Editor's Choice Collection

Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Editor’s Choice Collection

For each issue of the journal, the Chief Editor may select a paper to be featured on the journal homepage in the ASCE Library. The paper is available for free to registered users for 1 to 4 months, depending on how frequently the journal is published. Below is a list of Editor’s Choice selections.

Volume 150

Issue 1 - January 2024
Effect of Seepage Differential Pressure on Permeability Evolution of Tunnel Lining Fracture under Hydraulic–Mechanical Coupling Process
ORCID ID iconMengmeng Tao; Yuan Wang; Jitao Lai; Di Feng; Yu Jiao; Zhikui Wang, Ph.D.; and Jie Ren
Published online: October 27, 2023

Volume 149

Issue 9 - September 2023
A Probabilistic Crowd–AI Framework for Reducing Uncertainty in Postdisaster Building Damage Assessment
ORCID ID iconChih-Shen Cheng, M.ASCE; Asim B. Khajwal, S.M.ASCE; Amir H. Behzadan, M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconArash Noshadravan, M.ASCE
Published online: June 24, 2023

Issue 8 - August 2023
Proposal of m-Index for Rating Fracture and Damage Models by Their Ability to Represent a Set of Distinctive Experiments
Zdeněk P. Bažant, Dist.M.ASCE; and Hoang Thai Nguyen
Published online: May 23, 2023

Issue 7 - July 2023
A 3D Coupled Finite-Element Model for Simulating Mechanical Regain in Self-Healing Cementitious Materials
ORCID ID iconBrubeck Lee Freeman; and Anthony Jefferson
Published online: April 24, 2023

Issue 2 - February 2023
DeepFEM: A Novel Element-Based Deep Learning Approach for Solving Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Computational Solid Mechanics
ORCID ID iconYijia Dong; Tao Liu; Zhimin Li; and ORCID ID iconPizhong Qiao, P.E., F.ASCE
Published online: November 17, 2022

Issue 1 - January 2023
Effect of Hydrate Failure in ITZs on the Initiation of Prepeak Nonlinearities of Concrete under Multiaxial Compression
ORCID ID iconMichael Schwaighofer; ORCID ID iconMarkus Königsberger; and ORCID ID iconBernhard L. A. Pichler, Aff.M.ASCE
Published online: November 12, 2022

Volume 148

Issue 12 - December 2022
Structures That Can Be Made with Carbon Nanotube Fibers but Not with Other Materials
Reginald Desroches, F.ASCE; Giovanni Migliaccio; and ORCID ID iconGianni Royer-Carfagni
Published online: October 10, 2022

Issue 11 - November 2022
A Perspective on Darcy’s Law across the Scales: From Physical Foundations to Particulate Mechanics
ORCID ID iconCatherine O’Sullivan; ORCID ID iconChloé Arson, M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconBenoît Coasne
Published online: August 30, 2022

Issue 10 - October 2022
Influence of the Perturbation Amplitude and the Froude Number on the Establishment Length of Roll Waves
Valdirene da Rosa Rocho; ORCID ID iconGuilherme Henrique Fiorot; and ORCID ID iconSergio Viçosa Möller
Published online: July 27, 2022

Issue 9 - September 2022
Permeability of Microcracked Porous Solids: Modeling from Homogenization to Percolation
ORCID ID iconLe Li; and Kefei Li
Published online: June 21, 2022

Issue 8 - August 2022
Analytical Theory for 3D Consolidation of Layered Viscoelastic Soils Based on Displacement Function Method
ORCID ID iconLujun Wang; Bingfa Yan; and ORCID ID iconXiaotian Liu
Published online: May 20, 2022

Issue 7 - July 2022
Noncircular Cavity Expansion in Undrained Soil: Semi-Analytical Solution
Hang Zhou; Brian Sheil, Ph.D.; and Hanlong Liu
Published online: May 02, 2022

