...Onur C. Namli; Minoru Taya A thermal energy harvester using piezo-shape memory alloy (SMA) composite was designed. The main mechanism of such a piezo-SMA composite is the synergistic effect of piezoelectrics and SMA, which are connected in series and subjected to fluctuating temperature. Strain...

...J. Li; M. Ostoja-Starzewski Fractal patterns are observed in computational mechanics of elastic-plastic transitions in two models of linear elastic/perfectly plastic random heterogeneous materials: (1) a composite made of locally isotropic grains with weak random fluctuations in elastic moduli...

... to account for the rapid spatial fluctuations as well as to capture the long-term behavior of the homogenized solution. By this approach the problem of secularity, which arises in the conventional multiple-scale higher order homogenization of wave equations with oscillatory coefficients, is successfully...

... publication of the paper itself in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS . 26 Aug 1999 27 June 2000 mechanical stability fluctuations oscillations vibrations The transverse vibration of axially moving materials subjected to parametric excitations has received considerable...