Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Origami With Rotational Symmetry: A Review on Their Mechanics and Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Origami has emerged as a powerful mechanism for designing functional foldable and deployable structures. Among various origami patterns, a large class of origami exhibits rotational symmetry, which possesses the advantages ... -
Review of the Basic Elastic Mechanical Properties and Their Realignment to Establish Ductile Versus Brittle Failure Behaviors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The underlying formalism of isotropic elasticity theory is shown to benefit from a review and reexamination of its structure thereby yielding a realignment of the basic moduli type properties. When this is accomplished the ... -
Thermomechanical Constitutive Models of Shape Memory Polymers and Their Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Shape memory polymers (SMPs) and SMP composites (SMPCs) have been widely employed in several fields and exhibit excellent selfactuation, deformation, and selfadaption. Establishing reasonable constitutive models is vital ... -
A Review of Techniques for Measuring the Biot Coefficient and Other Effective Stress Parameters for FluidSaturated Rocks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Predicting the behavior of a saturated rock with variations in pore fluid pressure during geoenergy production and storage, deep geological disposal of nuclear wastes, etc. with skeletal mechanical behavior in the linear ... -
Models for the Interplay of Mechanics, Electrochemistry, Thermodynamics, and Kinetics in LithiumIon Batteries
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)We review a broad range of topics related to the interplay of electrochemistry and mechanics in all solidstate batteries. The modeling frameworks that exist in the literature are varied in terms of their sophistication and ... -
Deformation and Stresses During Alkali Metal Alloying/Dealloying of SnBased Electrodes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Enhancement of energy density and safety aspects of Liion cells necessitate the usage of “alloying reaction”based anode materials in lieu of the presently used intercalationbased graphitic carbon. This becomes even more ... -
MechanicsDriven Anode Material Failure in Battery Safety and Capacity Deterioration Issues: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Highcapacity anodes, such as Si, have attracted tremendous research interest over the last two decades because of the requirement for the high energy density of nextgeneration lithiumion batteries (LIBs). The mechanical ... -
Shear Band Control for Improved StrengthDuctility Synergy in Metallic Glasses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Aside from ultrahigh strength and elasticity, metallic glasses (MGs) possess a number of favorable properties. However, their lack of dislocation based plastic deformation mechanisms in crystalline metals and the resulting ... -
Recent Advances in Wake Dynamics and Active Drag Reduction of Simple Automotive Bodies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This is a compendium of recent progresses in the development of wake dynamics and active drag reduction (DR) of threedimensional (3D) simple automotive models, largely focused on the generic Ahmed body. It covers our new ... -
Fatigue of Shape Memory Alloys With Emphasis on Additively Manufactured NiTi Components
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are often used in applications involving time-varying loads. Under such conditions, fatigue leading to possible fracture is a paramount cause of failure, which has been extensively investigated ... -
Hierarchical Biomechanics: Concepts, Bone as Prominent Example, and Perspectives Beyond
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The main motivation for “hierarchical biomechanics” is that the wide variability of mechanical properties encountered at the macroscopic scale may be traced back to just a few “universal” or invariant mechanical properties ... -
A Review on Origami Simulations: From Kinematics, To Mechanics, Toward Multiphysics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Origami-inspired systems are attractive for creating structures and devices with tunable properties, multiple functionalities, high-ratio packaging capabilities, easy fabrication, and many other advantageous properties. ... -
Discussion of “Ghaednia, H., Wang, X., Saha, S., Xu, Y., Sharma, A., & Jackson, R. L. (2017). A Review of Elastic–Plastic Contact Mechanics. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 69(6).”
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)It has been 5 years since this review of elastic-plastic contact mechanics was published. The area still remains very active, and many advancements have been made since then. This discussion summarizes these advances and ... -
A State-of-the-Art Review on Hemming: A Materials Processing Technology for Mechanical Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Hemming is a material processing technology widely used in major sectors such as automotive and aerospace industries. As a mechanical joining process, hemming is applied to sheet metal components to build structural ... -
Design of Acoustic/Elastic Phase Gradient Metasurfaces: Principles, Functional Elements, Tunability, and Coding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Acoustic/elastic metasurfaces as a kind of two-dimensional metamaterials are of subwavelength thickness and show remarkable ability of acoustic/elastic wave manipulation. They have potential applications in various fields ... -
Constant Torque Mechanisms: A Survey
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This work gives an overview of all types of constant torque mechanisms (CTMs) based on both function and structure. Based on their architecture, they can be divided into five distinct categories, which all have their ... -
Free-Edge Effects in Composite Laminates—A Review of Recent Developments 2005–2020
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The design and analysis of composite structures in the form of layered plates or shells is often driven by stress concentration phenomena that occur due to geometric or material discontinuities. One prominent example is ... -
Fiber- and Particle-Reinforced Composite Materials With the Gurtin–Murdoch and Steigmann–Ogden Surface Energy Endowed Interfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Modern advances in material science and surface chemistry lead to creation of composite materials with enhanced mechanical, thermal, and other properties. It is now widely accepted that the enhancements are achieved due ... -
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 ... -
Evolution of the Laser-Induced Spallation Technique in Film Adhesion Measurement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Laser-induced spallation is a process in which a stress wave generated from a rapid, high-energy laser pulse initiates the ejection of surface material opposite the surface of laser impingement. Through knowledge of the ...