This paper provides a brief review on modeling of composite structures. Composite structures in this paper refer to any structure featuring anisotropy and heterogeneity, including but not limited to their traditional meaning of composite laminates made of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites. Common methods used in modeling of composite structures, including the axiomatic method, the formal asymptotic method, and the variational asymptotic method, are illustrated in deriving the classical lamination theory for the composite laminated plates to see their commonalities and differences.

Organization: Biomedical Engineering Laboratory / School of AME / University of Oklahoma

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Dear Colleague,

we invite you and your interested colleagues and students to submit a contribution to the mini-symposium MS036:

“Smart Soft Materials: Additive Manufacturing, Modeling, Design, and Experimentation”

within the 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMA2024), that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 3-7, 2024.

The deadline for presenting an abstract has been extended to January, 29th 2024.

EML Webinar (Young Researchers Forum) on 16 January 2024 will be given by Xueju Wang at University of Connecticut via Zoom meeting

Title: Morphing Materials and Multifunctional Structures/Electronics for Intelligent Systems

Discussion leader: Teng Zhang, Syracuse University

Time: 9:30 am Boston, 2:30 pm London, 3:30 pm Paris, 10:30 pm Beijing on Tuesday, 16 January 2024

Siddharth Singh          Janusz Ginster        Amit Acharya

A technique for developing convex dual variational principles for the governing PDE of nonlinear elastostatics and elastodynamics is presented. This allows the definition of notions of a variational dual solution and a dual solution corresponding to the PDEs of nonlinear elasticity, even when the latter arise as formal Euler-Lagrange equations corresponding to non-quasiconvex elastic energy functionals whose energy minimizers do not exist. This is demonstrated rigorously in the case of elastostatics for the Saint-Venant Kirchhoff material (in all dimensions), where the existence of variational dual solutions is also proven. The existence of a variational dual solution for the incompressible neo-Hookean material in 2-d is also shown. Stressed and unstressed elastostatic and elastodynamic solutions in 1 space dimension corresponding to a non-convex, double-well energy are computed using the dual methodology. In particular, we show the stability of a dual elastodynamic equilibrium solution for which there are regions of non-vanishing length with negative elastic stiffness, i.e. non-hyperbolic regions, for which the corresponding, primal problem is ill-posed and demonstrates an explosive ‘Hadamard instability;’ this appears to have implications for the modeling of physically observed softening behavior in macroscopic mechanical response.  

We are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the RAM3 workshop - Recent Advances in the Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials, which will take place in Rome on the 21st and 22nd of February 2024 at the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University.

We investigate the mechanics and stability of a nanoscale origami crease via a combination of equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. We identify an entropic torque on nanoscale origami creases, and find stability properties have a nontrivial dependence on bending stiffness, radii of curvature of its creases, ambient temperature, its thickness, and its interfacial energy.

Glad to share that the University of Pavia, together with Politecnico di Milano, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and University of Bologna, organizes the International Summer School “Mechanics of active soft materials: experiments, theory, numerics, and applications” within the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, from 1^st to 5^th July 2024 at Villa del Grumello (Como, Italy). https://star.lakecomoschool.org/