Applied Mechanics Reviews: Recent submissions

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    • Structural Dynamics with Parameter Uncertainties 

      R. A. Ibrahim (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      The treatment of structural parameters as random variables has been the subject of structural dynamicists and designers for many years. Several problems have been involved during the last few ...

    • Is Applied Mechanics a Mature Field? 

      Henry Petroski; Sammy Kayello (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)

    • Recent Advances in Ice Mechanics in Canada 

      N. K. Sinha; G. W. Timco; R. Frederking (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      Work on the mechanics of ice, which has been carried forward on a broad front in Canada, has resulted in a number of significant advances in the last 10 years. The factors influencing the ...

    • Mechanics of “Bumps” in Coal Mines: A Discussion of Violent Deformations in the Sides of Roadways in Coal Seams 

      Horst Lippmann (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      Since long ago rock bursting has belonged to the most hazardous of events causing damage to material and loss of human life in underground cavities. Nevertheless, attempts to understand the ...

    • Advance in Ice Mechanics in Finland 

      Mauri Määttänen (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      In Finland, 110 years of winter navigation has been a natural initiator of ice mechanics research. It has brought with it sea ice monitoring and statistics, ice forecasting, the testing of ...

    • Advances in Sea Ice Mechanics in the USA 

      Devinder S. Sodhi; Gordon F. N. Cox (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      A brief review of significant advances in the field of sea ice mechanics in the United States is presented in this paper. Emphasis is on ice forces on structures, as the subject relates to ...

    • Advances in Ice Mechanics in the United Kingdom 

      S. D. Hallam; T. J. O. Sanderson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      The United Kingdom has made substantial contributions during the last few years to the field of ice mechanics and ice forces on offshore structures. Experimental studies have been carried out ...

    • Developments in Plate Vibration Research 

      Arthur W. Leissa (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)

    • Advances in Ice Mechanics in West Germany 

      Joachim Schwarz (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      Ice research in West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) started after World War II with the first small ice tank built at HSVA in Hamburg in 1958. The discovery of hydrocarbons in the ...

    • A Review of Laminated Composite Plate Buckling 

      Arthur W. Leissa (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      A brief overview is presented of considerations involved in the buckling of composite plates made of laminae having continuous, parallel fibers. Such plates are governed by orthotropic or ...

    • Stable Response of Nonclassically Damped Mechanical Systems 

      D. W. Nicholson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      Selected recent literature is surveyed on several topics pertaining to the time response of a discrete, time-invariant, linear, multiple degree-of-freedom mechanical system. These topics have been ...

    • Plate Vibration Research in Japan 

      G. Yamada; T. Irie (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      A variety of plates has been extensively used as important structural elements in many industrial fields. Therefore, there have been many papers available on the vibration of plates in Japan ...

    • On Some Developments in Direct Methods of the Calculus of Variations 

      H. H. E. Leipholz (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      One of the significant events in mathematical physics, in this century, is the introduction and further development of the so-called direct methods which were first applied by Rayleigh and Ritz ...

    • Composite Laminate Components for Robotic and Machine Systems: Research Issues in Design 

      B. S. Thompson (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      Composite materials, which have already revolutionized the aerospace industry and are being increasingly utilized in the automotive industry to fabricate lightweight, high-stiffness components are ...

    • Instability of Dynamically-Loaded Structures 

      George J. Simitses (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      The article presents a review of the field of dynamic stability of structures. By structure, one means a flexible solid and therefore applications to rigid solids are excluded. Since many ...

    • Topics in Finite Elasticity: Hyperelasticity of Rubber, Elastomers, and Biological Tissues—With Examples 

      Millard F. Beatty (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      This is an introductory survey of some selected topics in finite elasticity. Virtually no previous experience with the subject is assumed. The kinematics of finite deformation is characterized ...

    • Constitutive Behavior and Testing of Structural Adhesives 

      Erol Sancaktar (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      Material characterization of structural adhesives in the bulk and bonded forms is discussed. Constitutive relations used for describing stress–strain data are reviewed. The difficulties associated ...

    • Nonlinear Vibration Analysis of Plates: A Review and Survey of Current Developments 

      M. Sathyamoorthy (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)
      This paper is concerned with the recent developments in the nonlinear vibrational analysis of plates of various geometries. Although most of the material presented here deals with geometric type ...

    • Special Issue on Ice Mechanics: Introduction 

      Jin S. Chung (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1987)

    • Energy Release Protection for Pressurized Systems. Part II: Review of Studies Into Impact/Terminal Ballistics 

      Samuel J. Brown (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1986)
      In order to assess whether or not there is a need for protection against the failure of a pressure system, the engineer must evaluate the hazards associated with rupture. The hazards are ...