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Editors-in-Chief
    J. S. Chen
    Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
    University of California, Los Angeles U.S.A.

    C. S. David Chen
    Dept. of Civil Engineering
    National Taiwan University Taiwan

    Y. B. Yang
    Dept. of Civil Engineering
    National Taiwan University Taiwan

Managing Editor
    C. K. Choi
    Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
    Korea Advanced Inst. of Science & Tech., Korea

ISSN: 1976-0426(Print), ISSN: 2092-6200(Online)
Vol. 8(4 issues) for 2015, Quarterly
Free Open Access journal: there is no charge for publishing open access.
Aims and Scopes

The aim of Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics: an International Journal (IMMIJ) is to provide a platform for publication of research results in which interaction and multiscale mechanics plays a vital role. This journal publishes articles with contributions in all aspects of interaction and/or multiscale problems. The problems of interaction mechanics include the interaction of two different subjects/systems, whether they are connected or not, with or without relative motion. The problems of multiscale mechanics include structural, mechanical or material systems with varying length or time scales. As many contemporary and innovative designs encompass interaction phenomena and multiscale features, papers featuring advancement of theories and applications of interaction and/or multiscale mechanics are particularly encouraged for the journal.

  The themes of IMMIJ cover a wide range of subjects associated with interaction and/or multiscale mechanics encountered in engineering and scientific research and practice. Typical subjects considered by the journal include:
Analytical, computational, and experimental multiscale and interaction mechanics
Fluid-structure interactions
Soil-structure interactions
Vehicle-bridge interactions
Floating and ocean structures
Computational materials science and engineering
MEMS and NEMS
Multi-physics and multi-disciplinary problems
Multiscale bio-mechanics
Other related topics
Editorial Board
 
Narayan R. Aluru
Dept. of Mechanical Sci. and Eng.
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Zdenek P. Bazant
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng.
Northwestern Univ., U.S.A.


Ted Belytschko
Dept. of Theoretical & Applied Mech.
Northwestern Univ., U.S.A.


Rene de Borst
Dept. Civil Eng. and Mechanics
University of Glasgow, U.K.


Mark A. Bradford
Sch. of Civil and Environmental Eng.
Univ. of New South Wales, Australia


Achi Brandt
Dept. of Applied Math. & Computer Sci.
The Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Israel


Maenghyo Cho
Sch. of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng.
Seoul National University, Korea


Chang-Koon Choi
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng.
Korea Adv. Inst of Sci. and Tech, Korea


Nasr M. Ghoniem
Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Eng.
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


Somnath Ghosh
Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
Ohio State Univ., Ohio, U.S.A.


Thomas Hou
Dept. of Applied Mathematics
California Inst. of Tech., U.S.A.


Yonggang Huang
Dept. of Mech. and Industrial Eng.
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Jun-Zhi Cui
Inst. of Computational Math. and Sci.
Eng. Computing, Academy of Sci, China


Michael Griebel
Inst. for Numerical Simulation and Applied Math.
Univ. of Bonn, Germany

Thomas J. R. Hughes
Inst. for Computational Eng. & Sci.
Univ. of Texas-Austin, U.S.A.


Sergio R. Idelsohn
Asociacion Argentina de Mecanica
Computacional, Argentina


Bassam A Izzuddin
Dept. of Civil and Envo. Eng.
Imperial College, U.K.


Liang-Jenq Leu
Dept. of Civil Eng.
National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan


Kim Meow Liew
Dept. of Building and Construction
City Univ. of Hong Kong


Cheng-Tang Wu
Livermore Software Tech Corp.
USA


Tongxi Yu
Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.


Mingwu Yuan
Dept. of Mechanics & Eng. Sci.
Peking Univ, China


Wanxie Zhong
Research Inst. of Eng. Mechanics
Dalian Univ. of Tech, China


Antonio Huerta
Dept. of Applied Mathematics
Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya


Dongdong Wang
Department of Civil Engineering
Xiamen University, China


Anthony R. Ingraffea
School of Civil and Envo. Eng.
Cornell Univ., U.S.A.


Wing Kam Liu
Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
Northwestern Univ, U.S.A.


Genki Yagawa
Dept. of Quantum Eng. and System Sci.
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Izuru Takewaki
Dept. of Urban and Envo. Eng.
Kyoto Univ., Japan


Chien-Ching Ma
Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
National Taiwan Univ, Taiwan


Herbert Mang
Inst. for Mech. of Materials & Structures
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria


Yi-Lung Mo
Dept. of Civil and Envo. Eng.
Univ. of Houston, U.S.A.


