Acta Mechanica Sinica, Volume 31, Issue 2, 2015 is online now!

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Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) aims to report recent developments in mechanics and other related fields of research. It covers all disciplines in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics . It explores analytical, computational and experimental progress in all areas of mechanics.

Editors-in-Chief: Tianjian Lu, Wei Shyy, Zhigang Suo

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Acta Mechanica Sinica--2015, 31 (2) Published: 20 May 2015

1: On hairpin vortex generation from near-wall streamwise vortices 

Yinshan Wang, Weixi Huang, Chunxiao Xu [139]

2: An inverse problem to estimate an unknown order of a Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative for a fractional Stokes' first problem for a heated generalized second grade fluid 

Bo Yu, Xiaoyun Jiang, Haitao Qi [153]

3: Thermodynamic and rate variational formulation of models for inhomogeneous gradient materials with microstructure and application to phase field modeling  

Svyatoslav Gladkov, Bob Svendsen [162]

4: Identification of the elastic stiffness of composites using the virtual fields method and digital image correlation 

Lebin Jiang, Baoqiao Guo, Huimin Xie [173]

5: How does a woodpecker work? An impact dynamics approach 

Yuzhe Liu, Xinming Qiu, Tongxi Yu, Jiawei Tao, Ze Cheng [181]

6: Mechanical properties of irradiated multi-phase polycrystalline BCC materials 

Dingkun Song, Xiazi Xiao, Jianming Xue, Haijian Chu, Huiling Duan [191]

7: An elastic model for bioinspired design of carbon nanotube bundles  

Xiaoyu Sun, Zuoqi Zhang, Yuanjie Xu, Yongwei Zhang [205]

8: Noise-induced bistable switching dynamics through a potential energy landscape 

Yuanhong Bi, Zhuoqin Yang, Xiangying Meng, Qishao Lu [216]

9: A piezoelectric energy harvester based on internal resonance  

Liqun Chen, Wenan Jiang [223]

10: Experimental studies on active control of a dynamic system via a time-delayed absorber 

Jian Xu, Yixia Sun [229]

11: Mechanokinetics of receptor-ligand interactions in cell adhesion  

Ning Li, Shouqin Lü, Yan Zhang, Mian Long [248]

12: Tissue level microstructure and mechanical properties of the femoral head in the proximal femur of fracture patients  

Linwei Lü, Guangwei Meng, He Gong, Dong Zhu, Jiazi Gao, Yubo Fan [259]

13: Cell biomechanics and its applications in human disease diagnosis 

Yasaman Nematbakhsh, Chwee Teck Lim [268]