Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Determination of Dynamic Characteristics of Lattice Structure Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this work, dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) was applied as an algorithm for determining the natural frequency and damping ratio of viscoelastic lattice structures. The algorithm has been developed based on the Hankel ... -
Size Effect of Yielding of Particle-Reinforced Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper illustrates how particle size affects the initial yield stress of particle-reinforced composites. A formulation in a closed form is presented to demonstrate the size effect of yielding of the composites. This ... -
Post-Buckling Analysis of Arch and Serpentine Structures Under End-to-End Compression
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Arch and serpentine structures are two fundamental structural forms with significant applications in various fields. When subjected to compressive loading at both ends, these structures undergo flexural-torsional post-buckling, ... -
Erratum: “On the Analysis of Periodically Heterogenous Beams” [ASME J. Appl. Mech., 2016, 83(9), p. 091001; DOI: 10.1115/1.4033721]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This erratum corrects errors in the originally published paper.The equations listed in the original manuscript have been found to include several typographical errors that make it impossible to understand the proofs presented ... -
Resolving Absorbed Work and Generalized Inertia Forces From System Energy Equation—A Hamiltonian and Phase-Space Kinematics Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This paper develops a theoretical basis and a systematic process for resolving all inertia forces along generalized coordinates from the overall energy equation of a dynamical system. The theory is developed for natural ... -
Closed-Form Solutions to Continuous-Time Algebraic Riccati Equation for Second-Order Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Two closed-form methods to solve the continuous-time algebraic Riccati equation (CARE) for second-order systems in terms of the mass, damping, and stiffness matrices are presented. One method utilizes the modal transformation ... -
Propagation of the Fundamental Lamb Modes in Strain Stiffened Hard-Magnetic Soft Plates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study focuses on investigating hard-magnetic soft materials, characterized by magnetoactive polymers containing magnetically polarized particles as fillers. The research utilizes the Gent model of hyperelasticity to ... -
Three-Dimensional General Solutions of Orthorhombic Quasicrystals With Constraints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This study employs the Lur'e operator method to derive generalized solutions for orthorhombic quasicrystals, incorporating anisotropy factors as constraints. The solutions derived contain the Lekhnitskii–Hu–Nowacki and ... -
Dynamic Properties of Double Porosity/Permeability Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Understanding fluid movement in multi-pored materials is vital for energy security and physiology. For instance, shale (a geological material) and bone (a biological material) exhibit multiple pore networks. Double ... -
The Post-Buckling Behavior of a Beam Constrained by Nonlinear Springy Walls
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The post-buckling behavior of a beam that is subjected to lateral constraints is of relevance to a range of medical and engineering applications, such as endoscopic examination of internal organs, the insertion of a guidewire ... -
A Perspective on Plasticity, Dissipation and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The requirement of a non-negative dissipation rate for all possible deformation histories is generally imposed on plastic constitutive relations. This is a constraint analogous to the Coleman–Noll [Coleman, B. D., and Noll, ... -
The Axial Compressive Response of Thin, Elastic, Polygonal Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Thin-walled cylindrical shell structures are revisited with the objective of increasing the axial load-carrying capacity. By using the postbuckling reserve of rectangular plates, polygonal shells are studied, which combines ... -
Dependence of Critical Stress Intensity Factor on Crack Depth From the Loading Boundary of Crystalline Silicon
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In the present work, an atomistic scale investigation is done on crystalline silicon to understand the effect of crack depth from the loading (pulling) boundary on the critical near-tip state of stress. For various depths ... -
Chiral Standing Spin Waves and Unidirectional Waves of Odd Elastic Cylindrical Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Rotating waves can be observed in structures with periodic conditions, such as cylinders and spheres. Compared with traveling waves and standing waves, rotating waves have received less attention. In this paper, an odd ... -
Dynamic Behaviors of Delaminated Nanofilms Partly Bonded on Substrates With Sub-Nanoscale van der Waals Dynamic Boundaries
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Dynamic behaviors of delaminated nanofilms on substrates are universal and essential phenomena in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Van der Waals (vdWs) interactions play an important role in the dynamic behaviors of ... -
Multistable States and Snap-Through Instabilities in an Interconnected Dielectric Elastomer Actuators System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Snap-through instabilities in single and interconnected dielectric elastomer actuators have demonstrated their potential in enabling many functionalities such as large deformation, high-speed actuation, and enhanced flowrates ... -
Design of Porous Partition Elastomer Substrates for the Island–Bridge Structures in Stretchable Inorganic Electronics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Stretchable inorganic electronics have been of growing interest over the past decades due to their various attractive potential applications. The island–bridge structure is the most widely used structural design, where ... -
Unequal-Biaxial Taut States of Electro-Active Polymeric Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Existing studies on wrinkling, an instability phenomenon commonly observed on electro-active polymers (EAP), have largely ignored the unequal-biaxial taut states, focusing instead on the equal-biaxial deformations of such ... -
The Ductile/Brittle Transition for Materials Failure—Atomic Scale to Macroscopic Scale
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)This work is the continuation and completion to that initiated in the studies by Christensen (2022, “Perspective on the Bond Bending and Bond Stretching Effects of the Atomic Scale and Their Relationship to Ductile Versus ... -
Continuous Transport of a Nanoparticle on a Solid Surface
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Long-distance transport of a nanoparticle on a solid surface remains a challenge in nanotechnology. Here, we design a nanoscale motor device for continuously transporting a nanoparticle on a beam surface. The device is ...