Subrata Mukherjee
Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mech.
Cornell Univ, U.S.A.


J. Tinsley Oden
Dept. of Aerospace Eng. and Mechanics
Univ. of Texas-Austin, U.S.A.


Eugenio Onate
IntĄŻl Ctr. for Numerical Methods in Eng.
Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain


Stanley Osher
Dept. of Mathematics
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.


Glaucio H. Paulino
Dept. of Civil and Envo. Eng.
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


J. N. Reddy
Dept. of Mechanical Eng.
Texas A&M Univ, U.S.A.


Fernando A. Rochinha
Mechanical Eng. Department
Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


Bernhard A. Schrefler
Dipartimento Di Costruzioni e Trasporti
Universita degli Studi di Padova, Italy


Eric Savin
Strl. Dynamics & Coupled Systems Dept.
Office Nat'l dĄŻEtudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales, France





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Sample issue
Volume 5, Number 1, March 2012

Abstract
Considerable longitudinal rail forces and displacements may develop in continuous welded rail (CWR) track on long-span bridges due to temperature variations. The track stability may be disturbed due to excessive relative displacements between the sleepers and ballast bed and the accompanied reduction in frictional resistance. For high-speed tracks, however, solving these problems by installing rail expansion devices in the track is not an attractive solution as these devices may cause a local disturbance of the vertical track stiffness and track geometry which will require intensive maintenance. With reference to temperature, two actions are considered by the bridge loading standards, the uniform variation in the rail and deck temperature and the temperature gradient in deck. Generally, the effect of temperature gradient has been disregarded in the interaction analysis. This paper mainly deals with the effect of temperature gradient on the track-bridge interaction with respect to the support reaction, rail stresses and stability. The study presented in this paper was not mentioned in the related codes so far.

Key Words
Temperature gradient; track-bridge interaction; continuous welded rail; buckling factor; numerical modeling.

Address
Rakesh Kumar and Akhil Upadhyay: Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee-247667, India

  • Wave propagation in a generalized thermo elastic plate embedded in elastic medium
    P. Ponnusamy and R. Selvamani
    Abstract; Full Text (852K)

Abstract
In this paper, the wave propagation in a generalized thermo elastic plate embedded in an elastic medium (Winkler model) is studied based on the Lord-Schulman (LS) and Green-Lindsay (GL) generalized two dimensional theory of thermo elasticity. Two displacement potential functions are introduced to uncouple the equations of motion. The frequency equations that include the interaction between the plate and foundation are obtained by the traction free boundary conditions using the Bessel function solutions. The numerical calculations are carried out for the material Zinc and the computed nondimensional frequency and attenuation coefficient are plotted as the dispersion curves for the plate with thermally insulated and isothermal boundaries. The wave characteristics are found to be more stable and realistic in the presence of thermal relaxation times and the foundation parameter. A comparison of the results for the case with no thermal effects shows well agreement with those by the membrane theory.

Key Words
wave propagation; vibration of thermal plate; plate immersed in fluid; generalized thermo elastic plate; Winkler foundation.

Address
P. Ponnusamy: Department of Mathematics, Government Arts College (Autonomous), Coimbatore, TamilNadu, India. R. Selvamani: Department of Mathematics, Karunya University, Coimbatore, TamilNadu, India.

  • Multiscale method and pseudospectral simulations for linear viscoelastic incompressible flows
    Ling Zhang and Jie Ouyang
    Abstract; Full Text (4391K)

Abstract
The two-dimensional incompressible flow of a linear viscoelastic fluid we considered in this research has rapidly oscillating initial conditions which contain both the large scale and small scale information. In order to grasp this double-scale phenomenon of the complex flow, a multiscale analysis method is developed based on the mathematical homogenization theory. For the incompressible flow of a linear viscoelastic Maxwell fluid, a well-posed multiscale system, including averaged equations and cell problems, is derived by employing the appropriate multiple scale asymptotic expansions to approximate the velocity, pressure and stress fields. And then, this multiscale system is solved numerically using the pseudospectral algorithm based on a time-splitting semi-implicit influence matrix method. The comparisons between the multiscale solutions and the direct numerical simulations demonstrate that the multiscale model not only captures large scale features accurately, but also reflects kinetic interactions between the large and small scale of the incompressible flow of a linear viscoelastic fluid.

