Mechanics Research Communications, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 655-662, 1994 Copyright © 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Pergamon Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0093-6413/94 $6.00 + .00 MECHANICS Research Communications Volume 21, 1994 LIST OF CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX List of Contents to Volume 21, 1994 MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Vol. 21, No. 1 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications M.J. KAISER, K.L. KAISER and Critical Charge Relationship for Spherical Droplets of W.L. WEEKS Perfect and Imperfect Insulative Liquids V.I. LEVITAS Plasticity Theory of Microinhomogeneous Materials at Large Strain Gradient V.V. MELESHKO and A.M. GOMILKO On the Bending of Clamped Rectangular Plate S. KALISZKY and J. LOGO Extremum Principles for the Analysis and Optimal Design of Structures Composed of Bilinear, One- Dimensional Elements H. KOLSCH : On the Identification of Parameters for Structural Members Exhibiting Static Hysteresis N.C. CHARALAMBAKIS Non-uniform Straining of Ductile Materials Under Slowly Varying Shear Strain J.S. LEE and L.Z. JIANG A Boundary Integral Formulation and 2D Fundamental Solution for Piezoelastic Media M. MARTY, M. LARINI and R. SAUREL Influence d’une Injection de Masse Parietale sur L’Ecoulement Autour d’un Cylindre J.F. SHAO, M. BEDERIAT and < Elasto-viscoplastic Modelling of a Porous Chalk CH. SCHROEDER A. ROSSANI The Dispersion Relation for a Discrete Velocity Model of a Gas Mixture with Chemical Reactions A.P.S. SELVADURAI £ Separation at a Pre-fractured Bi-Material Geological Interface B. BHUSHAN, G. SINGH and Postbuckling of Elliptical Plates G. VENKATESWARA RAO : (Contents continued) 656 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 21 E.G. LADOPOULOS Nonlinear-Integro-Differential Equations in Sandwich Plates Stress Analysis Announcements 34th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, February 16-17, 1994, Tel-Aviv and Haifa, Israel CISM Preliminary Programme 1994 MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Vol. 21, No. 2 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications C. MENDOZA : A Theorem for Rayleigh’s Method of Dimensional Analysis and its Proof J. TEJCHMAN and W. WU Numerical Study on Interface Between Sand and Steel R.M. CHRISTENSEN and R.E. GLASER Life Prediction for Graphite Epoxy Fiber Compos- ites C. RAJU, A.K. SREEKANTH and z Impact Pressure Measurements in a High- J. KURIAN Speed Rarefied Flow R. SUBBA REDDY GORLA, V. KRISHNAN Natural Convection Flow of a Power Law and I. POP Fluid Over a Vertical Frustum of a Cone Under Uniform Heat Flux Conditions R.L. BATRA and M. EISSA Laminar Forced Convection Heat Transfer of a Sutterby Model Fluid in an Eccentric Annulus J.P. JARIC 5: On the Conditions for the Existence of a Plane of Symmetry for Anisotropic Elastic Material D. ZICHEN 3 The Application of Substructural Method in Nonlin- ear Control System S.H.-Y. LAI Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Rotating Piezo-Bonded Beam Mass System D.D. BARAN Mathematical Models Used in Studying the Chaotic Vibration of Buckled Beams X. XU and X. XU Deriving a Viscoelastic Constitutive Equation From Solid-Fluid Interactions (Contents continued) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 21 657 M. PAKDEMIRLI A Comparison of Two Perturbation Methods for Vibrations of Systems with Quadratic and Cubic Nonlinearities Announcements International Conference on Stability of Structures, June 7-9, 1995, Coimbatore, India 19th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Kyoto International Conference Hall, August 25-31, 1996, Kyoto, Japan MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Vol. 21, No. 3 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications A. ELIPE and V. LANCHARES Biparametric Quadratic Hamiltonians on the Unit Sphere: Complete Classification W. BLAJER and W. SCHIRM A Projective Criterion for Variable Partitioning in Analyses of Constrained Mechanical Systems Y. ZHANG, S. CHEN and Q. LIU : The Sensitivity of Multibody Systems with Respect to a Design Variable Matrix D. MURRAY a Normal Form Investigations of Dissipative Systems G. LOSI Numerical Methods for the Study of Localization in Elastoplastic Solids P. LU Stroh Type Formalism for Unsymmetric Laminated Plate L.J. JACOBS and X. LEE 55 An Integral Equation Method in Dynamic Fracture Mechanics R.C. SHI, F.X. MEI and H.P. ZHU On the Stability of the Motion of a Birkhoffian System V.I. LEVITAS : Thermomechanical Description of Pseudoelasticity-- The Threshold-Type Dissipative Force with Discrete Memory A.J. CHAMKHA Unsteady Flow of a Dusty Conducting Fluid Through a Pipe (Contents continued) 658 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 21 R.K. TRIPATHI, A. SAU and G. NATH Laminar Free Convection Flow Over a Cone Em- bedded in a Stratified Medium Announcements Eleventh World Conference on Earthquake Engi- neering, June 23-28, 1996, Acapulco, Mexico MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Vol. 21, No. 4 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications F. HILD and A. BURR Localization and Ultimate Tensile Strength of Fiber- Reinforced Ceramic-Matrix Composites L. HAOYUN A New Variational Principle in Linear Elasticity F.A. ROCHINHA and H.S. COSTA MATTOS A Nonlinear Theory