Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions

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    • Modeling, Experiment, and Fabrication of Micro-Grooved Heat Pipes: An Update 

      Balram Suman (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      The review presents an update of the work done in the micro heat pipe research and development, with an aim to give updated detailed knowledge to individuals new to the field, as well as ...

    • My Challenge in the Development of a Mixed Variational Method in Solid Mechanics 

      Tadahiko Kawai (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Approximately 130years ago, Josiah Willard Gibbs, the founder of modern thermodynamics, established the following important theorems assuming existence and positive definiteness of the strain energy ...

    • Vibration of Delaminated Composite Laminates: A Review 

      Christian N. Della; Dongwei Shu (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Fiber reinforced composite laminates are increasingly replacing traditional metallic materials. The manufacturing process and service of the composite laminates frequently lead to delamination. ...

    • Interaction of Ships and Ocean Structures With Ice Loads and Stochastic Ocean Waves 

      R. A. Ibrahim; Jeffery Falzarano; N. G. Chalhoub (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      The influence of floating ice on the dynamic behavior of ships and offshore structures depends on many factors such as ice thickness and its relative speed with respect to the floating ...

    • Free-Edge Effects in Composite Laminates 

      Christian Mittelstedt; Wilfried Becker (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      There are many technical applications in the field of lightweight construction as, for example, in aerospace engineering, where stress concentration phenomena play an important role in the design ...

    • A Review of Fuel Pre-injection in Supersonic, Chemically Reacting Flows 

      Viacheslav A. Vinogradov; Corin Segal; Yurii M. Shikhman (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Developing an efficient, supersonic combustion-based, air breathing propulsion cycle operating above Mach 3.5, especially when conventional hydrocarbon fuels are sought and particularly when liquid ...

    • Ideal Flow in Plasticity 

      Kwansoo Chung; Sergei Alexandrov (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      Ideal plastic flows constitute a class of solutions in the classical theory of plasticity based on, especially for bulk forming cases, Tresca’s yield criterion without hardening and its associated ...

    • Modeling and Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials and Structures 

      Victor Birman; Larry W. Byrd (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      This paper presents a review of the principal developments in functionally graded materials (FGMs) with an emphasis on the recent work published since 2000. Diverse areas relevant to various ...

    • On 24 Forms of the Acoustic Wave Equation in Vortical Flows and Dissipative Media 

      L. M. Campos (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      The 36 forms of the acoustic wave equation derived in an earlier review (, 2007, “ On 36 Forms of the Acoustic Wave Equation in Potential Flows and Inhomogeneous Media,” Appl. Mech. Rev., ...

    • Research on General and Axisymmetric Ellipsoidal Shells Used as Domes, Pressure Vessels, and Tanks 

      S. N. Krivoshapko (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2007)
      The principal advances in the design and construction, as well as the static, vibrational, and buckling analysis of thin-walled structures and buildings in the shape of general and axisymmetric ...

    • Review of Thermal Joint Resistance Models for Nonconforming Rough Surfaces 

      M. Bahrami; J. R. Culham; M. M. Yananovich; G. E. Schneider (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      The thermal contact resistance (TCR) in a vacuum is studied. The TCR problem is divided into three different parts: geometrical, mechanical, and thermal. Each problem includes a macro- and ...

    • Ground Effect Aerodynamics of Race Cars 

      Xin Zhang; Willem Toet; Jonathan Zerihan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      We review the progress made during the last 30years on ground effect aerodynamics associated with race cars, in particular open wheel race cars. Ground effect aerodynamics of race cars is ...

    • Reciprocity and Related Topics in Elastodynamics 

      Jan D. Achenbach (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Reciprocity theorems in elasticity theory were discovered in the second half of the 19th century. For elastodynamics they provide interesting relations between two elastodynamic states, say states ...

    • Developments in Modeling Liquefaction of Granular Soils, Caused by Cyclic Loads 

      Andrzej Sawicki; Jecek Mierczyński (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      The aim of this review article is to present historical developments of mechanics of saturated granular soils in relation to the liquefaction phenomenon, as well as to analyze the present state ...

    • Particle-Turbulence Interaction in a Homogeneous, Isotropic Turbulent Suspension 

      Christian Poelma; Gijs Ooms (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      A review is given of numerical, analytical, and experimental research regarding the two-way coupling effect between particles and fluid turbulence in a homogeneous, isotropic turbulent suspension. ...

    • Bejan’s Heatlines and Masslines for Convection Visualization and Analysis 

      V. A. Costa (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      Heatlines were proposed in 1983 by Kimura and Bejan (1983) as adequate tools for visualization and analysis of convection heat transfer. The masslines, their equivalent to apply to convection ...

    • Wave Propagation in Partially Saturated Soils 

      Frederick Bloom (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      In this article we will survey some of the methodology that has been developed in order to study the problem of wave propagation in soils or sediments; specifically, we are interested in the ...

    • Nonlinear Mechanics of Solids Containing Isolated Voids 

      Z. P. Huang; J. Wang (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      The ductile fracture of many materials is related to the nucleation, growth, and coalescence of voids. Also, a material containing voids represents an extreme case of heterogeneous materials. ...

    • Constitutive Models for Wave Propagation in Soils 

      Frederick Bloom (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      A survey is provided of the various constitutive models that have been used to study the phenomena of wave propagation in soils. While different material models have been proposed for the ...

    • Review of the Governing Equations, Computational Algorithms, and Other Components of the Models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System 

      Daewon Byun; Kenneth L. Schere (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006)
      This article describes the governing equations, computational algorithms, and other components entering into the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system. This system has been designed ...