Key Words
linear viscoelastic fluid; incompressible flow; multiscale analysis; averaged equations; cell problems; pseudospectral algorithm.

Address
Ling Zhang and Jie Ouyang: Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi

  • Deterioration of tensile behavior of concrete exposed to artificial acid rain environment
    Y.F. Fan, Z.Q. Hu and H.Y. Luan
    Abstract; Full Text (13789K)

Abstract
This study is focused on evaluation of the tensile properties of concrete exposed to acid rain environment. Acid rain environment was simulated by the mixture of sulfate and nitric acid in the laboratory. The dumbell-shaped concrete specimens were submerged in pure water and acid solution for accelerated conditioning. Weighing, tensile test, CT, SEM/EDS test and microanalysis were performed on the specimens. Tensile characteristics of the damaged concrete are obtained quantitatively. Evolution characteristics of the voids, micro cracks, chemical compounds, elemental distribution and contents in the concrete are examined. The deterioration mechanisms of concrete exposed to acid rain are well elucidated.

Key Words
concrete; multiscale; SEM; atmospheric corrosion.

Address
Y.F. Fan and H.Y. Luan: Institute of Road and Bridge Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China Z.Q. Hu: Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  • Non-linear analysis of pile groups subjected to lateral loads using
    H.S. Chore, R.K. Ingle and V.A. Sawant
    Abstract; Full Text (1717K)

Abstract
The paper presents the analysis of two groups of piles subjected to lateral loads incorporating the non-linear behaviour of soil. The finite element method is adopted for carrying out the parametric study of the pile groups. The pile is idealized as a one dimensional beam element, the pile cap as two dimensional plate elements and the soil as non-linear elastic springs using the p-y curves developed by Georgiadis et al. (1992). Two groups of piles, embedded in a cohesive soil, involving two and three piles in series and parallel arrangement thereof are considered. The response of the pile groups is found to be significantly affected by the parameters such as the spacing between the piles, the number of piles in a group and the orientation of the lateral load. The non-linear response of the system is, further, compared with the one by Chore et al. (2012) obtained by the analysis of a system to the present one, except that the soil is assumed to be linear elastic. From the comparison, it is observed that the non-linearity of soil is found to increase the top displacement of the pile group in the range of 66.4%-145.6%, while decreasing the fixed moments in the range of 2% to 20% and the positive moments in the range of 54% to 57%.

Key Words
laterally loaded piles; winkler

Address
H.S. Chore: Department of Civil Engineering, Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Sector-3, Airoli, Navi Mumbai- 400 708, India R.K. Ingle: Department of Applied Mechanics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur- 440 010, India V.A. Sawant: Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee–247 667, India

  • Coupled foot-shoe-ground interaction model to assess landing impact transfer characteristics to ground condition
    S.H. Kim, J.R. Cho, J.H. Choi, S.H. Ryu and W.B. Jeong
    Abstract; Full Text (4955K)

Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of sports ground materials on the transfer characteristics of the landing impact force using a coupled foot-shoe-ground interaction model. The impact force resulting from the collision between the sports shoe and the ground is partially dissipated, but the remaining portion transfers to the human body via the lower extremity. However, since the landing impact force is strongly influenced by the sports ground material we consider four different sports grounds, asphalt, urethane, clay and wood. We use a fully coupled 3-D foot-shoe-ground interaction model and we construct the multi-layered composite ground models. Through the numerical simulation, the landing impact characteristics such as the ground reaction force (GRF), the acceleration transfer and the frequency response characteristics are investigated for four different sports grounds. It was found that the risk of injury, associated with the landing impact, was reduced as the ground material changes from asphalt to wood, from the fact that both the peak vertical acceleration and the central frequency monotonically decrease from asphalt to wood. As well, it was found that most of the impact acceleration and frequency was dissipated at the heel, then not much changed from the ankle to the knee.

Key Words
coupled foot-shoe-ground interaction model; landing impact force; ground condition; ground reaction force; acceleration transfer; frequency response.

Address
S.H. Kim, J.H. Choi, S.H. Ryu and W.B. Jeong: School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea J.R. Cho: School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea; Research & Development Institute of Midas IT., Gyeonggi 463-400, Korea

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