INTRODUCTION In the past decade, the field of single-molecule mechanics has grown rapidly, and through the use of techniques such as atomic-force microscopy (AFM) and optical tweezers, much has been learned about the molecular mechanisms responsible for mechanical response [1]. In spite of this, there have been few studies relating mechanical response across a range of hierarchies, in order to ...

contact mechanics is related to the deformation study of solids that meet each other at one or more points. the physical and mathematical formulation of the problem is established upon the mechanics of materials and continuum mechanics and focuses on computations involving bodies with different characteristics in static or dynamic contact. contact mechanics gives essential information for the s...

the aim of the present paper is to sbo» that anti-realism in science, 1vhich has a1;guab/y become more fashionable in recentyears, contrary to tuha: its proponents assert, cannot make use of quantum mechanics and its impressiue achievements as a frump card in justifying its claims. i will argue that scientific anti-realism far from providing scientific communiry with a progressive methodologica...

In this paper, beam finite elements based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) are presented, in which the orientation of the cross section is parameterized by means of slope vectors only. Resulting, no singularities due to an angle parameter occur and the mass matrix is advantageously constant. A continuum mechanics as well as a structural mechanics based formulation for the ela...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.09.001 0263-8223/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding authors at: Institute of Structural Mechanics, Bauhaus Universität, Marienstr 15, D-99423 Weimar, Germany (B. Arash). Division of Computational Mechanics, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (T. Rabczuk). E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B. Arash), ...