The engineering tension test is widely used to provide basic design information on the strength of materials and as an acceptance test for the specification of materials. In the tension test a specimen is subjected to a continually increasing uniaxial tensile force while simultaneous observations are made of the elongation of the specimen. The parameters, which are used to describe the stress-s...

Fabrice Alizon Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA Kiran Khadke Department of Mechanical Engineering Engineering Mechanics Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA Henri J. Thevenot The Harold & Inge Marcus Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA John ...

Suitable alternatives are made for damaged or diseased organs and tissues in tissue engineering by combining cellular and molecular biology with materials and mechanical engineering. Fibrin is a critical blood component responsible for homeostasis, used extensively as a biopolymer scaffold in tissue engineering. This study summarizes the latest developments in organ and tissue regeneration usin...

Mechanical ventilator failures expose patients to unacceptable risks, and maintaining mechanical ventilator safety is an important issue. We examined the usefulness of maintaining mechanical ventilators by clinical engineers (CEs) using a specialized calibrator. These evaluations and the ability to make in-house repairs proved useful for obviating the need to rent ventilators which, in turn, mi...

Virtual engineering technology has undergone rapid progress in recent years and is being adopted increasingly by manufacturing companies of many engineering disciplines. There is an increasing demand from industry for qualified virtual engineers. The qualified virtual engineers should have the ability of applying engineering principles and mechanical design methods within the commercial softwar...

Objective(s): One of the main constraints of collagen hydrogel scaffolds for using in tissue engineering is mechanical weakness. Plastic compression (PC) is a physical method to overcome the mechanical limitation of collagen hydrogel. Materials and Methods: In this study, the effects of pH on mechanical and biological properties of PC hydrogels were investigated. Collagen hydrogels were fabrica...

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Robot workspace estimation and base placement optimisation techniques for the conversion of conventional work cells into autonomous flexible manufacturing systems M. F. Alya; A. T. Abbasb; S. M. Megahedc a Mechanical Engineering Department, The American University in Cairo, New Cairo, Egypt b Mechanical Engineering Department, Engineering College, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia c Me...

55 Multi-Objective Optimization of Squeeze Casting Process using Evolutionary Algorithms Manjunath Patel G C, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India Prasad Krishna, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India Mahesh B. Parappagoudar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chhatrapat...

in Spark Ignition Engines by Michael G. Norris B. S., Mechanical Engineering Oregon State University, 1985 S.M., Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991 Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; September 1995 © 1995 Massachusett...