Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Tresca Versus Von Mises: Which Failure Criterion is More Conservative in a Probabilistic Context?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This tutorial examines the failure theories of Tresca and von Mises, both of which are crucial for designing metallic structures. Conventionally, Tresca is regarded as more conservative than von Mises from a deterministic ... -
The Stress State in an Elastic Disk Due to a Temperature Variation in One Sector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Consider a linear elastic infinite disk, a sector of which, of arbitrary opening angle 2β, is subjected to a uniform temperature increase ΔT with respect to the complementary portion. An analytical solution is sought, ... -
Elastic Foundation Solution for the End-Notched Flexure Mode II Sandwich Configuration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article presents a closed-form solution for the energy release rate of face/core debonds in the mode II end-notched flexure (ENF) sandwich configuration. The finite-length sandwich specimen is considered to have a ... -
Stability of Plane Parallel Flow Revisited for Particle–Fluid Suspensions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)An alternative model is proposed for hydrodynamic stability of plane parallel flow of an incompressible Newtonian fluid with suspended solid particles. For heavy particle-laden dusty gases with negligible particle volume ... -
Electromechanical Responses of a Piezoelectric Semiconducting Nanoplate With the Steigmann–Ogden Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Piezoelectric semiconductors (PSCs) find widespread applications in smart electronic devices due to their unique combination of piezoelectric and semiconductive properties. With the increasing demand for smaller and more ... -
Mechanical Structure Design of Pressure Sensors With Temperature Self-Compensation for Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Invasive blood pressure (IBP) is a fundamental part of basic cardiovascular monitoring. Conventional piezoresistive pressure sensors are limited in usage due to the high cost associated with equipment and intricate fabrication ... -
Multistep and Elastically Stable Mechanical Metamaterials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Materials and structures with tunable mechanical properties are essential for numerous applications. However, constructing such structures poses a great challenge since it is normally very complicated to change the properties ... -
Uncovering Pattern-Transformable Soft Granular Crystals Induced by Microscopic Instability
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Upon compression, some soft granular crystals undergo pattern transformation. Recent studies have unveiled that the underlying mechanism of this transformation is closely tied to microscopic instability, resulting in ... -
Frictional Slippage of Annular Elastomeric Disks Compressed Between Rigid Platens
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Compression of compressible, linearly elastic, annular disks by flat rigid platens is analyzed. Coulomb (Amonton) friction is assumed to act at the interfaces between the disk and the platens. Slip may occur in an outer ... -
Master Curves for Poroelastic Spherical Indentation With Step Displacement Loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Theoretical and numerical analyses are conducted to rigorously construct master curves that can be used for interpretation of displacement-controlled poroelastic spherical indentation test. A fully coupled poroelastic ... -
Topology Optimization of Hard-Magnetic Soft Phononic Structures for Wide Magnetically Tunable Band Gaps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Hard-magnetic soft materials, which exhibit finite deformation under magnetic loading, have emerged as a promising class of soft active materials for the development of phononic structures with tunable elastic wave band ... -
Intriguing Brownian Diffusivity Characteristics of Complex Nanoparticles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This article reveals how apparently similar looking nanoparticles with same size, shape, and mass may exhibit widely varying Brownian diffusivity due to inherent features of nanoscale dynamics. Such variabilities may, in ... -
Exploring Nano-Scale Scratching Induced Tribological Behavior of Graphene Engineered AlCoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Motivated by the recent discoveries concerning the exceptional surface engineering capabilities offered by high-entropy alloys (HEAs), this article investigates the tribological behavior of pristine and graphene nano-engineered ... -
Structural Assessment of Architected Material Using the Redundancy Matrix and Experimental Testing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper presents the integration of a numerical structural model based on the redundancy matrix and experimental results of multi-layered randomized architected materials (MLRAM). It presents a combination of the ... -
Poroelastic and Viscoelastic Hallmarks in the Response of Porous and Transversely Isotropic Beams to Harmonic Excitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)A general solution to harmonic excitation of beam-shaped specimens made from porous, fluid-saturated, transversely isotropic, and viscoelastic materials is developed and presented. The solution draws from Biot's theory of ... -
Ellipsoidal Inclusions in Flexoelectric Solids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The flexoelectric effect, characterized by the induction of electric polarization by strain gradients, exhibits a remarkable size dependence. This makes flexoelectricity highly relevant for nanoscale electromechanical ... -
Axisymmetric Vibration of Inviscid Compressible Fluid-Filled Soft Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Tube
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Driven by the versatility and adaptability of next-generation soft robotic devices, investigating the vibrational behavior under fluid-electromechanical coupling represented by a soft dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) ... -
Scalar Field Prediction on Meshes Using Interpolated Multiresolution Convolutional Neural Networks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Scalar fields, such as stress or temperature fields, are often calculated in shape optimization and design problems in engineering. For complex problems where shapes have varying topology and cannot be parametrized, ... -
Self-Oscillation of a Liquid Crystal Elastomer String-Mass System Under Constant Gradient Temperature
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Recent experiments have found that a fiber-mass system can self-oscillate along the vertical direction under a non-uniform temperature field, which necessitates significant vertical space. To address the challenge in ... -
2022 Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Lecture: A Trip the Light FantasticPresented at the ASME Applied Mechanics Division Banquet, Columbus, OH, November 2, 2022.
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Michael Albert SuttonMichael Albert Sutton Friends, colleagues, and family:First, I want to express my deepest appreciation to the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME for bestowing this honor, which I feel is the highest ...