Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Scholarly Materials Dedicated to Professor Granata and Professor Librescu

Refereed journal articles
 
H. Aref

A note on the energy of relative equilibria of point vortices

Physics of Fluids 19, 103603 (2007)
 

R. C. Batra and N. M. Hassan

Blast resistance of unidirectional fiber reinforced composites

Composites B 39, 513-536 (2008)

 

A. K. De, A. Mukhopadhyay and I. K. Puri

Lattice Boltzman method simulation of electroosmotic stirring in a microscale cavity

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Short Communication (in press)

 

Liviu Librescu, Sang-Yong Oh, and Jörg Hohe

Implication of Nonclassical Effects on Dynamic Response of Sandwich Structures Exposed to Underwater and In-Air Explosions

Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 51, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 83-93

 

S. D. Ross and D. J. Scheeres

Multiple gravity assists, capture, and escape in the restricted three-body problem

SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems 6, 576-596 (2007)

 

A. Sinha, R. Ganguly, A. K. De and I. K. Puri

Single magnetic particle dynamics in a microchannel

Physics of Fluids 19, 117102 (2007)

 

M. A. Stremler and J. Chen

Generating topological chaos in lid-driven cavity flow

Physics of Fluids 19, 103602 (2007)

 

M. Sun and M. W. Hyer

Use of Material Tailoring to Improve Buckling Capacity of Elliptical Composite Cylinders

AIAA Journal 46, 770-782 (2008)

 

R. De Vita, I. W. Stewart, and D. J. Leo

Pressure effects on the equilibrium configurations of bilayer lipid membranes

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 40, 13179-13196 (2007)

 

G. M. Zhang, R. C. Batra and J. Zheng

Effect of frame size, frame type, and clamping pressure on the ballistic performance of soft body armor

Composites B 39, 476-489 (2008)

 

Z. Qin, R.C. Batra

Local slamming impact of sandwich composite hulls

International Journal of Solids and Structures 46 (2009) 2011–2035

 

In memory of friend, colleague and hero

International Journal of Solids and Structures
Volume 46, Issue 10, 15 May 2009, Pages 1995-1996
Special Issue in Honor of Professor Liviu Librescu

 

Isaac Elishakoff, Demetris Pentaras
Design of heterogeneous clamped circular plates with specified fundamental natural frequency
Volume 46, Issue 10, 15 May 2009,Pages 1997-2010

 

Z. Qin, R.C. Batra
Local slamming impact of sandwich composite hulls
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009,Pages 2011-2035

 

Dewey H. Hodges, Wenbin Yu, Mayuresh J. Patil
Geometrically-exact, intrinsic theory for dynamics of moving composite plates
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2036-2042

 

Yeoshua Frostig
Elastica of sandwich panels with a transversely flexible core—A high-order theory approach
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2043-2059

 

W. Akl, A. El-Sabbagh, K. Al-Mitani, A. Baz
Topology optimization of a plate coupled with acoustic cavity
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2060-2074

 

I. Shufrin, O. Rabinovitch, M. Eisenberger
Elastic nonlinear stability analysis of thin rectangular plates through a semi-analytical approach
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2075-2092

 

K.S. Alfredsson, J.W. Gillespie Jr., L.A. Carlsson, T.A. Bogetti, A. Yiournas
Flexure analysis of unsymmetric orthotropic beams with an interlayer
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2093-2110

 

Mahmood Jabareen, Izhak Sheinman
Stability of imperfect stiffened conical shells
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2111-2125

 

Attilio Milanese, Pier Marzocca, Mels Belubekyan, Karen Ghazaryan
Effect of the stiffness and inertia of a rib reinforcement on localized bending waves in semi-infinite strips
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2126-2135

 

Guy M. Genin, Victor Birman
Micromechanics and structural response of functionally graded, particulate-matrix, fiber-reinforced composites
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2136-2150

 

Maurizio Paschero, Michael W. Hyer
Axial buckling of an orthotropic circular cylinder: Application to orthogrid concept
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2151-2171

 

D.J. Hasanyan, S. Harutyunyan
Magnetoelastic interactions in a soft ferromagnetic body with a nonlinear law of magnetization: Some applications
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2172-2185

 

Peretz P. Friedmann, Bryan Glaz, Rafael Palacios
A moderate deflection composite helicopter rotor blade model with an improved cross-sectional analysis
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2186-2200

 

Peter A. Gustafson, Anthony M. Waas
The influence of adhesive constitutive parameters in cohesive zone finite element models of adhesively bonded joints
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2201-2215

 

Renfu Li, George A. Kardomateas, George J. Simitses
Point-wise impulse (blast) response of a composite sandwich plate including core compressibility effects
International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 2009, Pages 2216-2223

 

Wesley C.H. Slemp, Rakesh K. Kapania
Imposing boundary conditions in Sinc method using highest
derivative approximationI

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 230 (2009) 371_392

 

Conference proceedings
 

J. A Norris, A. P. Marsh, K. P. Granata and S. D. Ross

Positive feedback in powered exoskeletons: Improved metabolic efficiency at the cost of reduced stability?

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference,

IDETCS/CIE 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7 (2007). Paper DET2007-35657, 8pp.

 
Other materials
 

Professor Liviu Librescu (1930-2007)

Mathematical Methods and Physicomechanical Fields 50(2), 191-193 (2007)

(An appreciation in the Scientific journal of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

 

K. Reifsnider and S. Case

Life prediction based on material state changes in ceramic materials

ASME Turbo Expo, Montreal, Canda, May 14-17 (2007)

(Presentation)

 

W. C. H. Slemp and R. K. Kapania

Analysis of plates and beams using modified sinc method based on interpolation of highest derivative

9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, California, July 23-26, 2007

(Abstract and presentation)

 

R. De Vita, I. W. Stewart, and D. J. Leo

Small Deformations of Planar Bilayer Lipid Membranes

Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting, September 26-29, 2007, Los Angeles, California, USA

(Abstract, poster presentation)