Issue 5 - May 2022
A Simplified Continuum Particle Model Bridging Interatomic Potentials and Elasticity of Solids
ORCID ID iconHuiming Yin
Published online: February 25, 2022

Issue 4 - April 2022
Physics-Informed Multifidelity Residual Neural Networks for Hydromechanical Modeling of Granular Soils and Foundation Considering Internal Erosion
Pin Zhang; Zhen-Yu Yin, Ph.D.; Yin-Fu Jin, Ph.D. ORCID ID iconJie Yang, Ph.D.; and Brian Sheil, Ph.D.
Published online: February 10, 2022

Issue 3 - March 2022
A Temporal Multiscale Model for Fatigue Damage of Concrete
Xiaodan Ren, Ph.D., Aff.M.ASCE; Xiaoli Wei; and ORCID ID iconRoberto Ballarini, Ph.D., P.E., Dist.M.ASCE
Published online: December 24, 2021

Issue 2 - February 2022
Discrete Fresh Concrete Model for Simulation of Ordinary, Self-Consolidating, and Printable Concrete Flow
Elham Ramyar, S.M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconGianluca Cusatis, M.ASCE
Published online: November 24, 2021

Issue 1 - January 2022
Modeling Combined Fabric Evolution in an Anisometric Granular Material Driven by Particle-Scale X-Ray Measurements
ORCID ID icon Rui Wang, M.ASCE; Gustavo Pinzón; ORCID ID icon Edward Andò; and Gioacchino Viggiani
Published online: October 18, 2021

Volume 147

Issue 12 – December 2021
Thermodynamic Constitutive Model for Sands with Consideration of Distributed Fabric
Zhichao Zhang, Ph.D.; and Kenichi Soga, Ph.D., F.ASCE Published online: October 04, 2021

Issue 11 – November 2021
Origami Metamaterials with Near-Constant Poisson Functions over Finite Strains
Siva Poornan Vasudevan, S.M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconPhanisri Pradeep Pratapa, Ph.D.
Published online: August 28, 2021

Issue 10 – October 2021
Scaling Laws for Rigid-Body Response of Masonry Structures under Blast Loads
ORCID ID icon Filippo Masi, Ph.D.; Ioannis Stefanou; and Victor Maffi-Berthier
Published online: August 10, 2021

Issue 7 – July 2021
Cyclic Metal Plasticity Model Parameters with Limited Information: Constrained Optimization Approach
Albano de Castro e Sousa, Ph.D.; ORCID ID icon Alexander R. Hartloper, S.M.ASCE; and ORCID ID icon Dimitrios G. Lignos, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Published online: April 28, 2021

Issue 6 – June 2021
Simulation of High-Strain-Rate Comminution through a Breakage Model with Adaptive Rate Dependence
Ritaja Ray, S.M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconGiuseppe Buscarnera, M.ASCE
Published online: March 25, 2021

Issue 5 – May 2021
Deterministic and Random Vibration of Linear Systems with Singular Parameter Matrices and Fractional Derivative Terms
A. Pirrotta, A.M.ASCE; I. A. Kougioumtzoglou, M.ASCE; A. Di Matteo, M.ASCE; V. C. Fragkoulis Published online: March 27, 2021

Issue 4 – April 2021
Dynamic Mode Decomposition of Random Pressure Fields over Bluff Bodies
ORCID ID iconXihaier Luo, M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconAhsan Kareem, Dist.M.ASCE
Published online: January 20, 2021

Issue 3 – March 2021
Force Estimation and Event Localization (FEEL) of Impacts Using Structural Vibrations
Benjamin T. Davis, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE; Juan M. Caicedo, D.Sc., A.M.ASCE; and Victor A. Hirth
Published online: December 29, 2020

Issue 1 – January 2021
State-of-the-Art Review on the Progressive Failure Characteristics of Geomaterials in Peridynamic Theory
Xiao-Ping Zhou and ORCID ID iconYun-Teng Wang
Published online: October 31, 2020

