Progress in Applied Mechanics

Continuum mechanics.- Variational principles for the linear dynamic theory of micropolar viscoelasticity.- An extended version of the transfer theorem.- General mechanics.- On the application of the screw calculus to the mechanics of spatial mechanisms.- Main properties of root-loci of time-delay control systems and a method of finding the stable interval of gain.- Fluid mechanics.- Concerning the singularity of non-linear vibration of ideal liquid in communication tubes with different end cross sections.- Magnetohydrodynamic flow in elliptic ducts.- Flow around a cone at supersonic speed.- Elasticity and plasticity.- A note on biharmonic functions.- The effect of transverse shear deformations on ring-shaped elastic plates.- Generalized variational principles.- Sub-region generalized variational principles in elastic thin plates.- General variational principles for non-conservative problems in theory of elasticity and its application to finite element analysis.- Theory of plates and shells.- Solution in cosine series for the bending of a rectangular cantilever plate under the action of arbitrary transverse loads.- The effect of axisymmetric geometric imperfections on dynamic response to turbulent wind in a cooling tower.- General solution of the bending of ring shells with equations in complex form.- Composite materials.- An analytical solution for interlaminar stresses in symmetric composite laminates.- Finite deformation of plates and shells.- Geometric theory of finite deformation of shells.- Perturbation solutions for uniformly clamped rectangular plates with large deflections.- The large deflection method in the analysis of elastoplastic instability of thin shells with initial imperfections.- Composite expansion method applied to large deflection problems of spherical shells.- Nonlinear bending of circular sandwich plates under the action of axisymmetric uniformly distributed line loads.- Fracture mechanics.- The physical mechanism of acoustic emission and the difficulty of fracture mechanics.- An elastic-plastic analytical analysis near a crack tip.- On path-independent integrals in fracture dynamics for visco-elastic plastic media.- A fundamental solution for flexural problems of a circular cylinder with cracks.- Computational mechanics.- The whiplash effects on tall buildings.- Solutions of geometrical non-linear problems of stiffened plates and shells by the finite element method.- Author Index.