Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Wake Vortices and Boundary Layer Interaction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026)Abstract. The interaction between wake vortices from an upstream body and a downstream boundary layer is significant for both fundamental and practical aspects of fluid mechanics. An in-depth understanding of the underlying ... -
Characterization of Bilayer Tissue Moduli and Thickness Via Eccentric Rotating Mass Dynamics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026)Abstract. The peripheral tissues consist of skin and subcutaneous tissue. Their multilayered biomechanical properties serve as key health indicators and are crucial for clinical applications. Flexible electronics offer a ... -
Mechanical Instabilities: From Failure Mechanism to Functionality
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026)Abstract. Mechanical instabilities, phenomena in which solids and structures lose stability under external stimuli, were traditionally regarded as failure mechanisms but have recently been harnessed to design various ... -
Breaking Through Flutter Barrier of Rigid-Elastic Coupling Aircraft
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026)Abstract. Flying-wing aircraft with high-aspect ratios have received extensive attention due to their outstanding aerodynamic efficiency and stealth capabilities. This type of aircraft, however, may suffer from rigid-elastic ... -
Size-Dependent Effects and Surface Roughness in Contact Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2026)Abstract. With the increasing miniaturization of mechanical systems and the prevalence of rough surfaces in engineering applications, understanding and accurately characterizing the contact response at small scales has ... -
Harnessing Nonlinear Mechanics to Transform Medical Diagnostics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Abstract. Medical diagnostics continues to be one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare, with diagnostic errors constituting the most common, costly, and harmful category of medical errors. They contribute to ... -
Kirigami Engineering: The Interplay Between Geometry and Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Abstract. Kirigami, as a scientific concept that emerges with but distinguishes from origami, provides a paradigm for engineering the mechanical properties of a surface through geometric analysis. The cutting geometry ... -
Mechanical Properties Inside Origami-Inspired Structures: An Overview
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In recent decades, origami has transitioned from a traditional art form into a systematic field of scientific inquiry, characterized by attributes such as high foldability, lightweight frameworks, diverse deformation modes, ... -
Fracture Mechanics of Magnetoelectroelastic Materials and Structures: State of the Art and Prospects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Magnetoelectroelastic (MEE) materials and structures have been extensively applied in MEE devices such as sensors and transducers, microelectromechanical systems, and smart structures. In order to assess the strength and ... -
Reduced and All-At-Once Approaches for Model Calibration and Discovery in Computational Solid Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In the framework of solid mechanics, the task of deriving material parameters from experimental data has recently reemerged with the progress in full-field measurement capabilities and the renewed advances of machine ... -
Mechanics and Dynamics of Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) are a class of materials that can transport ionic and electronic charge carriers simultaneously. They have shown broad applications in soft robotics, electrochemical ... -
A Contemporary Review and Data-Driven Evaluation of Archard-Type Wear Laws
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Archard's Wear Law and its variants have remained fundamental to wear prediction for over 70 years, despite frequent criticism regarding their simplicity and the variability of the wear coefficient. Numerous recent sliding ... -
Mechanical Properties Inside Origami-Inspired Structures: An Overview
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In recent decades, origami has transitioned from a traditional art form into a systematic field of scientific inquiry, characterized by attributes such as high foldability, lightweight frameworks, diverse deformation modes, ... -
Fracture Mechanics of Magnetoelectroelastic Materials and Structures: State of the Art and Prospects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Magnetoelectroelastic (MEE) materials and structures have been extensively applied in MEE devices such as sensors and transducers, microelectromechanical systems, and smart structures. In order to assess the strength and ... -
Reduced and All-At-Once Approaches for Model Calibration and Discovery in Computational Solid Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In the framework of solid mechanics, the task of deriving material parameters from experimental data has recently reemerged with the progress in full-field measurement capabilities and the renewed advances of machine ... -
Mechanics and Dynamics of Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) are a class of materials that can transport ionic and electronic charge carriers simultaneously. They have shown broad applications in soft robotics, electrochemical ... -
A Contemporary Review and Data-Driven Evaluation of Archard-Type Wear Laws
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Archard's Wear Law and its variants have remained fundamental to wear prediction for over 70 years, despite frequent criticism regarding their simplicity and the variability of the wear coefficient. Numerous recent sliding ... -
Recent Advances and Applications of Machine Learning in Experimental Solid Mechanics: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 7/28/2023 )For many decades, experimental solid mechanics has played a crucial role in characterizing and understanding the mechanical properties of natural and novel artificial materials. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) ... -
A Tutorial on the Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of the Electromechanical Behaviour of Soft Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1/23/2023 )Soft materials, such as liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, granular materials, and most soft biological materials, play an important role in our daily lives. From a mechanical viewpoint, soft materials can easily ... -
Models for the Interplay of Mechanics, Electrochemistry, Thermodynamics, and Kinetics in Lithium-Ion Batteries
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)We review a broad range of topics related to the interplay of electrochemistry and mechanics in all solid-state batteries. The modeling frameworks that exist in the literature are varied in terms of their sophistication ...