sewing is one of the most commonly used manufacturing processes in the world. in the textile industry, development of sewing machines with optimal mechanical performance is very important. obviously, the quality of sewing, the increase of the needle transmission force and the optimal mechanical advantage are greatly dependent on the design criteria of the needle driving mechanism. unfortunately...

Murfee, Walter L., Laura A. Hammett, Caroline Evans, Liqin Xie, Maria Squire, Clinton Rubin, Stefan Judex, and Thomas C. Skalak. High-frequency, low-magnitude vibrations suppress the number of blood vessels per muscle fiber in mouse soleus muscle. J Appl Physiol 98: 2376–2380, 2005. First published January 27, 2005; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.01135.2004.—Extremely low-magnitude (0.3 g), high-freq...

Size-dependent longitudinal and torsional vibrations of nano-beams are examined by two-phase mixture integral elasticity. A new and efficient elastodynamic model is conceived by convexly combining the local phase with strain- and stress-driven purely nonlocal phases. The proposed stress-driven nonlocal integral mixture leads to well-posed structural problems for any value of the scale parameter...