Applied Mechanics, Volume 4, Issue 1

Understanding the effect of staking sequences and identifying the damage occurring within a structure using a structural health monitoring system are the keys to an efficient design of composite-based parts. In this research, a combination of digital...

Turbo machines develop faults in the rotating blades during operation in undesirable conditions. Such faults in the rotating blades are fatigue cracks, mechanical looseness, imbalance, misalignment, etc. Therefore, it is crucial that the blade faults...

Here, a comparative investigation of data-driven, physics-based, and hybrid models for the fatigue lifetime prediction of structural adhesive joints in terms of complexity of implementation, sensitivity to data size, and prediction accuracy is presen...

The counterpart for Euler’s buckling problem is Greenhill’s problem, which studies the forming of a loop in an elastic beam under torsion. In the context of twisted shafts, the optimal shape of the beam along its axis is searched. A prior...

Every aerodynamic optimization is proceeded by a parameterization of the studied aerial object, and due to its influence on the final optimization process, careful attention should be made in choosing the appropriate parameterization method. An aerod...

The aim of this study is to develop a new method to predict the effective elastic and thermal behavior of heterogeneous materials using Convolutional Neural Networks CNN. This work consists first of all in building a large database containing microst...

It is our main objective to find the critical load for three beams with cross sectional heterogeneity. Each beam has three supports, of which the intermediate one is a spring support. Determination of the critical load for these beams leads to three...

The Kirchhoff analogy between the oscillation of a pendulum (in the time domain) and the static bending of an elastic beam (in the spatial domain) is applied to the stability analysis of an inverted pendulum on a vibrating foundation (the Kapitza pen...

This study aims to understand the mechanical properties of cellulose nanofibers (CNFs), a nano-sized material element of woods or plants. We develop all-atom (AA) molecular dynamics models of cellulose microfibrils (CMFs), which are the smallest cons...

This article presents the static performance of composite steering knuckle due to drive on an equivalent road, including different types of roughness and maneuvers. To achieve this purpose, the driving of a full-vehicle model was simulated using the...