Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Wear Problems of High-Speed Wheel/Rail Systems: Observations, Causes, and Countermeasures in China
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Wear problems of wheel/rail systems occurring on the Chinese high-speed railway network in the last decade are summarized and explained together with the corresponding experience of treating them. Focus is placed on uneven ... -
Dynamics Modeling of Topologically Simple Parallel Kinematic Manipulators: A Geometric Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Dynamics modeling is indispensable for the design and control of dexterous parallel kinematic manipulators/machines (PKM). Various modeling approaches proposed in the literature build upon the classical formulations for ... -
A Review of Damping Models for Structures With Mechanical Joints1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In a standard design practice, it is often necessary to assemble engineered structures from individually manufactured parts. Ideally, the assembled system should perform as if the connections between the components were ... -
Design Principles and Function of Mechanical Fasteners in Nature and Technology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Probabilistic mechanical fasteners are used to provide secure, reversible, and repeatable attachments in both nature and industry. Since the first observation of this mechanism in nature, which led to the creation of ... -
Fatigue of Metallic Glasses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Metallic glasses (MGs) are often perceived as quintessential structural materials due to their superior mechanical properties such as high strength and large elastic limit. In practical applications, service conditions ... -
Tunable and Active Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of unit cells. This emerging class of ... -
Kinetostatic and Dynamic Modeling of Flexure-Based Compliant Mechanisms: A Survey
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Flexure-based compliant mechanisms are becoming increasingly promising in precision engineering, robotics, and other applications due to the excellent advantages of no friction, no backlash, no wear, and minimal requirement ... -
Buckling and Post-Buckling of Thin-Walled Composite Laminated Beams—A Review of Engineering Analysis Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Thin-walled beams made of laminated composite materials are increasingly used in any engineering branch where structural weight is one of the major aspects in the design process of load bearing structures. Quite naturally, ... -
Misalignment Compensation for Full Human-Exoskeleton Kinematic Compatibility: State of the Art and Evaluation
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The use of exoskeletons by the elderly, disabled people, heavy labor workers, and soldiers can have great social and economic benefit. However, limitations in usability are impeding the widespread adoption of exoskeletal ... -
Hamilton's Principle for Material and Nonmaterial Control Volumes Using Lagrangian and Eulerian Description of Motion
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The standard form of Hamilton's principle is only applicable to material control volumes. There exist specialized formulations of Hamilton's principle that are tailored to nonmaterial (open) control volumes. In case of ... -
A Review on Fluid-Induced Flag Vibrations
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Fluid-induced flag vibrations provide unattended, efficient, low-cost, and scalable solutions for energy harvesting to power distributed wireless sensor nodes, heat transfer enhancement in channel flow, and mixing enhancement ... -
Driving Robotic Exoskeletons Using Cable-Based Transmissions: A Qualitative Analysis and Overview
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Wearable robotics is a field receiving increasing attention from the scientific community. It has great potential to improve rehabilitation process or increase the human capabilities but faces a number of challenges. On ... -
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 ... -
Adjoint Methods as Design Tools in Thermoacoustics
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In a thermoacoustic system, such as a flame in a combustor, heat release oscillations couple with acoustic pressure oscillations. If the heat release is sufficiently in phase with the pressure, these oscillations can grow, ... -
Discrete Energy-Conservation Properties in the Numerical Simulation of the Navier–Stokes Equations
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Nonlinear convective terms pose the most critical issues when a numerical discretization of the Navier–Stokes equations is performed, especially at high Reynolds numbers. They are indeed responsible for a nonlinear instability ... -
Wave-Packet Models for Jet Dynamics and Sound Radiation
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Organized structures in turbulent jets can be modeled as wavepackets. These are characterized by spatial amplification and decay, both of which are related to stability mechanisms, and they are coherent over several jet ... -
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 ... -
Wave-Packet Models for Jet Dynamics and Sound Radiation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Organized structures in turbulent jets can be modeled as wavepackets. These are characterized by spatial amplification and decay, both of which are related to stability mechanisms, and they are coherent over several jet ... -
Adjoint Methods as Design Tools in Thermoacoustics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In a thermoacoustic system, such as a flame in a combustor, heat release oscillations couple with acoustic pressure oscillations. If the heat release is sufficiently in phase with the pressure, these oscillations can grow, ... -
Discrete Energy-Conservation Properties in the Numerical Simulation of the Navier–Stokes Equations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Nonlinear convective terms pose the most critical issues when a numerical discretization of the Navier–Stokes equations is performed, especially at high Reynolds numbers. They are indeed responsible for a nonlinear instability ...