Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions
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Inclusion Problems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)The present review on inclusion problems emphasizes papers published after 1982. Materials associated with inclusions are composite materials, precipitated or transformed alloys, porous media, and ... -
Optimal Structural Design Under Creep Conditions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)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 ... -
Fracture Mechanics Made Easy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)The R6 method of evaluating the integrity of cracked structures was devised to provide a standardised procedure with the following objectives: to provide a method of analysis for failure ... -
Japanese Research Activities on Offshore Fracture Mechanics Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)The brittle fracture, for its catastrophic nature, is one of the most important factors for designing offshore structures especially operating in the cold sea. Fracture mechanics method can ... -
Opportunities for Application of Fracture Mechanics for Offshore Structures
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)The aim of this paper is to identify fracture-critical problems in the offshore industry and to match them with fracture mechanics techniques emanating from applications in other areas. To set ... -
About the Authors
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Multidiscipline Design Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)While formal optimization techniques are seeing increasing use within individual disciplines, application of this technology to the more general multidiscipline design problem is less common. This ... -
Conventional and Unconventional Plastic Response and Representation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)The development and the present state of a few key aspects of the theory of plasticity are sketched as a guide to the literature for those new to or not centrally involved in the subject. ... -
Boiling Heat Transfer in Liquid Metals
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)This article presents the state-of-the-art review of boiling heat transfer in various liquid metals paying attention to research papers published in the last 15 years. Particular emphasis is ... -
Approaches to the Automatic Generation and Control of Finite Element Meshes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)This review paper discusses the algorithmic approaches being taken to the development of finite element mesh generators capable of automatically discretizing general domains without the need for ... -
Inverse Problems for Multi-Dimensional Parabolic Partial Differential Equations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)The parabolic inverse boundary value problem is defined, and the major characteristics common to multi-dimensional parabolic inverse problems are discussed. These include sensitivity to measurement ... -
Special Issue on Fracture Mechanics in Offshore Industry: Introduction
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Thermophysical Properties Research on Fluids at the Technology Frontier: Status of Current Research
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)Key information strongly needed for development of new technologies includes thermophysical property data of various substances, such as high temperature molten semiconductor materials, nonazeotropic ... -
Finite Element Methods in Probabilistic Structural Analysis: A Selective Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)This review examines the field of structural analysis where finite element methods (FEMs) are used in a probabilistic setting. The finite element method is widely used, and its application in ... -
Stochastic Averaging Methods in Random Vibration
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)A survey of stochastic averaging methods in random vibration is given. After a brief introduction to the basic ideas, the advantages and the history of the methods, three kinds of stochastic ... -
Inverse Design and Active Control Concepts in Strong Unsteady Heat Conduction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)A summary of recent research in the field of inverse design and optimization of coolant flow passages in the internally cooled configurations is presented. The methodology allows design engineers ... -
An Introduction to Thermal Engineering Research in Japan
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Random Vibration
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Response 1 to “Scholarship, Funding, and the Academic Way of Life” (1988, Appl. Mech. Rev., 41, pp. 281–282)
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A Review of Certain Inverse Methods for the Design of Ducts With 2- or 3-Dimensional Potential Flow
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1988)This article reviews the author’s work on inverse methods of flow-field design with prescribed velocity distributions on the boundaries. Such design methods are of some importance, because these ...