Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Multiphase Poroelastic Finite Element Models for Soft Tissue Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)During the last two decades, biological structures with soft tissue components have been modeled using poroelastic or mixture-based constitutive laws, i.e., the material is viewed as a deformable ... -
Addendum to: Bibliography of Monographs and Surveys on Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)The bibliography collected by Ahmed K Noor, Bibliography of monographs and surveys on shells, Applied Mechanics Reviews 43(9) 223–234 (1990), ASME Book No AMR078, contains 411 books, 98 conference ... -
Dynamics and Control of Coherent Structure in Turbulent Jets
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Effective Elastic Properties of Cracked Solids: Critical Review of Some Basic Concepts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)The problem of effective moduli of cracked solids is critically reviewed. Various approaches to the problem are discussed; they are further assessed by comparing their predictions to results for ... -
Extensile Cracking in Porous Rock Under Differential Compressive Stress
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)Under differential compressive stress rocks exhibit nonlinear deformation that includes initial compaction, near-linear elastic behavior, and strain-hardening followed by strain-softening and dilation ... -
A Micromechanics-Based Model for Creep Behavior of Rock
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)Recently, various ideas on underground development have been proposed and associated technical problems have been studied. One of the issues of concern is the prediction of the long-term behavior ... -
Effect of Loading Path and Porosity on the Failure Mode of Porous Rocks
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)Grain crushing and pore collapse are the dominant compaction mechanisms in high porosity clastic rocks. These micromechanical processes control the evolution of strain hardening during cataclastic ... -
Special Issue on Micromechanical Modelling of Quasi-Brittle Materials Behavior: Introduction
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Recent Developments in the Force Method of Structural Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)The development of the force method of structural analysis has been hindered by the difficulty of generating a suitable maximal set of independent self-equilibrating stress systems, known as ... -
Finite Element Analysis of Aeroelasticity of Plates and Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)A review of the finite element method applied to the problem of supersonic aeroelastic stability of plates and shells is presented. The review is limited to linear models. Some new contributions ... -
Erratum: “Dynamics of Periodic and Near-Periodic Structures” [Applied Mechanics Reviews, 1992, 45(11), pp. 447–459]
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Computational Models for High-Temperature Multilayered Composite Plates and Shells
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)The focus of this review is on the hierarchy of composite models, predictor-corrector procedures, the effect of temperature-dependence of material properties on the response, and the sensitivity ... -
Dynamics of Periodic and Near-Periodic Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1992)A brief review of linear waves and dynamic behavior of both periodic and near-periodic structures is presented in this paper. Emphasis is placed on a summary of more recent studies of engineering ... -
Rough-Wall Turbulent Boundary Layers
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)This review considers theoretical and experimental knowledge of rough-wall turbulent boundary layers, drawing from both laboratory and atmospheric data. The former apply mainly to the region above ... -
Effect of Loading Sequence on the Fatigue Life of Notched Specimens Made From Steel and Aluminium Alloys
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)A statistical parameter which can be derived from the Markov matrix has been defined in order to characterize the intermixture of random loading fluctuations. By means of this intermixture ... -
Influence of Stress State on the Failure Behavior of Cracked Components Made of Steel
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)One of the decisive factors influencing the safety of components is the capacity for plastic deformation of the material employed. This depends not only on the actual material properties, such ... -
Heat Transfer in Superconducting Films
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)Thin films that are superconducting above liquid-nitrogen temperature possess promising applications in electronics and sensor technology. The design, the characterization and the processing of ... -
Multibody Dynamics — Modeling and Analysis Methods
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)A review of recent developments in multibody dynamics modeling and analysis is presented. Multibody dynamics is one of the fastest growing fields of applied mechanics. Multibody systems are ... -
Random Heterogeneous Media: Microstructure and Improved Bounds on Effective Properties
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)The purpose of the present article is to review recent advances made in the determination and calculation of improved bounds on the effective properties of random heterogeneous media that depend ... -
Structure of Mixing Layers and Jets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1991)This article is intended as a brief review of the substantial progress that has been made in recent years regarding our understanding of the structure of incompressible mixing layers and jets. ...