Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions

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    • Review of Applications of Nonlinear Normal Modes for Vibrating Mechanical Systems 

      Avramov, Konstantin V.; Mikhlin, Yuri V. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper is an extension of the previous review, done by the same authors (Mikhlin, Y., and Avramov, K. V., 2010, “Nonlinear Normal Modes for Vibrating Mechanical Systems. Review of Theoretical Developments,â€‌ ASME ...

    • Finite Temperature Quasi Continuum 

      Tadmor, E. B.; Legoll, F.; Kim, W. K.; Dupuy, L. M.; Miller, R. E. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      A generalization of the quasicontinuum (QC) method to finite temperature is presented. The resulting “hotQCâ€‌ formulation is a partitioned domain multiscale method in which atomistic regions modeled via molecular dynamics ...

    • Thermomechanics of Solids With Lower Dimensional Energetics: On the Importance of Surface, Interface, and Curve Structures at the Nanoscale. A Unifying Review 

      Javili, A.; McBride, A.; Steinmann, P. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      Surfaces and interfaces can significantly influence the overall response of a solid body. Their behavior is well described by continuum theories that endow the surface and interface with their own energetic structures. ...

    • Cable Modeling and Internal Damping Developments 

      Spak, Kaitlin; Agnes, Gregory; Inman, Daniel (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)
      This paper reviews models of helical cable behavior with an emphasis on recent models that study internal cable damping. Cable models are categorized into three major classes consisting of thin rod models, semicontinuous ...

    • Models of Solvent Penetration in Glassy Polymers With an Emphasis on Case II Diffusion. A Comparative Review 

      S. Bargmann; A. T. McBride; P. Steinmann (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      The objective of this review is to provide an overview and a classification of the key literature on models of non-Fickian case II type diffusion. Several extensive review articles concerning ...

    • Bayesian Methods for Updating Dynamic Models 

      Ka-Veng Yuen; Sin-Chi Kuok (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Model updating of dynamical systems has been attracting much attention because it has a very wide range of applications in aerospace, civil, and mechanical engineering, etc. Many methods were ...

    • A Comprehensive Review of Drop Impact Modeling on Portable Electronic Devices 

      Y. H. Yau; Shijie Norman Hua (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This article is dedicated to the review of publications on drop impact analysis performed on consumer electronic devices such as cellular phones and two-way radios in the past decade. Prior ...

    • Gyrostabilizer Vehicular Technology 

      Nicholas C. Townsend; Ramanand A. Shenoi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This paper examines the current state of gyrostabilizer vehicular technology. With no previous description of the wide range and variety of gyrostabilizer technology, this paper provides a review ...

    • On Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows 

      Giancarlo Alfonsi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      The direct numerical simulation of turbulence (DNS) has become a method of outmost importance for the investigation of turbulence physics, and its relevance is constantly growing due to the ...

    • Some Topics in Recent Advances and Applications of Structural Impact Dynamics 

      X. M. Qiu; T. X. Yu (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This paper reviews some topics related to the advances and applications of structural impact dynamics in recent years. Dynamic behavior of structural members including tubes, beams and plates ...

    • Frontiers in the Constitutive Modeling of Anisotropic Shock Waves 

      Alexander A. Lukyanov; Steven B. Segletes (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Studies of anisotropic materials and the discovery of various novel and unexpected phenomena under shock loading has contributed significantly to our understanding of the behavior of condensed ...

    • Nanofluids and Their Properties 

      Gianluca Puliti; Samuel Paolucci; Mihir Sen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Nanofluids belong to a new class of fluids with enhanced thermophysical properties and heat transfer performance. A broad spectrum of applications in science and engineering could potentially ...

    • Saint-Venant’s Principle in Dynamics of Structures 

      B. Karp; D. Durban (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Research studies aiming at examination and formulation of a dynamic analog to Saint-Venant’s principle (DSVP) are critically reviewed. Article concentrates on isotropic homogeneous linear elastic ...

    • Recent Advances and Emerging Applications of the Boundary Element Method 

      Y. J. Liu; S. Mukherjee; N. Nishimura; M. Schanz; W. Ye; A. Sutradhar; E. Pan; N. A. Dumont; A. Frangi; A. Saez (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a workshop on the boundary element method (BEM) was held on the campus of the University of Akron during September 1–3, 2010 (NSF, 2010, ...

    • A Unified Library of Nonlinear Solution Schemes 

      Sofie E. Leon; Anderson Pereira; Eduardo N. Lages; Ivan F. M. Menezes; Glaucio H. Paulino (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Nonlinear problems are prevalent in structural and continuum mechanics, and there is high demand for computational tools to solve these problems. Despite efforts to develop efficient and effective ...

    • Quantification of Computational Uncertainty for Molecular and Continuum Methods in Thermo-Fluid Sciences 

      Dimitris Drikakis; Nikolaos Asproulis (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This paper presents a review of computational uncertainties in scientific computing, as well as quantification of these uncertainties in the context of numerical simulations for thermo-fluid ...

    • On the Analysis of Minimum Thickness in Circular Masonry Arches 

      Giuseppe Cocchetti; Giada Colasante; Egidio Rizzi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      In this paper, the so-called Couplet–Heyman problem of finding the minimum thickness necessary for equilibrium of a circular masonry arch, with general opening angle, subjected only to its own ...

    • Hull Slamming 

      Serge Abrate (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      This report presents an in-depth review of the current state of knowledge on hull slamming, which is one of several types of slamming problems to be considered in the design and operation ...

    • Instability in Stratified Shear Flow: Review of a Physical Interpretation Based on Interacting Waves 

      Jeffrey R. Carpenter; Edmund W. Tedford; Eyal Heifetz; Gregory A. Lawrence (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      Instability in homogeneous and density stratified shear flows may be interpreted in terms of the interaction of two (or more) otherwise free waves in the velocity and density profiles. These ...

    • Cohesive Zone Models: A Critical Review of Traction-Separation Relationships Across Fracture Surfaces 

      Kyoungsoo Park; Glaucio H. Paulino (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011)
      One of the fundamental aspects in cohesive zone modeling is the definition of the traction-separation relationship across fracture surfaces, which approximates the nonlinear fracture process. ...