Journal of Engineering Mechanics: Recent submissions
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Noninvasive Methods to Estimate the Mass Eccentricity of Steel-Cored Elastomeric Spheres for Seismic Isolation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractRolling isolation systems are a promising cost-efficient alternative to conventional seismic isolation (e.g., rubber bearing or frictional devices). Recent studies have suggested a rolling isolation system ... -
A Stochastic Approach to Solve the Consolidation Problem through the Feynman–Kac Formulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractTerzaghi’s analytical solution for one-dimensional (1D) consolidation is primarily developed for thin samples and thus provides reliable results within restricted domain sizes. However, extending its applicability ... -
Subsurface Energy Technological Advances Enabled by Novel Analytical and Numerical Engineering Mechanics Methods
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis paper reviews the theoretical and computational engineering mechanics contributions made in the last five years to address scientific questions that pertain to subsurface energy technologies. Hydraulic fracturing ... -
Analysis of the Connection between Aerodynamic Force, Deformation, Flow, and Structure of Wind Turbine Blades Using Dynamic Mode Decomposition
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractAn aeroelastic coupling method based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equation and geometrically extract beam theory is developed for wind turbine blades. Using dynamic mode decomposition, the unsteady flow ... -
Vibration Suppression Method for Slender Structures Based on Additive Manufacturing Technologies
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis paper presents a new approach to suppress the vibration of slender structures by incorporating a lattice structure filled with damping materials. First, to significantly improve efficiency, an equivalent ... -
Study of Love Waves in a Nonlocal Piezoelectric Plate Induced by a Point Source Using FDA and Green’s Function Derivatives
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis study applies the nonlocal theory of elasticity to investigate the impact of a point source on the phase velocity and damping ratio phenomena of Love wave in a fiber-reinforced viscoelastic semi-infinite medium ... -
Design and Analysis of a Bionic Climbing Robot with Variable Degrees of Freedom
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractA robot with variable degrees of freedom (DOFs) is hereby proposed as a quadruped climbing robot. The proposed robot uses the trunk as the active actuator driving the motion of the four leg ends to move based on ... -
Layout Optimization of Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines Based on a Power-Predicting Neural Network
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractA novel layout optimization framework for vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) in a wind farm is developed by building a power prediction neural network and improving a 2D_k Jensen engineering wake model. First, for ... -
Microstructure Features that Most Influence the Mori–Tanaka Scheme Breakdown in 2D Solids with Crack-Like Flat Cavities
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThis study aims to detect in which microstructure conditions the Mori–Tanaka scheme is inappropriate to calculate the effective stiffness of a two-phase matrix-inclusion system. We analyze the discrepancy between ... -
Thermoelastic Response of Porous Media Considering Spatial Scale Effects of Heat Transfer and Deformation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)AbstractThermoelastic analysis is becoming important along with the miniaturization of porous media, in which size effect on heat conduction and elastic deformation increases and classical thermoelastic coupling theory is ... -
A Novel Constrained-Layer Damper for Vibration Mitigation of High-Mast Illumination Poles
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This study proposes a novel constrained-layer damper (CLD) design for reducing buffeting-induced vibration on high-mast illumination poles (HMIPs). The conventional CLD utilizes a single-piece constraining layer, making ... -
Convergence and Optimal Parameters of the Inertial Relaxed Lattice Boltzmann Method in Fluid and Solid Simulations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)This paper introduces an accelerated lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) tailored for both fluid and solid simulations, utilizing the inertial relaxed Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (IR-BGK) operator, referred to as IR-LBM. The Navier-Stokes ... -
Nonlinear Seismic Assessment of Concrete Dams Using a Novel Elastoplastic Damage Numerical Framework
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the damage modes of concrete dams under seismic loading. The employed numerical model is based on an elastoplastic damage numerical framework for concrete, which innovatively ... -
Mechanism of Elastic–Plastic Crack Initiation in Unsaturated Rock Cracks under Gas–Ice Pressure at Low Temperatures
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)While analyzing the frost heaving and cracking of rock mass in cold regions, it is generally assumed that the cracks are fully saturated. However, rock mass cracks are often in an unsaturated state in actual engineering ... -
Study on the Hysteresis Performance of Notch-Type Compliant Joints Based on Experimental and Finite-Element Simulation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The incorporation of origami-inspired structures in mechanical engineering has garnered significant attention due to their high efficiency and versatile deformation capabilities. In engineering applications such as ... -
Fluid Seepage into a Rotating Channel Filled with a Porous Medium
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Liquid or gas seeps into one side of a porous layer. Coriolis forces affect the flow due to system rotation. The problem models seepage flow into a porous rock fault under planetary rotation. Using similarity, the ... -
A New Insight into the Paradoxical Integral and Differential Constitutive Relations of Eringen Nonlocal Theory
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)Using the Eringen nonlocal theory (ENT), the integral constitutive relation (ICR) can be transformed into a corresponding differential constitutive relation (DCR). The inequivalence and equivalence between ICR and DCR have ... -
Theoretical Model of Seismic Fracture Prediction for Low-Yield-Point Steel LYP225 and Its Validation
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)The fracture of energy-dissipation components with low-yield-point (LYP) steels under seismic action may cause the progressive collapse of the structures. Therefore, it is essential to predict the fracture of various LYP ... -
Research on Mode I Crack Propagation Problem Using the Base Force Element Method Based on the Complementary Energy Principle
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A novel base force element method (BFEM) with separable interfaces based on the complementary energy principle has been proposed. The linear elastic fracture problem of mode I cracks is solved by this complementary finite ... -
Deflection Field Identification of Bridges under Goal Load Based on Mode Expansion Method with Sparse Test Points
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025)A mode expansion method combined with a sparse point impact test strategy that establishes the relationship between the sparse flexibility matrix and the static response field of a bridge under a distributed load is proposed ...