Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Rewiew of Fracture and Fatigue in Ceramic Matrix Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2000)A review of recent developments and state-of-the-art in research and understanding of damage and fatigue of ceramic matrix composites is presented. Both laminated as well as woven configurations ... -
An Invitation to Review Article Authors for the New Era of Applied Mechanics Reviews
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Microplane Constitutive Model and Metal Plasticity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2000)The microplane model is a versatile constitutive model in which the stress-strain relations are defined in terms of vectors rather than tensors on planes of all possible orientations, called ... -
Analysis of Viscous Effects on Cavitation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2000)Mechanical engineers often are forced to be concerned with cavitation in flows near bodies or within machinery. Viscous effects on cavitation introduce difficulties in design, because these effects ... -
Adventures in Applied Mechanics
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Optimal Protection From Impact and Shock: Theory and Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2000)This review article gives a historical perspective of the achievements in the theory and methods of optimization of isolation systems and outlines the most important results, including some ... -
Nonholonomic Mechanics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2000)This is a concise review of nonholonomic mechanics. It deals with the fundamental concepts, variational principles, equations of motion, special problems, integration methods, algebraic structure, ... -
Contemporary Progress in Porous Media Theory
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2000)In the last decade and, in particular in recent years, the macroscopic porous media theory has made decisive progress concerning the fundamentals of the theory and the development of mathematical ... -
Waves in Solids
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Residual Stress Measurement by Successive Extension of a Slot: The Crack Compliance Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)This article reviews the technical literature on the determination of a residual stress profile by successive extension of a slot and measurement of the resulting strains or displacements. This ... -
Interaction of Waves in Solid Mixtures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)The focus of this review article is on analytical procedures and physical effects which are characteristic of the theory of nonlinear and simple waves in materials. Waves are supposed to ... -
Dynamic Instabilities in Mechanics of Structures
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Recent Advances in Sensing and Control of Flexible Structures Via Piezoelectric Materials Technology
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)Due to their special characteristics, piezoelectric materials can be used in distributed behavior sensing and control of flexible structures. These materials are usually incorporated with the ... -
Review of Dual Boundary Element Methods With Emphasis on Hypersingular Integrals and Divergent Series
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)This article provides a perspective on the current status of the formulations of dual boundary element methods with emphasis on the regularizations of hypersingular integrals and divergent series. ... -
Dynamic Analysis of Plates by Boundary Elements
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)A review of boundary element methods for the numerical treatment of free and forced vibrations of flexural plates is presented. The integral formulation and the corresponding numerical solution ... -
Mechanics of Cylindrical Shells With Non-Circular Cross-Section: A Survey
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)This article presents a review of the research work related to the mechanical behavior of non-circular cylindrical shells and shell segments. To this end, after a brief reference to the basic ... -
Influence of Loading Rate on the Interlaminar Fracture Properties of High Performance Composites - A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)A number of workers have investigated the effect of varying loading rate on the interlaminar fracture properties of fibre reinforced composite materials. In spite of such efforts, a study of ... -
Geometry and Strength of General Helicoidal Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)The geometry of helical surfaces has been well studied. Several available methods of strength analysis of helicoidal shells give one a choice in solving one-dimensional or two-dimensional problems. ... -
On the Importance of Shell Buckling Experiments
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Progress in Structural Dynamics With Stochastic Parameter Variations: 1987-1998
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1999)This article is an update of an earlier paper by Ibrahim (1987) and is aimed at reviewing the work published during the last decade in the area of vibration of structures with parameter ...