... repeatability and linearity, several sensors with contact-resistance-free structures are proposed. However, due to the different geometric layouts of the conductive materials and the insulating substrates, the patterning of these sensors requires multiple processes including photolithography and etching, which...

... ranges based on the dimension of the asperities which can have dimension between 0.1 µm to 50 µm. In this work, the interface or contact patch refers to the pinned or bolted region of a component or part within a structure. The contact patch is a local area on the interface subject to fretting contact...

... that involves frictional contact is car crash, where the structural members self-contact, buckle, and slide past each other, exhibiting finite deformations and dissipating impact energy. On the interface modeling side, more recently, the mechanical response of layered architected structures has gained much...

...: songguangkai@xauat.edu.cn computational mechanics elasticity structures Journal of Applied Mechanics. Received January 02, 2023; Accepted manuscript posted March 10, 2023. doi:10.1115/1.4062136 Copyright © 2023 by ASME The Mechanics Difference Between The Outer Torus and Inner Torus Bo-Hua Sun School...

... and performance of the structural system and, to the best knowledge of the authors, were never considered from a stochastic viewpoint. Several structural features of the beam are considered, separately, as uncertain, and the stochastic characteristics of the distributions of the displacements and stresses...

...Jianzhong Zhao; Huijie Cao; Yumeng Shuai Vibration of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) is of growing interest for applications in vibration measurements, vibration energy harvesters, and vibration sensors. Among the structures and devices reported, a class of 3D structures formed...

... compression is highly nonlinear [ 1 , 2 ], with a strong sensitivity to imperfections [ 3 – 6 ]. Predicting the buckling strength of shells is a long-standing canonical problem in the structural mechanics community [ 7 , 8 ]. The classic prediction for the perfect spherical shell case was first obtained...

... to harvesting energy from various living subjects. This optimal design can be extended to other types of mechanical energy harvesters with a similar laminated structure. Fig. 4 Applications of the optimal soft-substrate sandwich FPEHs: ( a ) the photograph of a 0.6-mm-thick optimal soft-substrate sandwich...

... Mechanics Division of ASME for publication in the J ournal of A pplied M echanics . 26 01 2023 23 02 2023 24 02 2023 01 03 2023 Email: maria-holland@nd.edu Email: swang25@nd.edu Email: fjafarab@nd.edu computational mechanics structures Accepted Manuscript...

..., AR = 2 plate. The plate is flipped about its vertical axis. Fig. 5 Static structural simulation study (left), application of boundary conditions and forces (center left), typical mesh (center right), and typical deformation (right) Static structural simulation study (left), application...

... h = ∑ 1 N h k denote the total height of the laminated beam and b its width. After having briefly recalled from Ref. [ 17 ] the governing differential equations of the problem, we present the analytic solution for the structural model of cantilevered laminated glass balustrades...

.... Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME for publication in the J ournal of A pplied M echanics . 23 01 2023 03 02 2023 03 02 2023 22 02 2023 electroadhesion interface delamination three-dimensional assembly buckling reconfigurable structures energy release...

...Haoyuan Guo; Jianxun Zhang In order to enhance the load-carrying and energy-absorbing capacity of the energy-absorbing structure, a new energy-absorbing mode of a metal foam-filled sandwich circular tube (MFSC-Tube) expanded by a conical–cylindrical die under axial compression is designed...

... imperfections that can either increase or decrease the local curvature . We show that outward pointing dimples outperform inward-pointing dimples in such a structure and hence can be viewed as being favorable with regards to shell buckling under external pressure. With advances in precision manufacturing...

... 12 2022 21 12 2022 23 01 2023 self-enhancement phase field model modified lattice mechanics theory effective stiffness mechanical properties of materials stress analysis structures Lattice composites are periodic structures made up of struts that exhibit wide...

... 2022 22 12 2022 23 12 2022 23 01 2023 thin films cohesive zone modeling debonding electronics failure criteria structures National Natural Science Foundation of China 10.13039/501100001809 11521202 11890681 12032001 We may all have the experience...

...Nishant Kumar Shakya; Srikant Sekhar Padhee Elastic coupling is extensively used for passive control of modern structures. This design philosophy has been extensively explored in composite beams, which are inherently inhomogeneous and anisotropic. Such in-depth investigation is not available...

... yield more degrees-of-freedom and foster exotic mechanical couplings such as axial–shear, axial–rotation, axial–bending, and axial–twisting. However, most structural materials have been built by the ad hoc design of mechanical couplings without theoretical support of elasticity, which does not provide...

... in designing next-generation surface-based engineering systems. Fig. 1 The engineering challenge of designing a planar structure that transforms predictably to a target 3D geometry. This tutorial describes the tessellation of planar surfaces using isotropically deforming microstructures as informed...

... , J. , Pohlak , M. , Karjust , K. , Eerme , M. , Kurnitski , J. , and Shvartsman , B. , 2018 , “ New Higher Order Haar Wavelet Method: Application to FGM Structures ,” Compos. Struct. , 201 , pp. 72 – 78 . 10.1016/j.compstruct.2018.06.013 [40] Ratas , M. , Majak...