Mechanics Research Communications, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 643-651, 1996 Perg = Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0093-6413/96 $12.00 + .00 PIT S0093-6413(96)90070-5 MECHANICS Research Communications Volume 23, 1996 LIST OF CONTENTS AND AUTHOR INDEX List of Contents to Volume 23, 1996 Vol. 23, No. 1 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications M. CIARLETTA and E. SCARPETTA Some Results on Thermoelasticity for Porous Piezo- electric Materials D.Y. GAO Nonlinear Elastic Beam Theory with Application in Contact Problems and Variational Approaches G. BORINO, P. FUSCHI and C. Elastic-Plastic-Damage Constitutive Models with C. POLIZZOTTO Coupling Internal Variables B. WU Compound Buckling of a Strut with a Lateral Elas- tic Support at Center B.S. ALTAN, H.A. EVENSEN and Longitudinal Vibrations of a Beam: A Gradient E.C. AIFANTIS Elasticity Approach R.M. HAYTHORNTHWAITE and Plane Strain inG ranulMaerdi a T. QUABILI L. STAGNI A Unified Treatment of the Elliptic Inhomogeneity with a Slipping Interface under Line-Singularity Loading A. ZOLOCHEVSKY The Formulation of Constitutive Equations for Fibre-Reinforced Composites with Different Behav- iour in Tension and Compression C. PRAX and H. SADAT Co-Located Diffuse Approximation Method for Two Dimensional Incompressible Channel Flows P. ROYER, J.L. AURIAULT and Macroscopic Behavior of Gas Flow with Adsorption T. STRZELECKI Through a Fractured Porous Medium P. CAPODANNO Etude mathématiques des petites oscillations de deux liquides pesants non miscibles dans un - container (Contents Continued) 644 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 N.D. NANOUSIS The Unsteady Hydromagnetic Thermal Boundary Layer with Suction S. FIRASAT ALI and E.A. IBRAHIM Coincidence of Turbulent-Nonturbulent Interface and Hot-Cold Interface in a Plane Turbulent Wake M.A. YUKSELEN Superposition Technique for Two Dimensional Po- tential Flow Around Multi-Element Aerofoils Announcements CISM Programme 1996. Fifth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics, PACAM V, January 2-4, 1997, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Society of Engineering Science 33rd Annual Tech- nical Meeting, October 20-23, 1996, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Vol. 23, No. 2 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications A. ABAD and F. BELIZON Potential of Attraction for an Elliptic Ring M.L. MARTINS-COSTA and Constitutive Relations for the Energy Transfer in R.M. SALDANHA DA GAMA Nonsaturated Continuous Mixtures B. BURNAYEV Small Perturbations in the Medium of Variable Mass L. ZHAO and Q. CHEN A New Equivalent Nonlinearization Method for Random Vibrations of Nonlinear Systems H.S. COSTA MATTOS and Modeling the Necking of Tension Members Using F.E.G. CHIMISSO a Theory of Rods F. DELL’ISOLA and L. ROSA Perturbation Methods in Torsion of Thin Hollow Saint-Venant Cylinders L CHEIKH, C. PAUCHON, Nonlinear Stability of a Defective Cylindrical Shell C.-H. LAMARQUE, A COMBESCURE and RJ. GIBERT AN. BERCIN Natural Frequencies of Cross-Ply Laminated Singly Curved Panels Q. WANG, X. JI and Y. WANG 3D Axisymmetric Analysis of a Cracked Fiber in a Transversely Isotropic Elastic Medium (Contents Continued) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 645 A. TYLIKOWSKI Dynamic Stability of Rotating Composite Shafts Q. YU and H.P. LEE Optimum Design of Cam Mechanisms with Oscil- lating Flat-Face Followers J. STEFANIAK Waves Generated by a Plane Source of Dilatation in a Viscoelastic Medium J. ATKOCIONAS Quadratic Programming for Degenerate Shakedown Problems of Bar Structures L. GAUL and C. FIEDLER The Hybrid Boundary Element