Journal of Applied Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Non-Quadratic Strain Gradient Plasticity Theory and Size Effects in Constrained Shear
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/7/2023 1)A previously proposed strain gradient plasticity theory is extended to incorporate a non-quadratic power law function of the plastic strain gradient in the free energy expression with an exponent of N + 1. The values of N ... -
Mechanics of Tunable Adhesion With Surface Wrinkles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/7/2023 1)Surface wrinkles have emerged as a promising avenue for the development of smart adhesives with dynamically tunable adhesion, finding applications in diverse fields, such as soft robots and medical devices. Despite intensive ... -
Osmotic Pressure Gradient Effects on Water Diffusion in Porous Rock: Can They Pervert Permeability Tests?
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/7/2023 1)Generation of a large network of hydraulic cracks is of key importance not only for the success of fracking of shale but also for the recent scheme of sequestration of CO2 in deep formations of basalt and peridotite, which ... -
Fracture Resistance of Chemo-Mechanically Coupled Solid Solutions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/7/2023 1)Fracture in solid solutions, such as electrodes for lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells, is mediated by intricate interactions between solid-state diffusion and crack propagation. In this work, we developed a compositio ... -
On the Interaction of Damage Evolution and Thermal Buckling in Stepped Circular Bilaminates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/3/2023 1)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), 8/3/2023 1)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 ... -
Characterizing the Adhesion Between Thin Films and Rigid Substrates Using Digital Image Correlation-Informed Inverse Finite Elements and the Blister Test
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/3/2023 1)Characterizing the adhesion between thin films and rigid substrates is crucial in engineering applications. Still, existing standard methods suffer from issues such as poor reproducibility, difficulties in quantifying ... -
Conformal Theoretical Modeling of Arbitrary Shape Flexible Electronic Sensors Mounted Onto General Curved Surface Substrates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/3/2023 1)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 ... -
The General Gauss Principle of Least Constraint
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/2/2023 1)This paper develops a general form of Gauss’s Principle of Least Constraint, which deals with the manner in which Nature appears to orchestrate the motion of constrained mechanical systems. The theory of constrained motion ... -
Surface Effect in Nano-Scale Fretting Contact Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/2/2023 1)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), 8/2/2023 1)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 ... -
Theoretical Puncture Mechanics of Soft Compressible Solids
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/2/2023 1)Accurate prediction of the force required to puncture a soft material is critical in many fields like medical technology, food processing, and manufacturing. However, such a prediction strongly depends on our understanding ... -
Multimaterial Topology Optimization of Adhesive Backing Layers via J-Integral and Strain Energy Minimizations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/2/2023 1)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 ... -
Effective Mechanical Properties of Auxetic Materials: Numerical Predictions Using Variational Asymptotic Method Based Homogenization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/20/2023 )In this work, the variational asymptotic method (VAM) based homogenization framework is used for the first time to determine the equivalent elastic stiffness tensor of auxetic materials. The proposed method allows the ... -
A Novel Efficient Energy Absorber With Necking-Expansion of Foam Sandwich Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/20/2023 )Foam sandwich tube is composed of two tubes and a lightweight foam core possessing various advantages, i.e., low density, excellent mitigation performance and energy absorption, etc. With the hope of enhancing the load ... -
Axisymmetric Peeling of Thin Elastic Films: A Perturbation Solution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/18/2023 )We study the mechanical behavior of a thin elastic film that is affixed to a rigid substrate and subjected to a transverse force using a shaft with a finite radius. This scenario, also referred to as axisymmetric peeling, ... -
Dramatic Amplification of the Flexoelectric Effect in Snapping Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/18/2023 )Flexoelectricity exists in all inhomogeneously deformed dielectric materials and is of great interest in engineering science, especially in microelectromechanical systems. However, the flexoelectricity is relatively small ... -
Bounds on the Poisson’s Ratios of Diamond-Like Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/18/2023 )Poisson’s ratios of diamond-like structures, such as cubic C, Si, and Ge, have been widely explored because of their potential applications in solid-state devices. However, the theoretical bounds on the Poisson’s ratios ... -
Justification of a New Original Homogenized Model for Ionic Diffusion in Porous Media
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/15/2023 )In this work, a new original justification of an homogenized model for ionic diffusion in porous media is proposed. The approach used enables to specify clearly the domain of validity of this homogenized model, involving ... -
On Jump Discontinuities in Internal Forces of Flexible Structures Carrying Moving Subsystems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 6/15/2023 )Combined systems, which are flexible structures carrying moving subsystems, are seen in various applications. Due to structure–subsystem interactions, the structure in a combined system encounters jump discontinuities in ...