Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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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, ... -
Closed Loop Turbulence Control: Progress and Challenges
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Closedloop turbulence control is a critical enabler of aerodynamic drag reduction, lift increase, mixing enhancement, and noise reduction. Current and future applications have epic proportion: cars, trucks, trains, airplanes, ... -
Celebrating the Centenary of Timoshenko's Study of Effects of Shear Deformation and Rotary Inertia
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This study revisits Timoshenko beam theory (TBT). It discusses at depth a more consistent and simpler governing differential equation. The socalled second spectrum is also addressed. Then, we provide the asymptotic ... -
Synthesis of Fibrous Complex Structures: Designing Microstructure to Deliver Targeted Macroscale Response
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In Mechanics, material properties are most often regarded as being given, and based on this, many technical solutions are usually conceived and constructed. However, nowadays manufacturing processes have advanced to the ... -
A Review on Bistable Composite Laminates for Morphing and Energy Harvesting
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Bistable composite laminates have received a considerable attention due to their fabulous behavior and potential for morphing and energy harvesting. A bistable or multistable laminate is a type of composite structure that ... -
The Contribution of Kawada to the Analytical Solution for the Velocity Induced by a Helical Vortex Filament
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)The basic solution for the velocity induced by helical vortex filament is well known as Hardin's solution, published in 1982. A study of early publications on helical vortices now shows that the Japanese scientist Kawada ... -
Modeling Gravity and Turbidity Currents: Computational Approaches and Challenges
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this review article, we discuss recent progress with regard to modeling gravitydriven, high Reynolds number currents, with the emphasis on depthresolving, highresolution simulations. The initial sections describe new ... -
Computational Modeling of the Female Pelvic Support Structures and Organs to Understand the Mechanism of Pelvic Organ Prolapse: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is an abnormality of the female pelvic anatomy due to events, such as multiple child births, menopause, and morbid obesity, which may lead to weakening of the pelvic floor striated muscles and ... -
Multiscale Modeling of Cardiovascular Flows for Clinical Decision Support
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Patientspecific cardiovascular simulations can provide clinicians with predictive tools, fill current gaps in clinical imaging capabilities, and contribute to the fundamental understanding of disease progression. However, ... -
Fatigue Damage Modeling Techniques for Textile Composites: Review and Comparison With Unidirectional Composite Modeling Techniques
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Composite structural parts have been successfully introduced in high performance industries. Nowadays, also lower performance, high volume production industries are looking for the application of composites in their products. ... -
Strong Formulation Finite Element Method Based on Differential Quadrature: A Survey
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A survey of several methods under the heading of strong formulation finite element method (SFEM) is presented. These approaches are distinguished from classical one, termed weak formulation finite element method (WFEM). ... -
Structure and Dynamics of Rotating Turbulence: A Review of Recent Experimental and Numerical Results
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Rotating turbulence is a fundamental phenomenon appearing in several geophysical and industrial applications. Its study benefited from major advances in the recent years, but also raised new questions. We review recent ... -
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 ... -
Instabilities of the von Kأ،rmأ،n Boundary Layer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)Research on the von Kأ،rmأ،n boundary layer extends back almost 100 years but remains a topic of active study, which continues to reveal new results; it is only now that fully nonlinear direct numerical simulations (DNS) ... -
Review of Residual Stress Modification Techniques for Extending the Fatigue Life of Metallic Aircraft Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)A major challenge for the aircraft industry in the future will be the development of effective strategies for maintaining and extending the service life of aging aircraft fleet. In this context, residualstressbased approaches ... -
Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Inglis Result: From a Single Notch to Random Surface Stress Concentration Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)We celebrate the first quantitative evidence for the stress concentration effect of flaws analyzed by Inglis. Stress concentration factor (SCF) studies have evolved ever since Inglis' 1913 result related to the problem of ... -
Simulation Methods for Guided Wave Based Structural Health Monitoring: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)This paper reviews the stateoftheart in numerical wave propagation analysis. The main focus in that regard is on guided wavebased structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. A brief introduction to SHM and SHMrelated ... -
A Simple Treatment of Constraint Forces and Constraint Moments in the Dynamics of Rigid Bodies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2015)In this expository article, a simple concise treatment of Lagrange's prescription for constraint forces and constraint moments in the dynamics of rigid bodies is presented. The treatment is suited to both Newton–Euler ... -
Delamination Under Fatigue Loads in Composite Laminates: A Review on the Observed Phenomenology and Computational Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Advanced design methodologies enable lighter and more reliable composite structures or components. However, efforts to include fatigue delamination in the simulation of composites have not yet been consolidated. Besides ... -
Analytic Methods for Stress Analysis of Two Dimensional Flat Anisotropic Plates With Notches: An Overview
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The anisotropy of composite plates often poses difficulties for stress field analysis in the presence of notches. The most common methods for these analyses are: (i) analytical means (AM), (ii) finite element analysis ...