The elastic properties of uniform polycrystalline materials without defects depend on both the constitutive properties of the constituents and the microstructural characteristics like the distribution of grain orientations and grain shapes. For an overview concerning the homogenization of elastic properties see, e.g., [1]. The elementary bounds by Voigt and Reuss take into account only the volu...

Edward J. Nicolson and Ronald S. Fearing Department of EE&CS University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 Abstract A linear elastic plane strain model for a cylindrical nger with a solid core and elastic surface is developed. This model is used to determine the subsurface strain impulse responses as well as pressure distributions in the contact region for indentation of the cylinder by rigid obj...

Biological membranes are elastic media in which the presence of a transmembrane protein leads to local bilayer deformation. The energetics of deformation allow two membrane proteins in close proximity to influence each other’s equilibrium conformation via their local deformations, and spatially organize the proteins based on their geometry. We use the mechanosensitive channel of large conductan...