Abstract: The mechanical analysis of electronic packaging has significant impact on the system reliability of an electronic device, and, therefore, is critical in packaging design and manufacturing. The ...

Abstract: A novel formulation for elastoplasticity has been recently proposed by Liu and Hong. These authors have explored the internal symmetry of the constitutive model for perfect plasticity to ensure ...

Abstract: Manufacturability analysis of product design reduces the downstream problems of manufacturing. Such design approaches are referred to as Virtual Prototyping when performed on the computer. In the ...

Abstract: Pneumatic actuators are capable of providing high power output levels at a relatively low cost. In addition, they are clean, lightweight, and can be easily serviced. The difficulty of achieving ...

Abstract: In this paper, a nonlinear finite element framework was established for processing mechanics modeling of flip-chip packaging assemblies and relevant layered manufacturing. In particular, topological ...

Abstract: A unified constitutive model for polymer films is proposed with viscoelastic characterization at small deformation and viscoplastic characterization at large deformation based on molecular chain ...

Abstract: Thermally-induced failure is a major reliability issue for electronic packaging. Due to the highly nonlinear behaviors and thermal mismatch of packaging materials, an electronic package exhibits ...

Abstract: Due to the development of high speed machinery, robots, and aerospace structures, the research of flexible body systems undergoing both gross motion and elastic deformation has seen increasing ...

Abstract: Taking advantage of a piezoelectric material to fabricate miniature mobile robots, this study presents a similarity method, fabrication process, and walking experiment method. A curved piezoelectric ...

Abstract: In order to make a robot precisely track desired periodic trajectories, this work proposes a sliding mode based repetitive learning control method, which incorporates characteristics of sliding ...