Contents
Birth of Mechanical Engineering and a Glimpse
into the Future Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Amitabha Ghosh
The Art and Signs of a Few Good Mechanical Designs in MEMS . . . . . 29
G. K. Ananthasuresh
Nonlinear Dynamics of Resonant Microelectromechanical System
(MEMS): A Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
G. Chakraborty and Nikul Jani
Automated Upgraded Generalized Full-Discretization Method:
Application to the Stability Study of a Thin-Walled Milling
Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chigbogu Ozoegwu and Peter Eberhard
Space Elevator—A Revolutionary Space Transportation System . . . . . . 105
Arun K. Misra and Stephen Cohen
Recent Advances in Free Surface Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Gautam Biswas and Kirti Chandra Sahu
Fluid Dynamics in Deformable Microchannels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
M. Kiran Raj and Suman Chakraborty
Current Status of the Development of Blood-Based Point-of-Care
Microdevices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Vijai Laxmi, Siddhartha Tripathi, and Amit Agrawal
Origami MEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Derosh George and Marc J. Madou
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