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Mechanics of abrasive wear of elastomeric materials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Elastomeric materials are widely used as tire and sealing materials due to their ability to undergo large deformations and conform to the mating surface. However, their applications often result in repeated contact with ...
Roles of grain boundaries in cleavage cracking and thermal crack arrest experiments in iron-silicon alloy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
High-angle grain boundaries in steel offer an important resistance to the propagation of cleavage cracks that affects the fracture toughness and can modulate the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature of fracture downward. ...
Finite element analysis of shells with layers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
It is well established that thin shell structures frequently feature narrow bands of strain concentration and localized displacement irregularities referred to as boundary and internal layers. It is crucial to capture these ...
On the mechanics of non-woven fabrics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959)
Time-frequency variations in cerebellar intention tremor and prediction of drug response limb loading resulted results
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
Photo-electroforming, a new manufacturing process for micro-electro-mechanical systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
A perturbation/correlation approach to force-guided robot control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
Acoustic classification of buried objects with mobile sonar platforms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In this thesis, the use of highly mobile sonar platforms is investigated for the purpose of acoustically classifying compact objects on or below the seabed. The extension of existing strategies, including synthetic aperture ...
Cell-seeded type II collagen scaffolds for articular cartilage tissue engineering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Defects in articular cartilage exhibit little spontaneous healing response, in part due to the limited number of chondrocytes available to infiltrate the defect and the absence of a provisional fibrin scaffold to accommodate ...
Towards optimal mixed finite elements for general shell structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
Optimal finite elements are available for many engineering applications, such as incompressible media, beam and plate bending problems. However, no existing general shell elements have been shown to satisfy the mathematical ...