Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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A Theoretical Analysis for Arbitrary Residual Stress of Thin Film/Substrate System With Nonnegligible Film Thickness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Stoney formula is widely used in advanced devices to estimate the residual stress of thin film/substrate system by measuring surface curvature. Many hypotheses including that thin film thickness is ignored are required, ... -
Overview of Computational Methods to Predict Flutter in Aircraft
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Aeroelastic flutter is a dynamically complex phenomenon that has adverse and unstable effects on elastic structures. It is crucial to better predict the phenomenon of flutter within the scope of aircraft structures to ... -
Curvature-Matching Mechanics in Skin-Based Bioelectronics to Minimize Interfacial Stresses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)A geometrical and mechanical design strategy is proposed for bioelectronics to improve wearability and comfort by reducing the magnitude of interfacial stresses and ensuring that the spatial stress distributions are below ... -
Determination of Nonstationary Stochastic Response of Linear Oscillators With Fractional Derivative Elements of Rational Order
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this paper, a technique is developed for determining the nonstationary response statistics of linear oscillators endowed with fractional derivative elements. Notably, fractional operators are particularly effective in ... -
Uncoupling of Linear Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Damped Gyroscopic Potential Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper deals with the uncoupling of linear damped multi-degree-of-freedom gyroscopic potential systems in which the damping is taken to have a specifically chosen form. Necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained ... -
Fast Optimal Design of Shell-Graded-Infill Structures With Explicit Boundary by a Hybrid MMC-AABH Plus Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this study, a hybrid MMC-AABH plus approach is developed for the fast optimal design of shell-graded-infill structures. The key idea is to use a proper description about the graded microstructural infill and the coating ... -
Experimental Validation of Reconstructed Microstructure via Deep Learning in Discontinuous Fiber Platelet Composite
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)A novel approach for microstructure reconstruction using artificial intelligence (MR-AI) was proposed to nondestructively measure the through-thickness average stochastic fiber orientation distribution (FOD) in a prepreg ... -
A Noncontact Method for Estimating Thin Metal Film Adhesion Strength Through Current-Induced Void Growth
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Studies have reported that the electromigration-induced void growth velocity in metal thin films is inversely related to the adhesion strength of the metal thin film with the base and passivation layers. It was also observed ... -
An Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Theory With Flexoelectricity: Application to Ionic Conductivity of Soft Solid Electrolytes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Flexible batteries are gaining momentum in several fields, including wearable medical devices and biomedical sensors, flexible displays, and smartwatches. These energy storage devices are subjected to electro-chemo-mechanical ... -
Mechanical Metamaterials Fabricated From Self-Assembly: A Perspective
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Mechanical metamaterials, whose unique mechanical properties stem from their structural design rather than material constituents, are gaining popularity in engineering applications. In particular, recent advances in ... -
Instability of Metamaterial-Based Thin Cylindrical Shells Under Axial Compression
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper presents comprehensive numerical studies on the instability behavior of metamaterial-based cylindrical shells (meta-shells) under axial compression. The cylindrical meta-shells are comprised of lattice-like ... -
Mechanical Response of Fisherman’s Knots During Tightening
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The fisherman’s knot, renowned for its strength and reliability, finds applications in engineering and medicine. However, a comprehensive understanding of its mechanics remains limited in scientific literature. In this ... -
The Role of Frequency and Impedance Contrasts in Bandgap Closing and Formation Patterns of Axially-Vibrating Phononic Crystals
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Bandgaps, or frequency ranges of forbidden wave propagation, are a hallmark of phononic crystals (PnCs). Unlike their lattice counterparts, PnCs taking the form of continuous structures exhibit an infinite number of bandgaps ... -
Head Injuries Induced by Tennis Ball Impacts: A Computational Study
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Head injuries induced by tennis ball impacts are computationally studied. The impact of a two-piece tennis ball on a human head is simulated by using an established full body model and a newly constructed tennis ball model. ... -
Magneto-Mechanical Metamaterials: A Perspective
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Magneto-mechanical metamaterials possess unique and tunable properties by adjusting their shape configurations in response to an external magnetic field. Their designs and functionalities are diverse and are utilized in a ... -
Decomposition and Uncoupling of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Gyroscopic Conservative Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper explores the decomposition of linear, multi-degree-of-freedom, conservative gyroscopic dynamical systems into uncoupled subsystems through the use of real congruences. Two conditions, both of which are necessary ... -
Automated Identification of Differential-Variational Equations for Static Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Data-driven equation identification for dynamical systems has achieved great progress, which for static systems, however, has not kept pace. Unlike dynamical systems, static systems are time invariant, so we cannot capture ... -
Perspective: Machine Learning in Design for 3D/4D Printing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)3D/4D printing offers significant flexibility in manufacturing complex structures with a diverse range of mechanical responses, while also posing critical needs in tackling challenging inverse design problems. The rapidly ... -
Dynamic Behavior of Bistable Shallow Arches: From Intrawell to Chaotic Motion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Bistable shallow arches are ubiquitous in many engineering systems ranging from compliant mechanisms and biomedical stents to energy harvesters and passive fluidic controllers. In all these scenarios, the bistable states ... -
A Comparative Study of the Entanglement Models Toward Simulating Hyperelastic Behaviors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Accurately predicting the hyperelastic response of soft materials under complex loading conditions has been a long-standing challenge. Previous developments have shown that incorporating the entanglement effect can ...