1. Introduction to the special issue on the VIII Latin-American Congress on Mechanical Engineering

   • Marco Ceccarelli
   • René Vinicio Sánchez

   Editorial 02 September 2015 Pages: 219 - 220

2. One DOF mechanism for the mechanical harvest of vines in an arbor structure and the validation of the acceleration of grape berry harvesting

   • Osvaldo Penisi
   • José Bocca
   • Pedro Bocca

   Research Article 11 September 2015 Pages: 221 - 232

3. Modeling and simulation of normal and hemiparetic gait

   • Lely A. Luengas
   • Esperanza Camargo
   • Giovanni Sanchez

   Research Article 13 August 2015 Pages: 233 - 241

4. Design of active orthoses for a robotic gait rehabilitation system

   • A. C. Villa-Parra
   • L. Broche
   • A. Frizera-Neto

   Review Article 08 September 2015 Pages: 242 - 254

5. Some remarks on the engineering application of the fatigue crack growth approach under nonzero mean loads

   • Jorge Alberto Rodriguez Duran
   • Ronney Mancebo Boloy
   • Rafael Raider Leoni

   Research Article 30 July 2015 Pages: 255 - 262

6. An invariant descriptor for conjugate forced convection-conduction cooling of 3D protruding heaters in channel flow

   • Thiago Antonini Alves
   • Paulo H. D. Santos
   • Murilo A. Barbur

   Research Article 08 September 2015 Pages: 263 - 276

7. Fault diagnosis of spur gearbox based on random forest and wavelet packet decomposition

   • Diego Cabrera
   • Fernando Sancho
   • Rafael E. Vásquez

   Research Article 11 September 2015 Pages: 277 - 286

8. Experimental evaluation and simulation of volumetric shrinkage and warpage on polymeric composite reinforced with short natural fibers

   • Jonnathan D. Santos
   • Jorge I. Fajardo
   • Luis M. López

   Research Article 29 August 2015 Pages: 287 - 293

9. Elastic modulus and thermal stress in coating during heat cycling with different substrate shapes

   • Daniel Gaona
   • Alfredo Valarezo

   Research Article 08 September 2015 Pages: 294 - 300

10. Non-thermal plasma for exhaust gases treatment

    • Elvia Alva R.
    • Marquidia Pacheco P.
    • Hilda Frías P.

    Research Article 13 August 2015 Pages: 301 - 305

11. Determination of energy dissipation of a spider silk structure under impulsive loading

    • Jorge Alencastre
    • Carlos Mago
    • Richard Rivera

    Research Article 21 September 2015 Pages: 306 - 310