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A Tutorial on the Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of the Electromechanical Behaviour of Soft Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1/23/2023 )Soft materials, such as liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, granular materials, and most soft biological materials, play an important role in our daily lives. From a mechanical viewpoint, soft materials can easily ... -
Structural Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)While much of the linear theory of structural dynamics has been codified in numerous computer software, important problems remain such as inverse methods (modal synthesis or system identification) ... -
Fracture Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Fracture mechanics is an active research field that is currently advancing on many fronts. This appraisal of research trends and opportunities notes the promising developments of nonlinear fracture ... -
Structural Systems for Elevated Temperatures and Hostile Environments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)The demand on load-carrying structural systems for increased operating temperatures in hostile environments has led to the development of new metallic alloys and non-metallic materials. Because ... -
Special Issue on Solid Mechanics: Research Trends and Opportunities
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Stress Wave Propagation, Dynamic Material Response, and Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Stress wave propagation is of fundamental importance in modern technology because it provides the primary means for the nondestructive examination of defects and in-homogeneities in opaque materials ... -
Experimental Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Mechanical failure of machine parts, structures, and microelectronic components has a strong negative impact on the safety, security, and productivity of our people. Prevention of these failures ... -
Mechanics of Geological Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Needed advances in various areas of energy resource recovery, underground construction, earthquake hazard reduction, and conventional and nuclear defense depend critically on the development of ... -
Mechanics of Electronic and Electromechanical Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Problems involving the interaction of electromagnetic material effects and forces with stresses, deformations, and dynamics span a wide spectrum from thermal strain problems in microelectronic chips ... -
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)New discoveries have been made recently about the nature of complex motions in nonlinear dynamics. These new concepts are changing many of the ideas about dynamical systems in physics and in ... -
Biomechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Mechanics is as relevant to living organisms as to conventional engineering, and engineers are making contributions to the understanding of physiology, pathology, cell biology, as well as to the ... -
Applied Mechanics Opportunities for Advanced Manufacturing Technology
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Metal Plasticity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Advances in metal forming, lifetime of turbine blades, load carrying capacity of metal structures, armor penetration, and fracture resistance of structural metals all rely on improved understanding ... -
Polymers and Viscoelasticity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)The mechanics of polymers offers a variety of emerging technical problems ranging from basic properties characterization to simulation of complex manufacturing operations. Of particular importance ... -
Processing and Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)The general problems associated with the mechanics of forming processes are discussed. Particular topics include: (i) processing of electronic devices; (ii) flexible robotic systems; (iii) manufacturing ... -
Energy Release Protection for Pressurized Systems. Part I: Review of Studies into Blast and Fragmentation
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Foundations of Solid Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Solid mechanics is a basic discipline which supports much of the practice of mechanical and civil engineering, and contributes significantly to other engineering and scientific disciplines. Research ... -
Reflections on the Theory of Elastic Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)We depart from a three-dimensional statement of the problem of small bending of elastic plates, for a survey of approximate two-dimensional theories, beginning with Kirchhoff’s fourth-order ... -
Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Fiber-reinforced composite materials offer considerable performance advantages over conventional materials. New fiber developments place a premium upon understanding the mechanical interactions between ... -
Computational Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1985)Computational methods play a key role in solid mechanics, as a way of modelling fundamental aspects of mechanical behavior, as a vehicle for transferring this improved modelling capability into ...