Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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A State-of-the-Art Review on Hemming: A Materials Processing Technology for Mechanical Joints
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Hemming is a material processing technology widely used in major sectors such as automotive and aerospace industries. As a mechanical joining process, hemming is applied to sheet metal components to build structural ... -
Design of Acoustic/Elastic Phase Gradient Metasurfaces: Principles, Functional Elements, Tunability, and Coding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)Acoustic/elastic metasurfaces as a kind of two-dimensional metamaterials are of subwavelength thickness and show remarkable ability of acoustic/elastic wave manipulation. They have potential applications in various fields ... -
Constant Torque Mechanisms: A Survey
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)This work gives an overview of all types of constant torque mechanisms (CTMs) based on both function and structure. Based on their architecture, they can be divided into five distinct categories, which all have their ... -
Free-Edge Effects in Composite Laminates—A Review of Recent Developments 2005–2020
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)The design and analysis of composite structures in the form of layered plates or shells is often driven by stress concentration phenomena that occur due to geometric or material discontinuities. One prominent example is ... -
Fiber- and Particle-Reinforced Composite Materials With the Gurtin–Murdoch and Steigmann–Ogden Surface Energy Endowed Interfaces
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Modern advances in material science and surface chemistry lead to creation of composite materials with enhanced mechanical, thermal, and other properties. It is now widely accepted that the enhancements are achieved due ... -
A Critical Review of Physical Models in High Temperature Multiphase Fluid Dynamics: Turbulent Transport and Particle-Wall Interactions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This review article examines the last decade of studies investigating solid, molten, and liquid particle interactions with one another and with walls in heterogeneous multiphase flows. Such flows are experienced in ... -
Evolution of the Laser-Induced Spallation Technique in Film Adhesion Measurement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Laser-induced spallation is a process in which a stress wave generated from a rapid, high-energy laser pulse initiates the ejection of surface material opposite the surface of laser impingement. Through knowledge of the ... -
Lagrangian Transport and Chaotic Advection in Three-Dimensional Laminar Flows
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Transport and mixing of scalar quantities in fluid flows is ubiquitous in industry and Nature. While the more familiar turbulent flows promote efficient transport and mixing by their inherent spatio-temporal disorder, ... -
Bio-Inspired Vibration Isolation: Methodology and Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Various bio-inspired vibration isolators have been emerged in recent decades and applied successfully in the protection of sensitive components, improvement of operating comfort, enhancement of control accuracy, etc. They ... -
Performance and Manufacturing of Silicon-Based Vapor Chambers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper reviews recent progress in the development of silicon-based vapor chambers for heat spreading in electronic packages. Effective hotspot mitigation is an increasingly challenging issue in electronics thermal ... -
Mixed Convection in Pipe and Duct Flows With Strong Magnetic Fields
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)An imposed strong magnetic field suppresses turbulence and profoundly changes the nature of the flow of an electrically conducting fluid. We consider this effect for the case of mixed convection flows in pipes and ducts, ... -
Shear Bands in Materials Processing: Understanding the Mechanics of Flow Localization From Zener's Time to the Present
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Shear banding is a material instability in large strain plastic deformation of solids, where otherwise homogeneous flow becomes localized in narrow micrometer-scale bands. Shear bands have broad implications for materials ... -
Wear Problems of High-Speed Wheel/Rail Systems: Observations, Causes, and Countermeasures in China
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Wear problems of wheel/rail systems occurring on the Chinese high-speed railway network in the last decade are summarized and explained together with the corresponding experience of treating them. Focus is placed on uneven ... -
Dynamics Modeling of Topologically Simple Parallel Kinematic Manipulators: A Geometric Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Dynamics modeling is indispensable for the design and control of dexterous parallel kinematic manipulators/machines (PKM). Various modeling approaches proposed in the literature build upon the classical formulations for ... -
A Review of Damping Models for Structures With Mechanical Joints1
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In a standard design practice, it is often necessary to assemble engineered structures from individually manufactured parts. Ideally, the assembled system should perform as if the connections between the components were ... -
Design Principles and Function of Mechanical Fasteners in Nature and Technology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Probabilistic mechanical fasteners are used to provide secure, reversible, and repeatable attachments in both nature and industry. Since the first observation of this mechanism in nature, which led to the creation of ... -
Fatigue of Metallic Glasses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Metallic glasses (MGs) are often perceived as quintessential structural materials due to their superior mechanical properties such as high strength and large elastic limit. In practical applications, service conditions ... -
Tunable and Active Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of unit cells. This emerging class of ... -
Kinetostatic and Dynamic Modeling of Flexure-Based Compliant Mechanisms: A Survey
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Flexure-based compliant mechanisms are becoming increasingly promising in precision engineering, robotics, and other applications due to the excellent advantages of no friction, no backlash, no wear, and minimal requirement ... -
Buckling and Post-Buckling of Thin-Walled Composite Laminated Beams—A Review of Engineering Analysis Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Thin-walled beams made of laminated composite materials are increasingly used in any engineering branch where structural weight is one of the major aspects in the design process of load bearing structures. Quite naturally, ...