Acta Mechanica Sinica, Vol.30, Issue 1, 2014

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The first issue in 2014 (Volume 30, Issue 1) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is now online.   

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 Acta Mechanica Sinica--2014, 30 (1)   Published: 20 January 2014

Preface: Mechanical characterization of soft materials 
Yan-Ping Cao, Yang-Tse Cheng

Nanoscale viscoelastic properties and adhesion of polydimethylsiloxane for tissue engineering Hot! 
J. Chen, K. E. Wright, M. A. Birch

Viscoelastic analysis of single-component and composite PEG and alginate hydrogels Hot! 
Jenna M. Shapiro, Michelle L. Oyen

Mechanical properties of double-stranded DNA biofilm with Gaussian distribution Hot! 
Heng-Song Tang, Wei-Lie Meng, Neng-Hui Zhang

Separating viscoelasticity and poroelasticity of gels with different length and time scales Hot! 
Qi-MingWang, Anirudh C. Mohan, Michelle L. Oyen, Xuan-He Zhao

Linear stability of a fluid channel with a porous layer in the center 
Qi Li, Hai-Yan Lei, Chuan-Shan Dai

An enhanced treatment of boundary conditions in implicit smoothed particle hydrodynamics 
Ya-Wei Han, Hong-Fu Qiang, Hu Liu, Wei-Ran Gao

Analytical solution of a double moving boundary problem for nonlinear flows in one-dimensional semi-infinite long porous media with low permeability 
Wen-Chao Liu, Jun Yao, Zhang-Xin Chen

The application of three-dimensional hydroelastic analysis of ship structures in Pekeris hydro-acoustic waveguide environment 
Ming-Song Zou, You-Sheng Wu, Yan-Min Liu

Coupled extension and thickness-twist vibrations of lateral field excited AT-cut quartz plates 
Ting-Feng Ma, Rong-Xing Wu, Ji Wang, Jian-Ke Du, Li-Li Yuan, Fa-Peng Yu, Chao Xie

A continuous-discontinuous cellular automaton method for cracks growth and coalescence in brittle material 
Fei Yan, Xia-Ting Feng, Peng-Zhi Pan, Shao-Jun Li

Nanoscale mass sensing based on vibration of single-layered graphene sheet in thermal environments 
S. Ahmad Fazelzadeh, Esmaeal Ghavanloo

A meshfree-based local Galerkin method with condensation of degree of freedom for elastic dynamic analysis 
De-An Hu, Yi-Gang Wang, Yang-Yang Li, Xu Han, Yuan-Tong Gu

Vibration analysis of axisymmetric functionally graded viscothermoelastic spheres 
D. K. Sharma, J. N. Sharma, S. S. Dhaliwal, V. Walia

Dynamics and adaptive control of a dual-arm space robot with closed-loop constraints and uncertain inertial parameters 
Ying-Hong Jia, Quan Hu, Shi-Jie Xu