Contemporary Research in Engineering Science

Prediction of Damage Evolution in Continuous Fiber Metal Matrix Composites Subjected to Fatigue Loading.- FE Analysis of Fracture with Debonding in Ceramic/Metal Joint.- Analyses of Oxide Layer Cracking Patterns of MA956 and MA956/Sapphire Composite Systems.- Elastic Material with Systems of Growing or Closing Cracks: Tangential Stiffness.- Generalized Dundurs Parameters and the Bimateriai Anisotropic Interfacial Crack.- A Comparative Study on Three BEM Approaches for Dynamic Elastoplastic Analysis.- Effective Elastoplastic Behavior of a Class of Two-Phase Composites with a Polycrystal-Like Microstructure.- The T*-Integral: Definition and Use for Predicting Damage Accumulation and Fracture.- Numerical Simulation of the Super Boom Problem.- From Shakedown Theory to Fatigue Fracture of Ductile Materials.- Computation of Stress Intensities for Edge Delamination in a Laminated Composite Strip Under Generalized Plane Deformation.- Accuracy of Finite Element Solutions for Flexible Beams Using Corotational Formulation.- Static and Free Vibration Analysis of Composite Plates and Shells Using a Flat Shell Element.- Three-Dimensionai Elasticity Solution for the Buckling of Moderately Thick Orthotropic Columns.- Optimum Structural/Control Design with Robustness Constraints.- Fracture Analysis of a SiC Particle Reinforced Aluminum Alloy.- Case Studies in Aircraft Structural Integrity.- Self-Propagating Synthesis Route to High Performance Ceramic Materials.- Present-day Computing Environment.- Vorticity Transport, Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation Analysis in Hydrodynamic Stability.- Shape Optimization of Ceramics/Metal Joint Based on Reliability.- Multi-Domain Modeling of Delaminated Stiffened Composite Shells.- A Unified Derivation of Explicit Expressions for Transient Asymptotic Solutions of Dynamically Propagating Cracks Under the Mode I, II and III Unsteady State Conditions.- A Reinvestigation of Stress-Intensity Factors for Surface and Corner Cracks in Three-Dimensional Solids.- On the Role of Microcracking in the Dynamic Fracture of Polymethylmethacrylate.- Relaxation Models for Normal Stresses in Turbulent Shear Flows.- Finite Element Analysis of Engine Rotor Failure and Containment.- Three-Dimensional Elastic-Plastic Finite Element Analysis of Crack Closure in CT Specimen.- Effect of MSD on Large Damage Residual Strength.- Two Dimensional Channel Flow with Uniform Boundary Suction or Source.- Creep Modeling for Composite Structures.- Incremental Damage Theory for Metal Matrix Composites.- Three-Dimensional Solutions for Free Vibrations of Initially-Stressed Thermoelectroelastic Multilayered Plates.- On the Penalty Method of Stokes Equations and Biphasic Mixture Model of Soft Hydrated Tissues.- Elasto-Plastic Analysis of Rigid Frames Under Cyclic Loading Using Minimum Residual Displacement Method.- A Neural Network-Based Finite Element Method on Parallel Processors.- Equations for the Extension and Flexure of Relatively Thin Thermopiezoelectric Plates Subjected to Large Electric Fields.- An Expansion Series for Solving Improper Cylindrical Functions Occurring in Subsonic, Supersonic and Transonic Kernel Formulation.