The Halpin-Tsai equations are based upon the “selfconsistent micromechanics method” developed by Hill. Hermans eniplovetf this model to obtain a solution in terms of Hill’s “reduced moduli”. Halpin and ’Tsai have reduced Hernians’ solution to a simpler analytical form arid extended its use for a variety of filament geometries. The development of these niicromechanics relationships, which form t...

The development of computing of structural mechanics of fibres and textiles is linked to the advances in computer hardware and software. The examples cover wool and other fibres, continuous filament and other yarns, micromechanics of woven and other fabrics, and drape of fabrics. The tasks for the 21 century is to develop easy-to-use programs, which will generate a creative interchange between ...

The cement-bone interface plays an important role in load transfer between cemented implant systems and adjacent bone, but little is known about the micromechanical behavior of this interface following in vivo service. Small samples of postmortem-retrieved cement-bone specimens from cemented total hip replacements were prepared and mechanically loaded to determine the response to tensile and co...

The enzymes that transcribe, recombine, package, and duplicate the eukaryotic genome all are highly processive and capable of generating large forces. Understanding chromosome function therefore will require analysis of mechanics as well as biochemistry. Here we review development of new biophysical–biochemical techniques for studying the mechanical properties of isolated chromatin fibers and c...

Despite the widespread use of cement as a means of fixation of implants to bone, surprisingly little is known about the micromechanical behavior in terms of the local interfacial motion. In this work, we utilized digital image correlation techniques to quantify the micromechanics of the cement-bone interface of laboratory-prepared cemented total hip replacements subjected to nondestructive, qua...

In this work, we have developed a facile, economical microfluidic approach as well as a simple model description to measure and predict the mechanical properties of composite core-shell microparticles made from materials with dramatically different elastic properties. By forcing the particles through a tapered capillary and analyzing their deformation, the shear and compressive moduli can be me...

An overview of theoretical and computational methods in the rapidly advancing field of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics of materials is given. This overview emphasizes the Multiscale Modelling of Materials (MMM) approach, which relies on a reduction of the degrees of freedom at natural length scales. Two main challenges are identified in the MMM approach: (i) the computational complexity of ful...

Acoustic stimulation gates mechanically sensitive ion channels in cochlear sensory hair cells. Even in the absence of sound, a fraction of these channels remains open, forming a conductance between hair cells and the adjacent fluid space, scala media. Restoring the lost endogenous polarization of scala media in an in vitro preparation of the whole cochlea depolarizes the hair cell soma. Using b...