This volume is an excellent guide for anyone interested in variational analysis, optimization, and PDEs. It offers a detailed presentation of the most important tools in variational analysis as well as applications to problems in geometry, mechanics, elasticity, and computer vision. Among the new elements in this second edition: coverage of quasi-open sets and quasi-continuity; an increased num...

We report an experimental and a theoretical study of the radial elasticity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes as a function of external radius. We use atomic force microscopy and apply small indentation amplitudes in order to stay in the linear elasticity regime. The number of layers for a given tube radius is inferred from transmission electron microscopy, revealing constant ratios of external to...

We consider compressible and almost incompressible elasticity on the compu13 tational domain Ω ⊂ IR3 which is partitioned into a number of subdomains. We 14 introduce nodes in the interior of the subdomains and on the interface. We distribute 15 the material parameters such that in a neighborhood of the interface we have com16 pressible and in the interior of a subdomain we have almost incompre...

We study the inverse electrostatic and elasticity problems associated with Poisson and Navier equations. These problems arise in a number of applications, such as diagnostic of electronic devices and analysis of residual stresses in materials. In microelectronics, piecewise constant distributions of electric charge having a checkered structure (i.e., that are constant on rectangular blocks) are...

The influence of inertia and elasticity on the onset and stability of 3-D thermal convection is examined for highly elastic polymeric solutions with constant viscosity. These solutions are known as Boger fluids, and their rheology is approximated by the Oldroyd-B constitutive equation. The onset and the stability of steady convective patterns, namely rolls, hexagons and squares, are studied in ...

We consider the problem of determining the shear modulus of a linearelastic, incompressible medium given boundary data and one component of the displacement field in the entire domain. The problem is derived from applications in quantitative elasticity imaging. We pose the problem as one of minimizing a functional and consider the use of gradient-based algorithms to solve it. In order to calcul...

The success of nonrigid motion analysis using physical finite element model is dependent on the mesh that characterizes the object’s geometric structure. We suggest a deformable mesh adapted to the natural features of images. The adaptive mesh requires much fewer number of nodes than the fixed mesh which was used in our previous work. We demonstrate the higher efficiency of the adaptive mesh in...

We study the elastic properties of soft solids containing air bubbles. Contrary to standard porous materials, the softness of the matrix allows for a coupling of the matrix elasticity to surface tension forces acting on the bubble surface. Thanks to appropriate experiments on model systems, we demonstrate how the elastic response of the soft porous solid is governed by two dimensionless paramet...

Dogs are graced with large upper labial and buccal surfaces which facilitate closure of moderate sized defects. Cats, with their more refined facial conformation, lack the fullness and elasticity of the canine lips and cheeks. While dogs generally present with the greater number of wounds and oral neoplasms of the lips and cheeks, the following techniques employed by the author are equally appl...

Negative Poisson’s ratio polymer foams derived from reticulated open cell foams exhibit large size effects in torsion and bending. Effective moduli increase as diameter decreases in contrast to the prediction of classical elasticity. Size effects of this sort are predicted by Cosserat (micropolar) elasticity in which points can rotate as well as translate and distributed moments are incorporate...