Volume 146

Issue 11 – November 2020
Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Isolation Devices in a Hybrid Base-Isolation Layer of a Full-Scale Building
ORCID ID iconPatrick T. Brewick; Erik A. Johnson, M.ASCE; Eiji Sato; and Tomohiro Sasaki
Published online: September 02, 2020

Issue 10 – October 2020
Numerical Modeling of Delayed Progressive Collapse of Reinforced Concrete Structures
Lívia Mello, S.M.ASCE; Jia-Liang Le, M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconRoberto Ballarini, F.ASCE
Published online: July 23, 2020

Issue 7 – July 2020
Structural Optimization of Laminated Annealed Glass
Antonio Bonati; Gabriele Pisano; and ORCID ID iconGianni Royer-Carfagni
Published online: February 22, 2020

Issue 5 – May 2020
Microstructural Origins of Wave Modulus of Elasticity of Concrete
ORCID ID iconDongxu Liu; Pizhong Qiao, F.ASCE; Zhidong Zhou; and ORCID ID iconL. Z. Sun, M.ASCE
Published online: February 22, 2020

Issue 4 – April 2020
A Naturally Stabilized Semi-Lagrangian Meshfree Formulation for Multiphase Porous Media with Application to Landslide Modeling
ORCID ID iconHaoyan Wei; ORCID ID iconJiun-Shyan Chen, M.ASCE; Frank Beckwith; and Jonghyuk Baek
Published online: January 29, 2020

Issue 2 – February 2020
Influence of Clay Anisotropy on Model Simulations of Wetting Collapse
Yanni Chen; ORCID ID iconFerdinando Marinelli, Ph.D.; and ORCID ID iconGiuseppe Buscarnera, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Published online: December 08, 2019

Issue 1 – January 2020
Analytical and Numerical Shape Optimization of a Class of Structures under Mass Constraints and Self-Weight
Bingbing San; Haim Waisman; and Isaac Harari
Published online: October 24, 2019

Volume 145

Issue 12 – December 2019
Group Velocity–Driven Inverse Metamaterial Design
ORCID ID iconHeedong Goh, S.M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconLoukas F. Kallivokas, M.ASCE
Published online: September 19, 2019

Issue 9 – September 2020
Real-Time Aerodynamics Hybrid Simulation: A Novel Wind-Tunnel Model for Flexible Bridges
ORCID ID iconTeng Wu; Shaopeng Li; and Mettupalayam Sivaselvan, A.M.ASCE
Published online: June 20, 2019

Issue 8 – August 2019
Hysteretic Model of Single-Bolted Angle Connections for Lattice Steel Towers
Liyang Ma, S.M.ASCE; and ORCID ID iconPaolo Bocchini, M.ASCE
Published online: May 17, 2019

Issue 6 – June 2019
Analytical and Numerical Investigation of Quasi-Zero Stiffness Vertical Isolation System
Ying Zhou, M.ASCE; Peng Chen; and Gilberto Mosqueda, A.M.ASCE
Published online: March 25, 2019

Issue 5 – May 2019
Moisture Diffusion in Unsaturated Self-Desiccating Concrete with Humidity-Dependent Permeability and Nonlinear Sorption Isotherm
Saeed Rahimi-Aghdam; Mohammad Rasoolinejad; and Zdeněk P. Bažant, Hon.M.ASCE
Published online: March 06, 2019

Issue 3 – March 2019
Bounding Surface Elasto-Viscoplasticity: A General Constitutive Framework for Rate-Dependent Geomaterials
ORCID ID iconZhenhao Shi, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; James P. Hambleton, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE; and Giuseppe Buscarnera, Ph.D., M.ASCE
Published online: January 03, 2019

Issue 2 – February 2019
Extended Microprestress-Solidification Theory for Long-Term Creep with Diffusion Size Effect in Concrete at Variable Environment
Saeed Rahimi-Aghdam; Zdeněk P. Bažant, Hon.M.ASCE; and Gianluca Cusatis, M.ASCE
Published online: November 27, 2018