoretical Analysis for Arbitrary Residual Stress of Thin Film/Substrate System With Nonnegligible Film Thickness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Stoney formula is widely used in advanced devices to estimate the residual stress of thin film/substrate system by measuring surface curvature. Many hypotheses including that thin film thickness is ignored are required, ... -
Overview of Computational Methods to Predict Flutter in Aircraft
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Aeroelastic flutter is a dynamically complex phenomenon that has adverse and unstable effects on elastic structures. It is crucial to better predict the phenomenon of flutter within the scope of aircraft structures to ... -
Curvature-Matching Mechanics in Skin-Based Bioelectronics to Minimize Interfacial Stresses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)A geometrical and mechanical design strategy is proposed for bioelectronics to improve wearability and comfort by reducing the magnitude of interfacial stresses and ensuring that the spatial stress distributions are below ... -
Determination of Nonstationary Stochastic Response of Linear Oscillators With Fractional Derivative Elements of Rational Order
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this paper, a technique is developed for determining the nonstationary response statistics of linear oscillators endowed with fractional derivative elements. Notably, fractional operators are particularly effective in ... -
Uncoupling of Linear Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Damped Gyroscopic Potential Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper deals with the uncoupling of linear damped multi-degree-of-freedom gyroscopic potential systems in which the damping is taken to have a specifically chosen form. Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained ... -
Fast Optimal Design of Shell-Graded-Infill Structures With Explicit Boundary by a Hybrid MMC-AABH Plus Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this study, a hybrid MMC-AABH plus approach is developed for the fast optimal design of shell-graded-infill structures. The key idea is to use a proper description about the graded microstructural infill and the coating ...