Abstract A challenging task in nonlocal continuum mechanics consists formulating constitutive relations leading to well-posed structural problems. Several strategies have been adopted overcome issues inherent applicability of Eringen’s pure theory nanostructures, such as local/nonlocal mixtures elasticity and integral models involving modified averaging kernels. These can be applied the ill-pos...

The contents of the small intestine are fluid in character, travel rapidly through the 22 feet of its length, and begin to issue through the ileo-csecal valve within four to five hours of a meal. They travel through the large intestine far more slowly, reaching the hepatic flexure in six and a half hours, the splenic flexure in nine hours, and the pelvic colon in about eighteen hours?in a semi-...

This paper describes the design of a small-scale three degree-of-freedom compliant-mechanismbased manipulator with an approximately 2cm x 2cm x 2cm cubic workspace. The manipulator exhibits a significantly larger range of motion and better spatial structural properties than a conventional compliant mechanism, due primarily to a unique flexure joint developed by the authors. A brief description ...

This paper presents a controller design to compensate the effects of time delay in a flexure-based piezoelectric stack driven nanopositioner. The effects of the time delay in flexure nanopositioners is illustrated and identified by means of experimentally obtaining the frequency response of the system. Moreover, a theoretical model which takes into account the dependence between the sampling ti...

The evidence is accumulating that dinucleotide steps other than AA/TT affect DNA flexure of AnTm (m + n greater than = 4) containing fragments. However, it is not clear whether macroscopic DNA flexure without AA/TT steps might occur. In this paper we demonstrate the anomaly in electrophoretic mobility of non AA/TT repetitive DNA sequences which is a function of sequence phasing. Therefore, our ...

Si3N4/BN fibrous monoliths were prepared with 4 wt% Y2O3 added as a sintering aid to the Si3N4. Residual carbon, present in the billet before hot-pressing, was shown to influence the final microstructure. The sintering aid glass, known to migrate into the BN cell boundaries during hotpressing, was not sufficient in quantity to prevent premature shear failure when samples were tested in flexure....

We have developed a cantilever holder for spurious-free cantilever excitation in liquid by piezoactuator. In the holder, generation and propagation of an acoustic wave are suppressed by "acoustic barriers," i.e., boundaries between two materials having significantly different acoustic impedance while cantilever vibration is excited by "flexure drive mechanism" utilizing elastic deformation of a...

We present a novel flexure-based wrist design intended for use with needle-sized robotic manipulators. It is designed to be mounted at the tip of a traditional surgical needle, deployed through an endoscope working channel, or attached to the tip of a concentric tube robot. In all these applications, the wrist enables dexterity in small spaces. The wrist consists of two stacked flexure joints t...