Journal of Engineering Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Particle Breakage Energy in Coarse-Grained Soil and Its Effect on the Stress–Dilatancy Equation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe breakage of particles in coarse-grained soil consumes the strain energy stored within the particles, altering the original energy relationship during deformation and weakening the soil’s dilatancy. By studying ... -
Analytical and Numerical Investigation of Suspended Sediment Concentration Profiles in an Ice-Covered Channel Using the Time-Fractional Advection–Diffusion Equation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe diffusion behavior of sediments in an ice-covered channel is different from that in a regular open channel due to the presence of an additional ice cover on the upper surface. Several models based on the ... -
Gradient-Free Importance Sampling Scheme for Efficient Reliability Estimation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis work presents a novel gradient-free importance sampling-based framework for precisely and efficiently estimating rare event probabilities, often encountered in reliability analyses of engineering systems. The ... -
Micromechanical Investigation of Cyclic Degradation in Granular Materials Based on the Photoelastic Technique
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractParticle behavior under cyclic shear is one of the fundamental topics in geotechnical engineering. Understanding their behavior aids in improving the stability and performance of granular materials under repeated ... -
Equivalent Stiffness Matrix of Frictional Sliding Cables with Application to Structural Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractSliding cables are crucial components in various engineering applications. Traditional analysis methods often model friction by incorporating sliding displacements as additional degrees of freedom. These methods ... -
Comparison of Coupled SPH–DEM Approach and Orientation Tensor–Based Models for Fiber Flow Simulation in Fresh Concrete
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis paper presents a numerical approach to simulate fiber flow in fresh concrete, modeled as a non-Newtonian fluid, during casting. The approach is based on the coupling between weakly compressible (WC) smoothed ... -
Particle Shape Effect on Creep and Fluidity of Granular Packing
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe mechanical behavior of granular packing is closely related to the particle shape. This study investigated the macroscopic behavior of mixture specimens with different contents of glass beads and Fujian sand ... -
Element-Free Galerkin Method for Elastostatic Analysis of Nonlocal Stress-Driven Bernoulli–Euler Beams
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractLow-dimensional structures with dimensions in the range of micro-nano meters exhibit size-dependent behavior. Modeling and design of these structures are done by incorporating nonlocal constitutive theories for ... -
Statistical Characterization of the Fracture Surface of Steel under Monotonic and Ultralow-Cycle-Fatigue Loading
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractAxisymmetric circumferentially notched tension specimens with varying levels of triaxiality were subjected to monotonic tensile and ultralow-cycle-fatigue (ULCF) loading regimes. Scanning electron microscopy was ... -
High-Efficiency Simulation Method for Nonstationary and Non-Gaussian Stochastic Ground Motion
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThe actual ground motion is not only time-frequency nonstationary, but also shows the fat-tailed non-Gaussianity of marginal distribution. An efficient simulation method of nonstationary and non-Gaussian stochastic ... -
Semiactive Control and Reliability Analysis for Vibration Mitigation of Spar-Type Floating Offshore Wind Turbines under Stochastic Wind and Waves
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractFloating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are subject to structural vibrations caused by wind and waves. Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) provide a promising means of vibration mitigation for turbine structures. However, ... -
Estimating Land Subsidence Induced by Groundwater Extraction in Gassy Soil with Anisotropic Permeability
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractExtraction and utilization of groundwater is essential for meeting the demand of drinking water, agricultural irrigation, and industrial processes. Nevertheless, groundwater extraction frequently leads to land ... -
Real-Time Hybrid Simulation for Degradation Assessment: Conceptual Framework and Illustrative Example
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractReal-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) is a class of cyber-physical testing that enables the inexpensive testing of structural systems. In the current state of the art, the possibility of using RTHS to study the effects ... -
Influence of the Initial Clay Fabric on the Progressive Destructuring Process under One-Dimensional Compression
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis study aims to show how the interactions between clay particles and their environment can influence the fabric structuring of clayey soils, as well as to highlight the consequences on their mechanical behavior. ... -
Effect of Normal Stress Variation and Pore Pressure Rate on a Fluid-Injected Fault: Rate and State Friction Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractInjection of pore fluid into the terrestrial subsurface can induce seismicity. Previous modeling studies on fluid-injected laboratory samples assuming constant normal stress on a frictional surface have shown that ... -
Novel Approach for Deriving a State-Dependent Soil Constitutive Model Using Stress Probing Analysis
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractNonlinearity, irreversibility, and state-dependency are prominent features of the mechanical behavior of soil. To develop a constitutive model for soil with a rigorous basis, a thorough understanding of its incremental ... -
Analytical Models for the Rocking Response of Stacked, Keyed Graphite Blocks in the Core of a High-Temperature Gas Reactor
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThe core of the Boston Atomics-designed horizontal compact high-temperature gas reactor (HC-HTGR) is composed of columns of stacked, keyed graphite blocks. The dynamic response of these columns is predominantly ... -
3D Reconstruction of Ductile Dimples in A36 Steel from SEM Micrographs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractScanning electron microscope (SEM) fractographs are extensively used to analyze the ductile and ultra-low cycle fatigue fracture surfaces of structural steel. However, the two-dimensional (2D) nature of SEM images ... -
Acoustic-Structural Analysis of Lightweight FG Porous Composite Cylindrical Shells Reinforced with Agglomerated Graphene Nanoplatelets on Viscoelastic Foundations under Subsonic Flow
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractIn high-speed trains and automotive and aeronautic structures, the addition of agglomerated graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) as nanofillers, combined with engineered pores distributed throughout the structure, can ... -
Ice-Load Time-Domain Modeling for Arctic Navigation Using an Enhanced Popov Method
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2026)AbstractThis study presents a newly revised icebreaker external dynamics model, in which friction force and restitution coefficient are accounted for. The unification of classical elastic-plastic mechanics and the pressure–area ...