Method in Elastody- namics I. BAYCHEV Finite Element Method for Frames with Variable Characteristics I. BAYCHEV Fixed-Hinged Beam Finite Elements Used for Dy- namic Analyis of Frames J.J. ZHANG, F.F. AFAGH and C.L. TAN Boundary Integral Transformation of Body-Force Volume Integral in BEM for 2D Anisotropic Elas- ticity Announcements 4th World Congress on Experimental Heat Trans- fer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, ExHFT 4, June 2-6, 1997, Brussels, Belgium. Second International Symposium on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics, THERMAL STRESSES’97, June 8-11, 1997, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. 14th Intemational Conference on Structural Me- chanics in Reactor Technology, SMiRT 14, August 17-22, 1997, Lyon, France. Vol. 23, No. 3 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications P.M. MARIANO Nother’s Theorem in the Elastic Dynamics of Microcracked Bodies P. BISEGNA and R. LUCIANO Bounds on the Off-Diagonal Coefficients of the Homogenized Constitutive Tensor of a Composite Material (Contents Continued) 646 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 V.K. KALPAKIDIS On the Dynamical Theory of ThermoelastiDci - electrics with Polarization Inertia J.F. SHAO and R. KHAZRAEI A Continuum Damage Mechanics Approach for Time Independent and Dependent Behaviour of Brittle Rock S. AMARNATH and K.R.Y. SIMHA Torsion of Half-Space with Lined Cylindrical Hole QZ. XIAO, C.C. WU and M.G. HUANG A Study on the Dual Integral of J R.H. RAND Dynamics of a Nonlinear Parametrically-Excited PDE: 2-Term Truncation On Numerical Continuation of Families of Periodic Orbits in a Parametric Potential Yet Another Proof of the Il-Theorem Rotation of a Slotted Cylinder in a Fluid at Low Reynolds Number - Implication on the No-Slip Condition for Grates A.A. ABDEL-RAHMAN, S.F. AL-FAHED The Near-Field Characteristics of Circular Jets at and W. CHAKROUN Low Reynolds Number H.S. TAKHAR and G. NATH Unsteady Three-Dimensional Flow Due to a Stretching Flat Surface Announcements Third International Conference on Composites Engineering, July 21-26, 1996, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. 35th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Washington State University, September 27-30, 1998, Pullman, Washington, US.A. Vol. 23, No. 4 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications Z.-Q. CHENG, W. LIANG and D. CHEN Ponding Problem of Plates in Nonlinear Nature F. MAROTTI DE SCIARRA Compatible Mixed Formulations for Elastoplastic Models F. PASSARELLA Some Results in Micropolar Thermoelasticity P. SAFFRE, A. BERGERET, J.L. LIGIER A Four-Layered Self-Consistent Scheme Applied and J. PASTOR to Two-Phase Composites (Contents Continued) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 647 P.K. RAJENDRAKUMAR and S.K. BISWAS Elastic Contact Between a Cylindrical Surface and a Flat Surface - A Non-Hertzian Model of Mullti- Asperity Contact M. BELHAQ and A. FAHSI Homoclinic Bifurcations in Self-Excited Oscillators S. JACOB, K.M. PATIL, L.H. BRAAK Stresses in a 3D Two Arch Model of a Normal and A. HUSON Human Foot T. BALKAN A Load Control System for Mobile Cranes K.R. RAJAGOPAL and M. RUZICKA On the Modeling of Electrorheological Materials E.A. IBRAHIM Satellite Drop Formation in a Swirling Liquid Jet I. POP and T.-Y. NA Unsteady Flow Past a Stretching Sheet Announcements Chandrasekhar Memorial Symposium, 33rd Annual Technical Meeting, ASME, Arizona State Universi- ty, October 20-23, 1996, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. 