Mechanics of Biological Systems & Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics ... Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)

__Mechanics of Biological Systems &__ __Micro-and Nanomechanics____, Volume 4 of the__ __Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics__, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to important areas of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of topics, including: Cell Mechanics & Traumatic Brain Injury Micromechanical Testing Adhesion and FractureMEMS Devices and Technology Nano-scale Deformation Mechanisms 1D & 2D Materials Tribology & Wear Research and Applications in Progress Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Investigation of Deformation Mechanisms in High Purity Columnar Aluminum (Marissa Linne, Ajey Venkataraman, Michael Sangid, Samantha Daly)....Pages 1-3 Dynamic Shear Response of Soft Tissue Materials (W. E. Liang, S. Y. Lin, L. Tsai)....Pages 5-11 Tensile Response of Ceramics at the Microscale (Daniel J. Magagnosc, Brian E. Schuster)....Pages 13-14 Development of Femtosecond Laser Based Microscale Fracture Methods (Daniel J. Magagnosc, Brian E. Schuster)....Pages 15-16 Programming Vanadium Dioxide Based MEMS Mirror (D. Torres, Sarah Dooley, La Vern Starman, Nelson Sepúlveda)....Pages 17-19 Modeling and Simulation of Post Processed Foundry Fabricated Large, Out-of-Plane MEMS Energy Harvester (J. P. Walton, La Vern Starman, D. Torres)....Pages 21-23 Measurement of the Viscoelastic Properties of the Chinchilla Tympanic Membrane (Junfeng Liang, Rong Z. Gan, Hongbing Lu)....Pages 25-34 Realization and Dynamic Studies of CNTs-PDMS Membranes for Biomimetic Flapping Wing Applications (David Kumar, G. M. Kamath, P. M. Mohite, Sudhir Kamle)....Pages 35-37 Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Robustification of Acoustic Emission Inspection with Recurrent Neural Networks (Christopher Hsu, Mulugeta Haile, Natasha Bradley, John Chen)....Pages 39-44 Modeling of Atomic Force Microscope Contact Experiments on Escherichia coli Bacteria Cellular Systems (Daniel Biggs, Hanwei Liu, David Tirrell, Guruswami Ravichandran)....Pages 45-46 Identification of Shear Sample Test Geometry for Bulk Adhesive Characterization (Brock Watson, Michael J. Worswick, Duane S. Cronin)....Pages 47-50 A Design of Experiments Approach for Determining Sensitivities of Forming Limit Analyses to Experimental Parameters (Mark A. Iadicola, Dilip K. Banerjee)....Pages 51-54 Post Processed Foundry MEMS Actuators for Large Deflection Optical Scanning (La Vern Starman, D. Torres, H. J. Hall, J. P. Walton, R. A. Lake)....Pages 55-58 Torsional Structures to Enable Large Angle Deflections (La Vern Starman, D. Torres, J. P. Walton)....Pages 59-62 Acoustic Emission Analysis on Mode I Delamination Tests of Fused Deposition Modelling Parts (C. Barile, C. Casavola, A. Cazzato)....Pages 63-70 Experimental Study of the Mechanics of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury (Joseph Kerwin, Suhas Vidhate, Faezeh Masoomi, Michaelann Tartis, Adam M. Willis, Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez)....Pages 71-74 Study on the Fabrication Process of a MEMS Bistable Energy Harvester Based on Coupled Component Structures (Masoud Derakhshani, Brian E. Allgeier, Thomas A. Berfield)....Pages 75-79 Development of Biofilm-Surface Adhesion Technique via Laser-Induced Stress Waves (James D. Boyd, Stuart C. Ross, Martha E. Grady)....Pages 81-83 Influence of Adhesion on the Mechanical Response of Granular Composites (Sharada Bhavanam, Nikhil Karanjgaokar)....Pages 85-90 High-Rate Fracture of Human Skull (C. Allan Gunnarsson, Stephen Alexander, Karin Rafaels, Tim Walter, Tusit Weerasooriya)....Pages 91-94 Assessment of Fluid Cavitation Threshold Using a Polymeric Split Hopkinson Bar-Confinement Chamber Apparatus (Michael C. Bustamante, Duane S. Cronin)....Pages 95-99 Contact Reliability of Pt- and TiN-Coated Microswitches in Different Environments (Changho Oh, Maarten P. de Boer)....Pages 101-103 Mechanics of Biological Systems & Micro-and Nanomechanics , Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics , the fourth volume of eight from the Conference, brings together contributions to important areas of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of topics, including: Cell Mechanics & Traumatic Brain Injury Micromechanical Testing Adhesion and Fracture MEMS Devices and Technology Nano-scale Deformation Mechanisms 1D & 2D Materials Tribology & Wear Research and Applications in Progress