1. Enhanced magnetoelectric effect in multiferroic composite beams due to flexoelectricity and transverse deformations

   • M. C. Ray

   OriginalPaper 14 July 2017 Pages: 461 - 472

   

2. Vibration characteristics of moving sigmoid functionally graded plates containing porosities

   • Yan Qing Wang
   • Jean W. Zu

   OriginalPaper 16 August 2017 Pages: 473 - 489

   

3. Phase field simulations of coupled microstructure solidification problems via the strong form particle difference method

   • Jeong-Hoon Song
   • Yao Fu
   • Timon Rabczuk

   OriginalPaper 08 September 2017 Pages: 491 - 509

   

4. A material point method model and ballistic limit equation for hyper velocity impact of multi-layer fabric coated aluminum plate

   • Zhiping Ye
   • Xiong Zhang
   • Guanghui Jia

   OriginalPaper 12 September 2017 Pages: 511 - 526

   

5. Optimization of material composition to minimize the thermal stresses induced in FGM plates with temperature-dependent material properties

   • Shuang Ding
   • Chih-Ping Wu

   OriginalPaper 07 October 2017 Pages: 527 - 549

   

6. Hybrid molecular dynamics–finite element simulations of the elastic behavior of polycrystalline graphene

   • A. R. Alian
   • S. A. Meguid

   OriginalPaper 01 November 2017 Pages: 551 - 563

   

7. Asymmetric buckling of shell-stiffened annular plates

   • Daniel Burmeister

   OriginalPaper 14 November 2017 Pages: 565 - 575

   

8. Effects of natural aging and heat treatments conditions on mechanical properties of dissimilar composite between 6061 Al alloy and Al-Si12CuNi (AC8A) Al cast alloy fabricated by friction welding

   • M. Kimura
   • H. Sakaguchi
   • T. Takahashi

   OriginalPaper 08 November 2017 Pages: 577 - 589

   

9. Damage effects of adhesives in modern glass façades: a micro-mechanically motivated volumetric damage model for poro-hyperelastic materials

   • Michael Drass
   • Jens Schneider
   • Stefan Kolling

   OriginalPaper 13 November 2017 Pages: 591 - 616

   

10. Multicriteria materials selection for extreme operating conditions based on a multiobjective analysis of irradiation embrittlement and hot cracking prediction models

    • A. Rodríguez-Prieto
    • A. M. Camacho
    • M. A. Sebastián

    OriginalPaper 11 November 2017 Pages: 617 - 634

    

11. Contact mechanics and friction in PTFE coaxial sealing systems

    • Tudor Deaconescu
    • Andrea Deaconescu
    • Flavius Sârbu

    OriginalPaper 16 November 2017 Pages: 635 - 646

    

12. Evaluation of piezoelectric energy harvester under dynamic bending by means of hybrid mathematical/isogeometric analysis

    • Mahesa Akbar
    • Jose Luis Curiel-Sosa

    OriginalPaper Open access 15 November 2017 Pages: 647 - 667

    

13. A 2D topology optimisation algorithm in NURBS framework with geometric constraints

    • Giulio Costa
    • Marco Montemurro
    • Jérôme Pailhès

    OriginalPaper 27 November 2017 Pages: 669 - 696

    

14. Scavenging phenomenon and improved electrical and mechanical properties of polyaniline–divinylbenzene composite in presence of MWCNT

    • Vipin Kumar
    • Tomohiro Yokozeki
    • Bhanu P. Singh

    OriginalPaper 18 November 2017 Pages: 697 - 708

    

15. Nonlinear transient dynamic response of a blade subject to a pulsating load in a decaying centrifugal force field

    • P. A. Roy
    • S. A. Meguid

    OriginalPaper 04 December 2017 Pages: 709 - 728