Mechanics of Biological Systems & Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 4

Chapter 1. Investigation of Deformation Mechanisms in Columnar Aluminum.- Chapter 2. Dynamic Shear Response of Soft Tissue Materials.- Chapter 3. Tensile Response of Ceramics at the Microscale.- Chapter 4. Development of Femtosecond Laser Based Microscale Fracture Methods.- Chapter 5. Programming Vanadium Dioxide based MEMS Mirror.- Chapter 6. Modelling & Simulation of Post Processed Foundry Fabricated Large, Out-of-Plane MEMS Energy Harvester.- Chapter 7. Measurement of the Visco-Elastic Properties of the Chinchilla Tympanic Membrane.- Chapter 8. Realization and Dynamic Studies of CNTs-PDMS Membranes for Biomimetic Flapping Wing Applications.- Chapter 9. Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Robustification of Acoustic Emission Inspection with Recurrent Neural Networks.- Chapter 10. Modeling of Atomic Force Microscope Contact Experiments on Escherichia Coli Bacteria Cellular Systems.- Chapter 11. Selection of Shear Sample Test Geometry for Bulk Adhesive Characterization.- Chapter 12. A Design of Experiments Approach for Determining Sensitivities of Forming Limit Analyses to Experimental Parameters.- Chapter 13. Post Processed Foundry MEMS Actuators for Large Deflection Optical Scanning.- Chapter 14. Torsional Structures to Enable Large Angle Deflections.- Chapter 15. Mode I Delamination Behaviour of Fused Deposition Modelling Parts.- Chapter 16. Experimental Study of the Mechanics of Blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury.- Chapter 17. A MEMS-scale Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvester Based on Coupled Component Structures and Bi-stable States.- Chapter 18. Development of Biofilm-Surface Adhesion Technique via Laser-induced Stress Waves.- Chapter 19. Influence of Adhesion on the Mechanical Response of Granular Composites.- Chapter 20. High Rate Fracture of Human Skull.- Chapter 21. Assessment of Fluid Cavitation Threshold Using a Polymeric Split Hopkinson Bar-Confinement Chamber Apparatus.- Chapter 22. Contact Reliability of Pt- and TiN-coated Microswitches