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Special Issue of Applied Mechanics Reviews in Collaboration With the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is an international review journal that serves as a premier venue for stateoftheart and retrospective survey articles and reviews of research areas and curricular developments across all ... -
Mechanics of Confined Thin Walled Cylinders Subjected to External Pressure
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Motivated by practical engineering applications, the present paper examines the mechanical response of thinwalled cylinders surrounded by a rigid or deformable medium, subjected to uniform external pressure. Emphasis is ... -
Discussion of “Cytoskeletal Mechanics Regulating Amoeboid Cell Locomotion†(أپlvarez Gonzأ،lez, B., Bastounis, E., Meili, R., del Alamo, J. C., Firtel, R. A., and Lasheras, J. C., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(5), p. 050804)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)A virtually universal feature of adherent cells is their ability to exert traction forces. To measure these forces, several methods have been developed over the past 15 years. In this issue of Applied Mechanics Reviews, ... -
Cytoskeletal Mechanics Regulating Amoeboid Cell Locomotion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Migrating cells exert traction forces when moving. Amoeboid cell migration is a common type of cell migration that appears in many physiological and pathological processes and is performed by a wide variety of cell types. ... -
Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics and Energy Conversion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Under nanoconfinement, fluid molecules and ions exhibit radically different configurations, properties, and energetics from those of their bulk counterparts. These unique characteristics of nanoconfined fluids, along with ... -
Closure to “Discussion of â€کNanoscale Fluid Mechanics and Energy Conversion’†(Chen, X., Xu, B., and Liu, L., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(5), p. 050803)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The commentary by Professor Jan Eijkel provides a quite broad review on the topic of nanoscale fluid mechanics and energy conversion, touching comprehensively on the “rootdomains†of nanofluidics as well as the nanofluidic ... -
Extending the Transport Theorem to Rough Domains of Integration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Transport theorems, such as that named after Reynolds, are an important tool in the field of continuum physics. Recently, Seguin and Fried used Harrison's theory of differential chains to establish a transport theorem valid ... -
Discussion of “Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics and Energy Conversion†(Chen, X., Xu, B., and Liu, L., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(5), p. 050803)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The authors of the paper “Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics and Energy Conversion†have presented an overview of recent applications of nanofluidic phenomena for energy conversion and storage. The discussion given here aims ... -
Continuum Modeling of Granular Media
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This is a survey of the interesting phenomenology and the prominent regimes of granular flow, followed by a unified mathematical synthesis of continuum modeling. The unification is achieved by means of “parametric†... -
Closure to “Discussion of â€کOn the Role of Nonlinearities in Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion’†(Daqaq, M., Masana, R., Erturk, A., and Quinn, D. D., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(4), p. 040801)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)To begin, we would like to point out that the complexity of the response behavior of nonlinear harvesters as compared to their linear counterparts remains the biggest challenge preventing us from optimizing their performance ... -
A Review of Planetary and Epicyclic Gear Dynamics and Vibrations Research
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This article summarizes published journal articles on planetary and epicyclic gear dynamics and vibration. Research in this field has increased dramatically over the past two decades. The wide range of research topics ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is an international review journal that serves as a premier venue for stateoftheart and retrospective survey articles and reviews of research areas and curricular developments across all ... -
Discussion of “Dynamics of Phononic Materials and Structures: Historical Origins, Recent Progress and Future Outlook†(Hussein, M. I., Leamy, M. J., and Ruzzene, M., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(4), p. 040802)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The authors provide an extensive review of this field, outlining its multidisciplinary history, presenting a stateoftheart review of current methods and applications, a description of the phenomena observed and projections ... -
Circulant Matrices and Their Application to Vibration Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)This paper provides a tutorial and summary of the theory of circulant matrices and their application to the modeling and analysis of the free and forced vibration of mechanical structures with cyclic symmetry. Our presentation ... -
Discussion of “On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion†(Daqaq, M., Masana, R., Erturk, A., and Quinn, D. D., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(4), p. 040801)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The authors have written a nice review on the purposeful use of nonlinearity in vibratory energy harvesting. The current limitations of batteries and advancements in lowpower electronic devices are identified as two ... -
Closure to “Discussion of â€کDynamics of Phononic Materials and Structures: Historical Origins, Recent Progress, and Future Outlook’†(Hussein, M. I., Leamy, M. J., and Ruzzene, M., 2014, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 66(4), p. 040802)
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The discussion article [1] written by Professor Brian Mace provides complementary analysis of several aspects of the dynamics of phononic materials and structures and an insightful perspective on some of the intriguing ... -
On the Mechanics of Fatigue and Fracture in Teeth
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Tooth fracture is a major concern in the field of restorative dentistry. However, knowledge of the causes for tooth fracture has developed from contributions that are largely based within the field of mechanics. The present ... -
On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The last two decades have witnessed several advances in microfabrication technologies and electronics, leading to the development of small, lowpower devices for wireless sensing, data transmission, actuation, and medical ... -
Dynamics of Phononic Materials and Structures: Historical Origins, Recent Progress, and Future Outlook
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)The study of phononic materials and structures is an emerging discipline that lies at the crossroads of vibration and acoustics engineering and condensed matter physics. Broadly speaking, a phononic medium is a material ... -
Special Issue of Applied Mechanics Reviews in Collaboration With the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2014)Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is an international review journal that serves as a premier venue for stateoftheart and retrospective survey articles and reviews of research areas and curricular developments across all ...