25th Midwestern Mechanics Conference, South Da- kota School of Mines and Technology, September 21-24, 1997, Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.A. Vol. 23, No. 5 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications New Integrable Problems in the Dynamics of Rigid Bodies with the Kovalevskaya Configuration. I - The Case of Axisymmetric Forces New Integrable Problems in the Dynamics of Rigid Bodies with the Kovalevskaya Configuration. II - The Case of Asymmetric Forces D. HUILIER and H. BURNAGE Numerical Simulation of Particle Dispersion in a Grid Turbulent Flow: Influence of the Lift Forces E. KIM The Influence of Reynolds Number and Heat Transfer in Fluid Film Lubrication G.P. RAJA SEKHAR and Stokes Flow Past a Porous Sphere with an T. AMARANATH Impermeable Core L. BADEA and M. PREDELEANU On the Dynamic Cavitation Problem in Viscoplastic Solids D. RITTEL and H. MAIGRE A Study of Mixed-Mode Dynamic Crack Initiation in PMMA (Contents Continued) 648 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 N. BANAI, V.P. PANOSKALTSIS, An Analysis of the High Temperature Deformations J.M. SALAZAR and L. BRENIG of Niobium V.I. LEVITAS Theory of Martensitic Phase Transformationisn Elastic Materials in Local Description V.A. BURYACHENKO and Thinly Coated Inclusion with Stress Free Strains in F.G. RAMMERSTORFER an Elastic Medium F.A. ROCHINHA and Numerical Modelling of the Extension-Torsion H.S. COSTA MATTOS Coupling in Cables L.J. CVETICANIN On the Stability of Rheo-Linear Rotor Systems Based on Some New First Integrals B. ZHAO and R.-H. FANG A Study on Principal Strain Direction Measurement in the Uniaxial Tensile Test of Composites N. BONTCHEVA, R. IANKOV and Influence of the Different Behaviour at Tension and M. DATCHEVA Compression on Density Distribution of Porous Metals AD. DROZDOV A Constitutive Model in Thermoviscoelasticity D.S. CHANDRASEKHARAIAH Thermoelastic Plane Waves Without Energy Dissipation F. DELL’ISOLA and G.C. RUTA Perturbation Series for Shear Stress in Flexure of Saint-Venant Cylinders with Bredt-Like Sections Letter to the Editor V.G. HART and J. SHI On Incremental Elastic Moduli in Prestressed Membranes Announcements Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis, University College Dublin, September 3-5, 1997, Dublin, Ireland 1995 CISM Report Vol. 23, No. 6 CONTENTS Scientific and Applied Communications G. CAVIGLIA and A. MORRO Non-Uniqueness of Reflected and Transmitted Waves (Contents Continued) CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 649 K.N. MOUTSOPOULOS, ILE. ELEFTHERIADIS Numerical Simulation of Transport Phenomena by and E.C. AIFANTIS Using the Double Porosity/Diffusivity Continuum Model A. KOUROUKAFOPOULOS, Equilibrium Solute Distribution Near an Interface N.K. HATZITRIFON, T. WEBB Crack Tip and Environment-Assisted Cracking in and E.C. AIFANTIS Bi-Materials C.W. BERT and K. KANG Stress Analysis of Closely-Coiled Helical Springs Using Differential Quadrature A. CAROTTI and E. TURCI A New Servoassisted Hyper-Stiffened Damper for Structural Control: The “IRIS” Project Y. LIANG, X. YANG, C. ZHOU and Z. WANG Application of Neural Networks to Identification of Nonlinear Characteristics in Cushioning Packaging S. DIAO, Q.H. QIN and J. DONG On Branched Interface Cracks Between Two Piezo- electric Materials A-P.S. SELVADURAI On the Problem of an Electrified Disc Located at the Central Opening of a Coplanar Earthed Sheet B.W. GOLLEY Natural Frequencies of Rectangular Plates J.J. BARRAU, J.M. SEGURA Influence des Constraintes Normales Transversales and G. ARMENGAUD dans les Poutres Courbes Sandwich et en I Soumises 4 la Flexion Announcements CISM Programme 1997 II International Aerospace Congress, I[AC’97, August 31-September 5, 1997, Moscow, Russia List of Contents and Author Index, Vol. 23, 1996