The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Ares Rosakis, the Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, as the recipient of the 2018 Timoshenko Medal.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8TB00819A
Fresh in 2018 Journal of Materials Chemistry B HOT Papers! We present integrative experimental and computational understanding of the thermal response in adaptive hydrogels tailor-made from silk-elastin-like proteins that are tunable and responsive to multiple simultaneous external stimuli.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor David Barnett, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University, as the recipient of the 2018 Daniel C. Drucker Medal.
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The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Taher Saif, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2018 Warner T. Koiter Medal.
The University of Tulsa (TU) Department of Mechanical Engineering is searching for a postdoctoral researcher to support our recently awarded U.S. Department of Energy SunShot award for GEN3 CSP Collectors https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/generation-3-concentrating-solar-power-systems-gen3-csp.
Published in Advanced Science: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/advs.201800239
New robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water
When we think of robots, we normally think of motors and batteries and electronics, but engineers at Caltech and ETH Zurich have created a swimming robot that's powered by material deformation. That means it's made using materials that change shape in response to temperature swings, and that deformation pushes the device through water.
In this paper, we present some analytical solutions for the stress fields of nonlinear anisotropic solids with distributed line and point defects.
Dear Mechanicians,
a new project at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, Italy) has just been launched to create the first open access database of rough surfaces from nature and technology, see:
http://musam.imtlucca.it/wikisurf.html
People are invited to contribute to the database by providing images of surfaces acquired using experimental techniques, as well as the corresponding elevation data field (raw x,y,z data in columns).
