Contemporary Research in Engineering Science

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Prediction of Damage Evolution in Continuous Fiber Metal Matrix Composites Subjected to Fatigue Loading....Pages 1-24
FE Analysis of Fracture with Debonding in Ceramic/Metal Joint....Pages 25-40
Analyses of Oxide Layer Cracking Patterns of MA956 and MA956/Sapphire Composite Systems....Pages 41-54
Elastic Material with Systems of Growing or Closing Cracks: Tangential Stiffness....Pages 55-65
Generalized Dundurs Parameters and the Bimaterial Anisotropic Interfacial Crack....Pages 66-83
A Comparative Study on Three BEM Approaches for Dynamic Elastoplastic Analysis....Pages 84-96
Effective Elastoplastic Behavior of a Class of Two-Phase Composites with a Polycrystal-Like Microstructure....Pages 97-117
The T*-Integral: Definition and Use for Predicting Damage Accumulation and Fracture....Pages 118-140
Numerical Simulation of the Super Boom Problem....Pages 141-164
From Shakedown Theory to Fatigue Fracture of Ductile Materials....Pages 165-178
Computation of Stress Intensities for Edge Delamination in a Laminated Composite Strip Under Generalized Plane Deformation....Pages 179-190
Accuracy of Finite Element Solutions for Flexible Beams Using Corotational Formulation....Pages 191-203
Static and Free Vibration Analysis of Composite Plates and Shells Using a Flat Shell Element....Pages 204-237
Three-Dimensional Elasticity Solution for the Buckling of Moderately Thick Orthotropic Columns....Pages 238-253
Optimum Structural/Control Design with Robustness Constraints....Pages 254-275
Fracture Analysis of a SiC Particle Reinforced Aluminum Alloy....Pages 276-288
Case Studies in Aircraft Structural Integrity....Pages 289-300
Self-Propagating Synthesis Route to High Performance Ceramic Materials....Pages 301-319
Present-day Computing Environment....Pages 320-330
Vorticity Transport, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation Analysis in Hydrodynamic Stability....Pages 331-355
Shape Optimization of Ceramics/Metal Joint Based on Reliability....Pages 356-367
Multi-Domain Modeling of Delaminated Stiffened Composite Shells....Pages 368-392
A Unified Derivation of Explicit Expressions for Transient Asymptotic Solutions of Dynamically Propagating Cracks under the Mode I, II and III Unsteady State Conditions....Pages 393-417
A Reinvestigation of Stress-Intensity Factors for Surface and Corner Cracks in Three-Dimensional Solids....Pages 418-441
On the Role of Microcracking in the Dynamic Fracture of Polymethylmethacrylate....Pages 442-457
Relaxation Models for Normal Stresses in Turbulent Shear Flows....Pages 458-467
Finite Element Analysis of Engine Rotor Failure and Containment....Pages 468-490
Three-Dimensional Elastic-Plastic Finite Element Analysis of Crack Closure in CT Specimen....Pages 491-515
Effect of MSD on Large Damage Residual Strength....Pages 516-539
Two Dimensional Channel Flow with Uniform Boundary Suction or Source....Pages 540-562
Creep Modeling for Composite Structures....Pages 563-575
Incremental Damage Theory for Metal Matrix Composites....Pages 576-592
Three-Dimensional Solutions for Free Vibrations of Initially-Stressed Thermoelectroelastic Multilayered Plates....Pages 593-612
On the Penalty Method of Stokes Equations and Biphasic Mixture Model of Soft Hydrated Tissues....Pages 613-623
Elasto-Plastic Analysis of Rigid Frames Under Cyclic Using Minimum Loading Residual Displacement Method....Pages 624-636
A Neural Network-Based Finite Element Method on Parallel Processors....Pages 637-653
Equations for the Extension and Flexure of Relatively Thin Thermopiezoelectric Plates Subjected to Large Electric Fields....Pages 654-669
An Expansion Series for Solving Improper Cylindrical Functions Occurring in Subsonic, Supersonic and Transonic Kernel Formulations....Pages 670-685