Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions

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    • Coastal Bottom Boundary Layers 

      J. F. A. Sleath (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Turbulent boundary layers in oscillatory flow are reviewed. These boundary layers show a thin inner layer with similar characteristics to wall layers in steady flow. Above this, there is an ...

    • Simple Models of Human Movement 

      R. McN. Alexander (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Many mathematical models of human movement have sought to represent as much as possible of the complexity of the human body but others, the subjects of this review, are extremely simple. Some ...

    • Cavitation in Nonlinearly Elastic Solids: A Review 

      C. O. Horgan; D. A. Polignone (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Cavitation phenomena in nonlinearly elastic solids have been the subject of extensive investigation in recent years. The impetus for much of these theoretical developments has been supplied by ...

    • Measurement of Suction in Materials Which Swell 

      A. M. Ridley; J. B. Burland (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Swelling is the process of volume expansion, usually brought about by the intake of water. One mechanism by which water can be drawn into a material is if the material has less water than ...

    • Special Issue on Sediment Transport Mechanisms in Coastal Environments and Rivers 

      R. D. Rajaona (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)

    • Transport of Water in a Biconstituent Elastic Medium 

      I. Mrani; J. C. Bénet; G. Fras (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      A phenomenological equation is established for water transport in a biconstituent, isotropic, isothermal elastic medium. The equation includes a term related to the water content gradient and a ...

    • Injection of Fluid Into a Layer of Deformable Porous Medium 

      Steven Barry; Geoffrey Aldis; Geoffry Mercer (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The flow of fluid from a point source into a layer of deformable porous material is considered. The main applications of this work are to subcutaneous injections and subterranean soil flows. ...

    • Effect of Grain Sorting on the Formation of Bedforms 

      Giovanni Seminara (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Grain sorting is a process observed in fluvial, coastal, and estuarian environments whereby the selective transport of different fractions of a sediment mixture gives rise to a non-uniform spatial ...

    • Suspended Sediment Concentration Profiles 

      Peter Nielsen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      An evaluation is given of the methods of modeling concentration profiles of suspended non-cohesive sediments in natural streams and under waves. The bottom boundary condition and the distribution ...

    • Measurements and Analysis of Flow Velocity and Sediment Concentration at the Seabed 

      D. Myrhaug; O. H. Slaattelid; R. L. Soulsby; K. F. Lambrakos (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      A review of flow velocity and sediment concentration measurements on field sites is given, but the main emphasis is on the data analysis results of near-bottom measurements of flow velocities ...

    • Some Remarks About Mechanics of Porous Elastically Deformable Media 

      S. Naili; O. Le Galo; D. Geiger (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The traditional tools of continuum mechanics are used to describe the behavior of a solid elastic matrix saturated with a viscous fluid. Conservation equations for mass and momentum, (with ...

    • Experimental Investigation of Water Soaked Wood at Uniaxial and Biaxial States of Stress 

      M. Kowal; S. J. Kowalski (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      It is possible to observe a significant difference in swelling strains of unstressed and stressed water soaked wood. This paper points out that the swelling strains depend not only on the ...

    • Relationship of Salt Disparity and Its Consequence for Swelling in Biological Gels 

      Stuart Hodson; Richard Earlam (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      New irreversible thermodynamic relationships are derived which explain why biological tissues tend to swell. In the course of their derivation, fresh concepts arize. In particular, the relationship ...

    • Phenomenological Approach to Flow and Volume Change in Soils and Other Media 

      J. R. Philip (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      We review the phenomenological approach, on the macroscopic or Darcy scale, to flow and volume change in clays and other swelling media. The formulation represents the generalization to media ...

    • Thermodynamics of Phase Transitions in Porous Media 

      Reint de Boer (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Under certain circumstances, phase transitions can occur in porous media consisting of a porous solid saturated with liquids and gases, for example, due to a freezing process, the liquid or ...

    • State Surfaces of Partially Saturated Soils: An Effective Pressure Approach 

      Gabriella Bolzon; Bernhard A. Schrefler (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      State surfaces may be given by interpolation of experimental data or may represent the integration of linear or nonlinear elastic constitutive equations. Anelastic behavior may also be considered ...

    • Mechanical Basis of Cell Morphogenesis and Volume Control 

      J. Bereiter-Hahn; J. Litniewski; S. Yastas (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Osmotic differences between the cytoplasm and the surrounding fluid belong to the most important factors in shaping an animal tissue cell. This implies an elastic and contractile fibrillar system ...

    • Ettringite-Induced Swelling in Soils: State-of-the-Art 

      Dimitris Dermatas (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Reactions between lime, alumina released from clay during pozzolanic reactions, and sulfates present in some soils, have been responsible for the deterioration and ultimate failure, by expansion, ...

    • Mechanical Behavior of a Non-Saturated Soil Swelling Nonhydrostatically 

      Theodoros K. Karalis (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      The effects of the external constraints on the rigidity of a non-saturated soil swelling nonhydrostatically by imbibing water are examined in some detail. The expression for the deficit of the ...

    • Extrudate Swelling: Physics, Models, and Computations 

      Tasos C. Papanastasiou; Dionissios G. Kiriakidis; Theodore G. Nikoleris (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1995)
      Viscous, viscoelastic, or elastic normal stresses are superimposed to pressure within flowing fluids. These stresses act normal to the boundaries of the flow that may deform depending on their ...