Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Ballistic Impact of Dry Woven Fabric Composites: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This paper reviews the topic of ballistic impact of dry woven fabric composites. It highlights previous work done in modeling the fabrics and the theory involved. Attention is also given to ... -
Optimal and Robust Control of Fluid Flows: Some Theoretical and Computational Aspects
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)In this article, we review from the mathematical and numerical points of view some of the recent progresses in the area of flow control. -
Transition in Wall-Bounded Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)In this paper, we present direct comparisons of experimental results on transition in wall-bounded flows obtained by flow visualizations, hot-film measurement, and particle-image velocimetry, along ... -
Stresses, Singularities, and a Complementary Energy Principle for Large Strain Elasticity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)This article reviews three aspects of large strain elasticity. First, various conjugate stress tensors to strain tensors are reviewed. Many researchers have studied the theory of large strain ... -
Dynamic Elastic-Plastic Buckling of Structural Elements: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Structural elements, which deform inelastically, are often used in energy-absorbing devices due to their simple design and the high efficiency achieved by several buckling deformation mechanisms. ... -
Recent General Solutions in Linear Elasticity and Their Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)A review is given on the progress in the study of general solutions of elasticity and their applications since 1972. Apart from summarizing and remarking the development of the general solution ... -
On the Stress Singularities at Multimaterial Interfaces and Related Analogies With Fluid Dynamics and Diffusion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Joining of different materials is a situation frequently observed in mechanical engineering and in materials science. Due to the difference in the elastic properties of the constituent materials, ... -
Asymptotic and Probabilistic Approach to Buckling of Structures and Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The general theory of elastic stability invented by (1945, “ On the Stability of Elastic Equilibrium,” Ph.D. thesis, Delft, Holland) motivated the development of a series of asymptotic approaches ... -
A Review of H∞ Robust Control of Piezoelectric Smart Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Robust vibration control of piezoelectric actuated smart structures has attracted substantial interest in recent years. Such control laws are desirable for systems where guaranteed stability or ... -
Dry and Wet Contact Modeling of Multilayered Rough Solid Surfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)Adhesion, friction/stiction, and wear are among the main issues in various commercial applications, including magnetic storage devices, microelectromechanical systems, and nanoelectromechanical systems, ... -
Two-Phase Flow Patterns and Flow-Pattern Maps: Fundamentals and Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)A comprehensive review of the studies of gas-liquid two-phase flow patterns and flow-pattern maps at adiabatic and diabatic conditions is presented in this paper. Especially, besides other ... -
Analysis of Flow in Fractal Porous Media
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2008)The flow in porous media has received a great deal of attention due to its importance and many unresolved problems in science and engineering such as geophysics, soil science, underground water ... -
Assessment of Recent Theories for Predicting Failure of Composite Laminates
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)It has still not been shown that current failure theories can be accurate for all loading configurations, boundary conditions, layups, and thicknesses of composite laminates. A comprehensive ... -
Modeling of Elastic, Thermal, and Strength/Failure Analysis of Two-Dimensional Woven Composites—A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)The usage of textile structures as a reinforcement for polymer composites became essential in many industrial applications in, for example, the marine and aerospace industries because of their ... -
Nonlinear Components of Ship Wake Waves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Nonlinear components of wakes from large high-speed ships at times carry a substantial part of the wake energy and behave completely differently compared to the classical Kelvin wave system. ... -
Integral Equation Methods for Multiple Crack Problems and Related Topics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)The content of this review consists of recent developments covering an advanced treatment of multiple crack problems in plane elasticity. Several elementary solutions are highlighted, which are ... -
On 36 Forms of the Acoustic Wave Equation in Potential Flows and Inhomogeneous Media
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)The starting point in the formulation of most acoustic problems is the acoustic wave equation. Those most widely used, the classical and convected wave equations, have significant restrictions, ... -
Research Advances in the Dynamic Stability Behavior of Plates and Shells: 1987–2005—Part I: Conservative Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This paper reviews most of the recent research done in the field of dynamic stability/dynamic instability/parametric excitation/parametric resonance characteristics of structures with special attention ... -
The Analytical Method in Geomechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)This article presents an overview of the application of analytical methods in the theories of elasticity, poroelasticity, flow, and transport in porous media and plasticity to the solution of ... -
Electroelasticity Relations and Fracture Mechanics of Piezoelectric Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)Three-dimensional (3D) constitutive equations of piezoelectric (PZ) plates and shells are considered for inverse linear and electrostrictive (quadratic) piezoeffects. Prestressed multilayer PZ shells ...