**Meet the editor**

Dr Yong X. Gan joined Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at University of Toledo, Ohio, in 2007 as Assistant Professor. He was with Department of Mechanical Engineering at Cooper Union, New York, as Assistant Professor from September 2005 to August 2007. He received B.S. in Chemical Engineeringin1984 from Hunan University, Changsha,

P. R. China. He received M.S. and D.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), Beijing, P. R. China in1987 and 1992, respectively. He received M.Phil. in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2005 from Columbia University, USA. His major research interest is in Advanced Materials and Mechanics.

Contents

**Preface VII** 

J.F. Pommaret

Jianlin Liu

Chapter 5 **Noise and Vibration** 

Xuesong Han

Chapter 8 **Energy Dissipation Criteria** 

Yong X. Gan

Chuan-Chiang Chen

Chapter 6 **Analysis Precision Machining Process** 

Chapter 1 **Spencer Operator and Applications:** 

**From Continuum Mechanics to Mathematical Physics 1** 

**Using Three-Dimensional Reconstructed Microstructures 73** 

Chapter 2 **Transversality Condition in Continuum Mechanics 33** 

**in Complex Hydraulic Tubing Systems 89** 

Chapter 7 **Progressive Stiffness Loss Analysis of Symmetric Laminated** 

Roberto Dalledone Machado, Antonio Tassini Jr., Marcelo Pinto da Silva and Renato Barbieri

**for Surface Contact Damage Evaluation 143** 

**Plates due to Transverse Cracks Using the MLGFM 123** 

Chapter 3 **Incompressible Non-Newtonian Fluid Flows 47**  Quoc-Hung Nguyen and Ngoc-Diep Nguyen

Chapter 4 **Continuum Mechanics of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells** 

**Using Finite Element Method 105** 

Sushrut Vaidya and Jeong-Ho Kim
