Browsing Applied Mechanics Reviews by Title
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1955-1980: A Dynamic Quarter Century for Applied Mechanics
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A Comprehensive Review of Drop Impact Modeling on Portable Electronic Devices
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)This article is dedicated to the review of publications on drop impact analysis performed on consumer electronic devices such as cellular phones and two-way radios in the past decade. Prior ... -
A Comprehensive Review of Natural Convection in Triangular Enclosures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010)Natural convection in triangular enclosures is an important problem. It displays well the generic attributes of this class of convection, with its dependence on enclosure geometry, orientation ... -
A Concept Review of Low-Heat-Rejection Engines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1989)Insulated engines have become popular ideas with the development of new materials and material processing techniques. Several research groups have been involved and are producing needed, quality ... -
A Contemporary Review and Data-Driven Evaluation of Archard-Type Wear Laws
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Archard's Wear Law and its variants have remained fundamental to wear prediction for over 70 years, despite frequent criticism regarding their simplicity and the variability of the wear coefficient. Numerous recent sliding ... -
A Critical Review of Physical Models in High Temperature Multiphase Fluid Dynamics: Turbulent Transport and Particle-Wall Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This review article examines the last decade of studies investigating solid, molten, and liquid particle interactions with one another and with walls in heterogeneous multiphase flows. Such flows are experienced in ... -
A Finite Element Bibliography for Biomechanics (1987-1997)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This article gives a bibliographical review of the finite element method (FEM) applied to biomechanics. The bibliography at the end of the article contains references to published papers, ... -
A Global Dynamics Perspective for System Safety From Macro to Nanomechanics: Analysis, Control, and Design Engineering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The achievements occurred in nonlinear dynamics over the last 30 years entail a substantial change of perspective when dealing with vibration problems, since they are now deemed ready to meaningfully affect the analysis, ... -
A Historical Review on Dry Friction and Stick-Slip Phenomena
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This article gives a historical overview of structural and mechanical systems with friction. Friction forces between sliding surfaces arise due to complex mechanisms and lead to mathematical ... -
A historical survey of some mathematical aspects of Newtonian fluid flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2001)This article deals with a survey of the Newtonian fluid dynamics equations with some historical notes and a discussion related to the solvability of fluid flows problems. On the way, we discuss ... -
A Micromechanics-Based Model for Creep Behavior of Rock
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)Recently, various ideas on underground development have been proposed and associated technical problems have been studied. One of the issues of concern is the prediction of the long-term behavior ... -
A Panoramic Overview of the Principles and Equations of Motion of Advanced Engineering Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1998)This is a qualitative and concise review of the fundamental principles and equations of Lagrangean, or Analytical, Mechanics (AM) for discrete (or discretizable) and constrained systems; primarily ... -
A Practical Review on Linear and Nonlinear Global Approaches to Flow Instabilities
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper aims at reviewing linear and nonlinear approaches to study the stability of fluid flows. We provide a concise but self-contained exposition of the main concepts and specific numerical methods designed for global ... -
A Practical Review on Linear and Nonlinear Global Approaches to Flow Instabilities
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper aims at reviewing linear and nonlinear approaches to study the stability of fluid flows. We provide a concise but self-contained exposition of the main concepts and specific numerical methods designed for global ... -
A Retrospective on Dynamic Plasticity and Dynamic Plastic Instability
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A Review of a Few Topics in Piezoelectricity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)This is a review article on a few special topics in piezoelectricity: gradient and nonlocal theories, fully dynamic theory with Maxwell equations, piezoelectric semiconductors, and motions of ... -
A Review of Available Methods for the Assessment of Fluid Added Mass, Damping, and Stiffness With an Emphasis on Hydraulic Turbines
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Fluid added mass, damping, and stiffness are highly relevant parameters to consider when evaluating the dynamic response of a submerged structure in a fluid. The prediction of these parameters for hydraulic turbines has ... -
A Review of Available Methods for the Assessment of Fluid Added Mass, Damping, and Stiffness With an Emphasis on Hydraulic Turbines
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Fluid added mass, damping, and stiffness are highly relevant parameters to consider when evaluating the dynamic response of a submerged structure in a fluid. The prediction of these parameters for hydraulic turbines has ... -
A Review of Certain Inverse Methods for the Design of Ducts With 2- or 3-Dimensional Potential Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)This article reviews the author’s work on inverse methods of flow-field design with prescribed velocity distributions on the boundaries. Such design methods are of some importance, because these ... -
A Review of Computational Hemodynamics in Middle Cerebral Aneurysms and Rheological Models for Blood Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Cerebrovascular accidents are the third most common cause of death in developed countries. Over recent years, CFD simulations using medical imagebased anatomical vascular geometries have been shown to have great potential ...