Micro and Nanomechanics, Volume 5 : Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

Micro-and Nanomechanics, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including: MEMS & Energy Harvesting 1D & 2D Materials/Fabrication Micro/Nano Microscopy Techniques Nanomechanics Flexible & Stretchable Electronics Interfaces & Adhesion Front Matter ....Pages i-vii Nanomechanics Instabilities and TeraHertz Vibrations: From Geochemical Evolution to Fracto-Emission Seismic Precursors (A. Carpinteri, O. Borla)....Pages 1-5 Femtosecond Laser Machining of Micro-tensile Specimens for High Throughput Mechanical Testing (Daniel J. Magagnosc, Jonathan P. Ligda, Tomoko Sano, Brian E. Schuster)....Pages 7-9 PVDF-TrFE Electroactive Polymer Based Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMs) Structures (William G. Kaval, Robert A. Lake, Ronald A. Coutu Jr.)....Pages 11-17 Novel Image Correlation Based Techniques for Mechanical Analysis of MEMS (Sandra M. Kleinendorst, R. R. M. Borger, J. P. M. Hoefnagels, M. G. D. Geers)....Pages 19-28 Interphase Mechanics in Fatigued Carbon Fiber Composite Materials (Todd C. Henry, Daniel P. Cole, Frank Gardea, Robert A. Haynes)....Pages 29-35 Energy Balance During Elettrolysis and Cavitation Experiments (A. Carpinteri, O. Borla, A. Manuello, G. Niccolini)....Pages 37-40 Characterizing Traction-Separation Relations of TSV/SI Interfaces by Nanoindentation (Chenglin Wu, Rui Huang, Kenneth M. Liechti)....Pages 41-46 Size Effects in Single-Crystal Metallic Micro- and Nanocubes (Ramathasan Thevamaran, Siddhartha Pathak, Sadegh Yazdi, Seog-Jin Jeon, Olawale Lawal, Nathan Mara et al.)....Pages 47-49 An Experimental Study to Guide AFM-Based TBN of Nanochannels (Rapeepan Promyoo, Hazim El-Mounayri, Mangilal Agarwal)....Pages 51-60 Hybrid Nanomaterials for Flexible Electronics Interconnects (Sabyasachi Ganguli, Sergei Shenogin, Vikas Varshney, Ajit K. Roy)....Pages 61-63 Characterization of a MEMS Electrostatic Microgripper for Micromanipulation and Sensing (Martin Phelan, Cosme Furlong)....Pages 65-72 Dynamic Characterization of a High-Resolution MEMS Force Sensor for Middle-Ear Mechanics (Haimi Tang, Jeffrey T. Cheng, Michael E. Ravicz, John J. Rosowski, Cosme Furlong)....Pages 73-81