Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions

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    • Optimal Structural Design Under Creep Conditions 

      Michał Życzkowski (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)
      Optimal design of structures, or rather just of simple structural elements working under creep conditions, belongs to the most recent branches of structural optimization. It was initiated by ...

    • Bearing Capacity of Floating Ice Covers Subjected to Static, Moving, and Oscillatory Loads 

      Arnold D. Kerr (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)
      This review article presents a survey of analyses and tests of bearing capacity of floating ice covers when subjected to (1) Static loads of short duration, (2) Static loads of long duration, ...

    • Natural Mode Method: A Practicable and Novel Approach to the Global Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates and Shells 

      John Argyris; Lazarus Tenek (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)
      An overview of the natural mode method is presented, as applied in the linear and geometrically nonlinear analysis of multilayered composite plates and shells of arbitrary geometry. The method ...

    • Main Polish Historical and Modern Sources on Applied Mechanics 

      J. J. Telega; R. Wojnar (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)
      The aim of this article is to present the list of books by Polish scientists on applied mechanics in a rather broad sense. An effort was made to cover the last century. Previous Polish ...

    • Erratum: “Highlights in the Historical Development of the Porous Media Theory: Toward a Consistent Macroscopic Theory” [Applied Mechanics Reviews, 1996, 49(4), pp. 201–262] 

      R. de Boer (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)

    • Wall/Vortex-Ring Interactions 

      R. Verzicco; P. Orlandi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)
      This review article presents a state-of-the-art review of the ring and wall interactions in the case of normal and oblique collisions. The different approaches used to study this flow and the ...

    • Modern Developments in Flow Control 

      Mohamed Gad-el-Hak (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1996)
      This brief article reviews the important advances in the field of flow control that took place during the past few years. This broad area of research remains of great interest for its numerous ...

    • Ray Method for Solving Dynamic Problems Connected With Propagation of Wave Surfaces of Strong and Weak Discontinuities 

      Yuriy A. Rossikhin; Marina V. Shitikova (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The aim of the article is to review the literature devoted to the solution of wave dynamics problems resulting in the propagation of nonstationary surfaces (volume waves) or lines (surface ...

    • Numerical Simulations of Coherent Vortices in Turbulence 

      Marcel Lesieur; Pierre Comte; Olivier Métais (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      After presenting the general features of turbulent flows and coherent vortices, we discuss the major progress brought by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to the understanding of coherent vortices ...

    • Layout Optimization of Structures 

      G. I. N. Rozvany; M. P. Bendso̸e; U. Kirsch (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Layout or topology optimization deals with the selection of the best configuration for structural systems and constitutes one of the newest and most rapidly expanding fields of structural design, ...

    • Anisotropic Symmetries of Linear Elasticity 

      S. C. Cowin; M. M. Mehrabadi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The objective of this paper is to present a development of the anisotropic symmetries of linear elasticity theory based on the use of a single symmetry element, the plane of mirror symmetry. ...

    • Material Forces: Concepts and Applications 

      Gérard A. Maugin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The unifying notion of material force which gathers under one vision all types of driving “forces” on defects and smooth or abrupt inhomogeneities in fracture, defect mechanics, elastodynamics ...

    • Review of Recent Advances in the Study of Unsteady Turbulent Internal Flows 

      G. J. Brereton; R. R. Mankbadi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Turbulent flow which undergoes organized temporal unsteadiness is a subject of great importance to unsteady aerodynamic and thermodynamic devices. Of the many classes of unsteady flows, those ...

    • R-Functions in Boundary Value Problems in Mechanics 

      V. L. Rvachev; T. I. Sheiko (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Described are the concepts and applications of the R-functions theory in continuum mechanics boundary value problems which model fields of different physical natures. With R-functions there appears ...

    • Some Basic Thermoelastic Problems for Nonhomogeneous Structural Materials 

      Yoshinobu Tanigawa (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The focus of this review is on the method of analytical development of thermoelastic problems for nonhomogeneous materials, such as functionally gradient materials (FGM). For such nonhomogeneous ...

    • Transient Heat Transfer in Extended Surfaces 

      A. Aziz; Allan D. Kraus (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive, coherent, and methodical review of the existing literature on the transient performance of extended surfaces (fins). With the exception of very ...

    • Biomechanics of Growth, Remodeling, and Morphogenesis 

      Larry A. Taber (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      This review deals with biomechanical aspects of growth (mass change), remodeling (property change), and morphogenesis (shape change) in living systems. The emphasis is on theoretical models, but ...

    • Bibliography on Skin Friction Reduction With Polymers and Other Boundary-Layer Additives 

      Richard H. Nadolink; Wayne W. Haigh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      This bibliography on skin friction reduction with boundary-layer additives including polymers, surfactants, disoaps, micelles, and particulates, covers over a seventy-year period from 1922 through ...

    • Dynamic Processes in Structural Thermo-Viscoplasticity 

      Hans Irschik; Franz Ziegler (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      A multiple field theory dates back to developments in linear thermo-elasticity where the thermal strain is considered to be imposed on the linear elastic background structure in an isothermal ...

    • Modeling Sediment-Turbulent Flow Interactions 

      C. Villaret; A. G. Davies (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Models of widely differing complexity have been used in recent years to quantify sediment transport processes for engineering applications. This paper presents a review of these model types, ...