Cowin (New York Center for Biomedical Engineering) and Humphrey (biomedical engineering, Texas A&M U.) present seven papers that discuss current research and future directions. Topics concern tissues within the cardiovascular system (arteries, the heart, and biaxial testing of planar tissues such as heart valves). Themes include an emphasis on data on the underlying microstructure, especially collagen; the consideration of the fact that both arteries and the heart contain muscle and that there is, therefore, a need to quantify both the active and passive response; constitutive relations for active behavior; and the growth and remodeling of cardiovascular tissues. Of interest to cardiovascular and biomechanics soft tissue researchers, and bioengineers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Size Effects in Engineering Mechanics and Manufacturing provides a detailed evaluation of size effects in mechanics, manufacturing and material sciences and their effects on related physical behaviors and phenomena. Sections address the physical aspects of size effects, including tension, compression, and bending deformation in mechanics, fatigue and damage behaviors, the mechanisms behind these effects, modeling techniques for determining the behavior and phenomena of size effects, practical applications of size effects in material sciences and micro-manufacturing, how size effects influence the process performance, process outcome, properties and quality of fabricated parts and components, and future size effects.This book provides not only a reference volume on size effects but also valuable applications for engineers, scientists, academics and research students involved in materials processing, manufacturing, materials science and engineering, engineering mechanics, mechanical engineering and the management of enterprises using materials processing technologies in the mass-production of related products. - Describes the physical aspects of size effects and provides the underlying theories and principles to explain the mechanisms behind them - Presents the practical applications of size effects in material sciences and micro-manufacturing and outlines the influence of process performance, process outcome, properties, and quality of fabricated parts and components - Provides guidelines to understand size effects in multi-scaled manufacturing process design and product development

The volume contains the proceedings of the international conference New Trends in Continuum Mechanics, held at Constanta, Romania between September 8-12, 2003. The conference was devoted to all domains of continuum mechanics; it also included a minisymposium on homogenization and its applications and a section devoted to numerical methods. The volume contains thirty-seven refereed papers; among the subjects covered, are: theoretical and laboratory modelling, mathematical modelling in biology, oil recovery, contact problems with friction, studies on different materials, non-Newtonian fluids, electrorheological and magnetorheological fluids, thermo-mechanical and electro-mechanical problems in solids.

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