Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Inertia Modulated Meta-Structure With Time-Varying Inertia Amplification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this work, a new inertia modulated meta-structure is proposed to enable time-dependent inertia parameters, and thereby realize non-reciprocal wave propagation via spatiotemporal modulation. The designed cell structure ... -
Cellular Mechanics of Finger-Like Structures of Collective Cell Migration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Finger-like structures emerging from groups of cells at the forefront of cell layer take crucial roles in the migration of collective cell assemblies. However, the mechanics of the finger-like structure has not been fully ... -
Rigorous Analysis of Energy Conservation During Dynamic Deployment of Elastic Thin-Shell Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper studies the dynamic deployment of cylindrical thin-shell structures with open cross section, attached to a rigid base. The structures are elastically folded and then released. Previous experiments have shown ... -
Roton-Enabled Mechanical Diode at Extremely Low Frequency
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper presents a refined model for a mechanical diode based on a mass-spring system. The proposed model utilizes a bilinear spring to construct a frequency converter, which effectively disrupts the reciprocal transmission ... -
Investigating Viscoelastic Properties of Myofibrils Isolated From hiPSC-CMs Using Atomic Force Microscopy and Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Knowing the mechanical properties of cardiac myofibrils isolated from human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) can provide valuable insight into the structure and function of the heart muscle. ... -
Incorporating Geometric Nonlinearity in Theoretical Modeling of Muscle-Powered Soft Robotic Bio-Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Biohybrid actuators aim to leverage the various advantages of biological cells over artificial components to build novel compliant machines with high performance and autonomy. Significant advances have been made in ... -
Fracture Toughness of Hydrogel Laminates: Experiments, Theory, and Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Possessing enhanced mechanical durability and multiple novel functions, hydrogel laminates have found wide applications in diverse areas, including stretchable and bio-integrated electronics, soft robotics, tissue engineering, ... -
Data-Driven Stochastic Averaging
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Stochastic averaging, as an effective technique for dimension reduction, is of great significance in stochastic dynamics and control. However, its practical applications in industrial and engineering fields are severely ... -
Large Deflection Effects on the Energy Release Rate and Mode Partitioning of the Single Cantilever Beam Sandwich Debond Configuration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper investigates the effects of large deflections on the energy release rate and mode partitioning of face/core debonds for the single cantilever beam sandwich composite testing configuration, which is loaded with ... -
A Numerical Study on the Ballistic Performance of Projectiles Formed by Shaped Charge
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this work, a numerical analysis of shaped charge impact process is conducted to investigate the jet formation process and its penetration performance on metal targets. Numerical results are compared with experimental ... -
On the Interaction of Damage Evolution and Thermal Buckling in Stepped Circular Bilaminates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The behavior and evolution of stepped circular bi-laminates with edge damage are studied for structures subjected to uniform thermal load. The problem is formulated as a moving intermediate boundaries problem in the calculus ... -
Static Wetting of a Liquid Droplet on a Soft Elastic Substrate
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)A refined spherical cap model, combined with an elastic foundation model for the elastic substrate, is proposed to study the static wetting of a liquid droplet on a soft elastic substrate. The strain energy of the substrate ... -
Conformal Theoretical Modeling of Arbitrary Shape Flexible Electronic Sensors Mounted Onto General Curved Surface Substrates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Stretchable and flexible electronic sensors have been attracted to novel applications due to their conformal integration onto complex curved surfaces, whereas the mounting strains generated by the geometric mismatch of ... -
Surface Effect in Nano-Scale Fretting Contact Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The fretting contact behavior of nanostructured materials is significantly influenced by the surface effect. A model of fretting contact between a nano-sized rigid cylindrical indenter and an elastic half-plane is established ... -
Shock Isolation of an Orthogonal Six-DOFs Platform With High-Static-Low-Dynamic Stiffness
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)A novel approach to enhance the shock vibration environment of multi-directions using a high-static-low-dynamic stiffness supported orthogonal six-degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) nonlinear vibration isolation (OSNVI) system is ... -
Multimaterial Topology Optimization of Adhesive Backing Layers via J-Integral and Strain Energy Minimizations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)Strong adhesives often rely on reduced stress concentrations obtained via specific functional grading of material properties. This can be seen in many examples in nature and engineering. Basic design principles have been ... -
Bifurcations and Stability Analysis of Elastic Slender Structures Using Static Discrete Elastic Rods Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/5/2023 1)Discrete elastic rods (DER) method provides a computationally efficient means of simulating the nonlinear dynamics of one-dimensional slender structures. However, this dynamic-based framework can only provide first-order ... -
Reduced Order Modeling of Dynamic Mechanical Metamaterials for Analysis of Infinite and Finite Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/27/2023 )Dynamic mechanical metamaterials (MMs) are artificial media composed of periodic micro-structures, designed to manipulate wave propagation. Modeling and designing MMs can be computationally demanding due to the broad design ... -
A Nonlinear Repeated Impact Model of Auxetic Honeycomb Structures Considering Geometric Nonlinearity and Tensile/Compressive Deformation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/9/2023 1)This study aims to improve the impact protection performance of composite structures by combining a honeycomb core with negative Poisson’s ratio and graphene platelets reinforced (GPR) face sheets. The paper investigates ... -
Dislocation in a Strained Layer Embedded in a Semi-Infinite Matrix
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/5/2023 1)The misfit stress in a thin layer embedded in a semi-infinite matrix has been first determined near the free surface of the structure, using the virtual dislocation formalism. From a Peach–Koehler force analysis, the ...