Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Electromagnetic forming and powder processing: Trends and developments
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)A comprehensive review and assessment of the electromagnetic forming process is presented. Even though electromagnetic forming is a technology known for a few decades, renewed interest in it for ... -
Stress singularities in classical elasticity–I: Removal, interpretation, and analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This review article has two parts, published in separate issues of this journal, which consider the stress singularities that occur in linear elastostatics. In the present Part I, after a brief ... -
Microscale pumping technologies for microchannel cooling systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)A review of the state of the art in micropumping technologies for driving fluid through microchannels is presented with a particular emphasis on small-scale cooling applications. An extensive ... -
Hopkinson bar experimental technique: A critical review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)A critical review of three classic papers by B Hopkinson, RM Davies, and H Kolsky, and the state-of-the-art in Hopkinson bar experimental techniques is presented. The validity and applicability ... -
Mechanics of electroelastic bodies under biasing fields
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This is a review article on the mechanics of small-amplitude motions superposed on finite biasing or initial fields in an electroelastic body. It begins with a summary of the nonlinear theory ... -
Fields, Flows and Waves: An Introduction to Continuum Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)5R1. Fields, Flows and Waves: An Introduction to Continuum Models.- (School of Math, Univ of Edinburgh, James Clerk Bldg, Kings bldg, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom).Springer-Verlag ... -
Nonlinear dynamics theory of stochastic layers in Hamiltonian systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This article reviews the history and recent development of the nonlinear dynamics theory of the stochastic layer in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. The exponentially small splitting of separatrix, ... -
Nonlinear vibrations of suspended cables—Part III: Random excitation and interaction with fluid flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This review article deals with the random excitation of nonlinear strings and suspended cables in air and fluid flow. For strings and 1D cables, the system dynamics is governed by different ... -
Stress singularities in classical elasticity—II: Asymptotic identification
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This review article (Part II) is a sequel to an earlier one (Part I) that dealt with means of removal and interpretation of stress singularities in elasticity, as well as their asymptotic ... -
Verification, validation, and predictive capability in computational engineering and physics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)Developers of computer codes, analysts who use the codes, and decision makers who rely on the results of the analyses face a critical question: How should confidence in modeling and simulation ... -
Elasticity theory, fracture mechanics, and some relevant thermal properties of quasi-crystalline materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)A review is given on the basic concepts and fundamental framework of the theory of elasticity for quasi-crystalline materials, including some 1D, 2D, and 3D quasi-crystals. The elasticity of ... -
Nonlinear vibrations of suspended cables—Part I: Modeling and analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)This review article is the first of three parts of a Special Issue dealing with finite-amplitude oscillations of elastic suspended cables. This part is concerned with system modeling and methods ... -
Boundary Element Methods for Engineers and Scientists: An Introductory Course With Advanced Topics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)11R1. Boundary Element Methods for Engineers and Scientists: An Introductory Course With Advanced Topics. - L Gaul, M Kögl, and M Wagner. Springer-Verlag, New York. 2003. 488 pp. ISBN ... -
An Introduction to this Special Issue on Nonlinear Vibrations of Suspended Cables
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)Cables, strings, and ropes are very well established construction elements in all areas of engineering; in civil, in mechanical, in electrical engineering and even in applications in space ... -
An Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis: A Computational Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)9R1. An Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis: A Computational Approach. - Edited by PK Kythe and Dongming Wei (Dept of Math, Univ of New Orleans, New Orleans LA ... -
Nonlinear vibrations of suspended cables—Part II: Deterministic phenomena
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004)The present work is concerned with deterministic nonlinear phenomena arising in the finite-amplitude dynamics of elastic suspended cables. The underlying theoretical framework has been addressed ... -
Asymptotic approaches in mechanics: New parameters and procedures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)This survey is devoted to recent achievements in the field of asymptotic approaches. Here we consider the asymptotics in relation to completely new and sometimes unexpected parameters. Some ... -
Transverse cracking and delamination in cross-ply glass-fiber and carbon-fiber reinforced plastic laminates: Static and fatigue loading
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)A review of developments and understanding of transverse cracking and delamination in cross-ply laminates is presented. First, experimental investigations reported in the literature for analyzing ... -
Review of the uses and modeling of bitumen from ancient to modern times
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)In this article, we provide a review of the uses of asphalt from ancient to modern times and we discuss the main attempts at mathematically modeling its behavior. We start with a discussion ... -
Nanomechanics of carbon nanotubes and composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003)Computer simulation and modeling results for the nanomechanics of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube-polyethylene composite materials are described and compared with experimental observations. ...