Background. The study of the deformation of curved rods subjected to bending and its associated stress state is a complex task that has not been treated in depth in the literature, which makes difficult to obtain constitutive ...

The aim of this article is to provide a scientific and statistical basis to identify the murder weapon in stabbing cases from the geometric characteristics of the stab-marks left on human ribs. For this purpose, a quantitative ...

The strength of soft tissues is due mainly to collagen fibers. In most collagenous tissues, the arrangement of the fibers is random, but has preferred directions. The random arrangement makes it difficult to make deterministic ...

Background. It is well established that the probability of occurrence of acute subdural hematomas in traumatic situations increases with age, since the main cause of such hematomas is the mechanical failure of cerebral ...

El presente libro ha sido concebido como una introducción al cálculo de estructuras complejas y se dirige a estudiantes que ya han superado un primer curso de resistencia de materiales. Los capítulos 1 y 2 explican el ...