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Special issue
Tenth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM X)
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Edited by Thomas Attard |
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Contents
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Preface
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Thomas Attard |
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Fractal elements
781–797
Samer Adeeb and Marcelo Epstein |
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Application and design of
lead-core base isolation for reducing structural demands in
short stiff and tall steel buildings and highway bridges
subjected to near-field ground motions
799–817
Thomas L. Attard and Kittinan Dhiradhamvit |
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Homogenization and
effective properties of periodic thermomagnetoelectroelastic
composites
819–836
Julian Bravo-Castillero, Reinaldo Rodríguez-Ramos, Houari Mechkour, José A. Otero, Joanka Hernández Cabanas, Lazaro Maykel Sixto, Raul Guinovart-Díaz and Federico J. Sabina |
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Deployment procedure for
the Tetrahedron Constellation
837–854
Pedro A. Capó-Lugo and Peter M. Bainum |
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Evolutionary control of
structurally damaged steel buildings using an optimal state
transition formulation
855–886
Thomas L. Attard and Robin E. Dansby |
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Effective elastic
properties of nanotube reinforced composites with slightly
weakened interfaces
887–900
Milton Esteva and Pol D. Spanos |
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Continuum mechanics models
of fractal porous media: Integral relations and extremum
principles
901–912
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski |
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An endoscopic grasper with
corrugated plate-shaped tactile sensors
913–926
Mohammad Ameen Qasaimeh, Mohammadreza Ramezanifard and Javad Dargahi |
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A new earthquake-resistant
concrete frame with fiber-reinforced plastic fabrics and
shifted plastic hinges
927–940
M. Saiid Saiidi, Erik Reinhardt and Faramarz Gordaninejad |
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Nonlinear bending response
of giant magnetostrictive laminated actuators in magnetic
fields
941–949
Yasuhide Shindo, Fumio Narita, Kotaro Mori and Tasuku Nakamura |
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A dispersive nonlocal model
for wave propagation in periodic composites
951–976
Juan Miguel Vivar-Pérez, Ulrich Gabbert, Harald Berger, Reinaldo Rodríguez-Ramos, Julián Bravo-Castillero, Raul Guinovart-Díaz and Federico J. Sabina |
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A cochlear model using the
time-averaged Lagrangian and the push-pull mechanism in the
organ of Corti
977–986
Yongjin Yoon, Sunil Puria and Charles R. Steele |
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