...Hamid Ghaednia; Xianzhang Wang; Swarna Saha; Yang Xu; Aman Sharma; Robert L. Jackson In typical metallic contacts, stresses are very high and result in yielding of the material. Therefore, the study of contacts which include simultaneous elastic and plastic deformation is of critical importance...

... September 23, 2017; final manuscript received October 3, 2017; published online November 2, 2017. Editor: Harry Dankowicz. 23 09 2017 03 10 2017 Adhesion Elasticity Experimental mechanics Mechanical interfaces Nanomechanics One of the basic laws of friction dictate “force...

... Corresponding author. Manuscript received January 26, 2016; final manuscript received August 22, 2016; published online October 3, 2016. Assoc. Editor: Xiaodong Li. 26 01 2016 22 08 2016 Aeroelasticity Composite materials Computational fluid dynamics Dynamics Elasticity...

.... Editor: Ellen Kuhl. 01 02 2015 30 06 2015 Biomaterials Biomechanics Composite materials Computational mechanics Elasticity Mechanical properties of materials Tissue Mechanics POP is an abnormality of pelvic floor support suffered by millions of women in the U.S. [ 1 – 4...

..., the element connectivity is performed by using kinematic and static conditions, so that displacements and stresses are continuous across the element boundaries. Numerical investigations integrate this survey by giving details on the subject. Computational mechanics Dynamics Elasticity Structures...

...B. Karp; D. Durban Research studies aiming at examination and formulation of a dynamic analog to Saint-Venant’s principle (DSVP) are critically reviewed. Article concentrates on isotropic homogeneous linear elastic response over a range of structural geometries including waveguides, with either...

... general form stated by Boussinesq and Love is not true. 26 12 2008 14 04 2011 14 04 2011 27 06 2011 28 06 2011 elasticity Saint-Venant’s Principle in elasticity has its history of over 100 years [( 1 2 )]. The first and important researches...

...C. W. Lim; X. S. Xu Many of the early works on symplectic elasticity were published in Chinese and as a result, the early works have been unavailable and unknown to researchers worldwide. It is the main objective of this paper to highlight the contributions of researchers from this part...

... that is intended to be an “analog” of real masonry cannot resist tensile stress but possibly behaves elastically under pure compression, opening a perspective on the adoption of the no-tension (NT) material constitutive assumption. Founded on the NT theory, the basic direction and aim of the present work...

... important porosity and high heterogeneity. In a first approximation, their structure is periodic and resembles a three-dimensional truss. Several attempts of simulating the behavior of these tissues have been made by different researchers in the framework of classical elasticity. However, the ad hoc...

.../devices toward reducing the hydroelastic responses of VLFS are also reviewed. 21 01 2010 23 04 2010 02 07 2010 02 07 2010 elasticity hydrodynamics ocean waves offshore installations oscillations plates (structures) seawater antimotion devices very large floating...

... (load, displacement, fracture time, and fracture toughness), such as theoretical formula, optical gauges, and strain gauges; and (d) an update of modeling and simulation of loading configurations. Fundamental issues associated with stress-wave loading, such as stress-wave propagation along the elastic...

... approximants and asymptotically equivalent functions; correlation between conductivity and elastic properties of composites; and strength, damage, and boundary effects in composites. This article is based on a review of 205 references. For a small volume fraction of inclusions, c ⪡ c max , one...

... structural members. In particular, studies on the dynamic response of axially loaded idealized elastic-plastic models, rods, shells with circular and square cross sections, and long tubes are discussed with consideration given to the influence of the geometric and material characteristics as well...

...Kiyohiro Ikeda; Kazuo Murota The general theory of elastic stability invented by Koiter (1945, “On the Stability of Elastic Equilibrium,” Ph.D. thesis, Delft, Holland) motivated the development of a series of asymptotic approaches to deal with the initial postbuckling behavior of structures...

...M. Z. Wang; B. X. Xu; C. F. Gao A review is given on the progress in the study of general solutions of elasticity and their applications since 1972. Apart from summarizing and remarking the development of the general solution method in literature, this review aims to present the readers...

...Yu-Chen Gao; Ming Jin; Guan-Suo Dui This article reviews three aspects of large strain elasticity. First, various conjugate stress tensors to strain tensors are reviewed. Many researchers have studied the theory of large strain elasticity. Many stress tensors including the Cauchy stress tensor...

... of plies of fiber reinforced plastics or other materials. A well known stress concentration problem rich in research tradition is the so-called free-edge effect. Mainly explained by the mismatch of the elastic material properties between two adjacent dissimilar laminate layers, the free-edge effect...

...Y. Z. Chen The content of this review consists of recent developments covering an advanced treatment of multiple crack problems in plane elasticity. Several elementary solutions are highlighted, which are the fundamentals for the formulation of the integral equations. The elementary solutions...

...A. P. S. Selvadurai This article presents an overview of the application of analytical methods in the theories of elasticity, poroelasticity, flow, and transport in porous media and plasticity to the solution of boundary value problems and initial boundary value problems of interest to geomechanics...