for Elastic Bars Under Tension G. TOMASI Comportement d’une Poutre Stratifiee Avec Glisse- ment Interlaminaire A. DROZDOV Accretion of Viscoelastic Bodies at Finite Strains N.L. DUNG Prediction of Particle Strengthening of Ductile Matrix Materials C.V. MASSALAS, V.K. KALPAKIDIS and Some Comments on the Extended Tiersten’s G. FOUTSITZI Theory of Thermoelectroelasticity L. VERZURA A Macroscopic Strength Criterion for Continuous Thread Reinforced Soil A. ABAD, A. ELIPE and M. VALLEJO Automated Fourier Series Expansions of Elliptic Functions G. POOTS and P.L.I. SKELTON Snow Accretion on Horizontal Rotating Conductor Rods S.P. MILADINOVA Dynamic Coating Meniscus Between Two Parallel Plates P. CAPODANNO Existence des Petites Oscillations d’une Colonne Liquide dans un Container de Revolution en Rota- tion en Apesanteur Three Dimensional Stagnation Point Flow of a Viscoelastic Fluid (Contents continued) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 21 K. RANGACHARI, S.C. RAJAN A Semi-Analytic Method for the Evolution of and A. KRISHNAN Closed Vortex Sheets Announcements 35th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sci- ences, February 15-16, 1995, Tel-Aviv and Haifa, Israel First International Symposium on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics, June 5-7, 1995, Shizuoka Uni- versity, Hamamatsu, Japan Fifth International Conference, SPT-5, Structural Failure, Product Liability and Technical Insurance, July 10-14, 1995, Vienna, Austria 1993 CISM Report MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Vol. 21, No. 5 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications L. FLORIA On the Definition of the Delaunay-Similar Canon- ical Variables of Scheifele M. BELHAQ and A. FAHSI Repeated Resonances to Chaos in Forced Oscillators A.V. GRINKEVICH and A.L. SMIRNOV The Algorithm of the Transformations of a System of Linear Differential Equations to the Standard Form M.V. DULGER % A Spectral Model for Steady-State Homogeneous Turbulence S.C. RAJAN : Unification of ideal Fluid and Rigid Body Kinemat- ics D.Y. KASTURE Nusselt Number for Steady Poiseiulle Flow Through a Pipe A.J. CHAMKHA Thermal Convection in a Particle-Laden Boundary Layer P. MAJORS and E. KREMPL Comments on Induced Anisotropy, the Swift Effect, and Finite Deformation Inelasticity S.H.-Y. LAI S Geometrically Nonlinear Transient Analysis of a Rotating Beam Structure Carrying a Static Payload (Contents continued) 660 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 21 G.A. KARDOMATEAS On the Fully Plastic Flow Past a Growing Asym- metric Crack and its Relation to Machining Me- chanics V. BIRMAN Life Span of Imperfect Composite Columns Sub- jected to Creep A.E. GHONEIMY and C.E. MANESCHY Steady State Shearing Deformation of a Generalized Neo-Hookean Material N.I. IOAKIMIDIS Various Theoretical Applications of the Maximum Modulus Principle to the Experimental Method of Caustics M. KURODA Finite Element Simulations of Large Elasto-Plastic Deformation with Different Spin Tensors Y. BERTHAUD, C. FOND and P. BRUN Effect of Interactions on the Stiffness of Cracked Media Announcements Le 2™ Congres de Mécanique, 10-13 Avril 1995, Faculté des Sciences Ain Chok, Casablanca, Maroc Fifteenh Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics - CANCAM °95, May 28-June 2, 1995, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada The Fourth International Conference "Lavrentyev Readings on Mathematics, Mechanics and Physics,” July 3-7, 1995, Kazan, Russia Twenty-fourth Midwestem Mechanics Conference, October 1-4, 1995, Iowa State University, Ames, U.S.A. Symposium on Recent Developments in Theories of Viscoplasticity, November 12-17, 1995, San Fran- cisco, U.S.A. MECHANICS RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Vol. 21, No. 6 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications L. VERZURA Stability Analysis of a Wall Made of Continuous Thread Reinforced Soil H.S. YU and S.W. SLOAN Limit Analysis of Anisotropic Soils Using Finite Elements and Linear Programming (Contents continued) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 21 661 C.-H. LU and R.M. EVAN-IWANOWSKI The Nonstationary Effects on a Softening Duffing Oscillator H.V. NGUYEN and J. PASTOR Mechanical Behavior of Linear Viscoelastic Com- posites: A Prediction Method and Experimental Testing E.A. SHIROKOVA The Exact Solution of the Plane Elasticity Problem for the Symmetric Airfoil Cracks S. CHEN, Z. QIU and D. SONG A New Method for Computing the Upper and Lower Bounds on Frequencies of Stuctures with Interval Parameters Effects of Initial Shapes on the Natural Frequencies of a Beam with Initial Curvature and Axial Con- straints L.Y. CHEN, J.T. CHEN, C.H. CHEN and Free Vibrations of a SDOF System with Hysteretic H.-K. HONG Damping P. LU and O. MAHRENHOLTZ A Variational Boundary Element Formulation for Piezoelectricity M. GRINFELD On the Plateau-Rayleigh Instability of Truncated Cylinder A. AVUDAINAYAGAM and J. GEETHA Oscillatory Stokes Flow in Two Dimensions K.R. RAJAGOPAL, M. MASSOUDI and Flow of Granular Materials Between Rotating Disks A.S. WINEMAN E. DANIEL, J.C. LORAUD, M. LARINI and Cooling of a Gaseous Nozzle Flow by Injection of R. SAUREL Liquid Droplets A.J. CHAMKHA Flow of Non-Newtonian Particulate Suspension with a Compressible Particle Phase Announcements In Memoriam - Paul M. Naghdi Contents and Author Index, Vol. 21, 1994