Mike Ciavarella's blog

dear friends

Jake Fontana and coauthor found in PRL (See attached)

dear Imechanica friend

  maybe you want to sign the petition I launched, together with many top scientists and president of the italian evaluation agency and former rector of University of Bari, and other former rectors, to the italian president Mattarella and prime Minister Draghi , which you find here. You can see there is also an english translation.

dear collegues 

There is a big open question in viscoelastic crack propagation in between the Schapery solution for viscoelastic cracks, and that of Nobel prize winner DeGennes and of Persson/Brener:  would you like to join the challenge???

See

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347509125_A_challenge_to_resolv...

Abstract

Not everyone has noticed, also from our previous studies including a letter to Nature,  that in the list of 100 000 most cited scientists by Ioannides et al. recently published in PLOS Biology, comparing the career database (1996-2017) with that of 2017, composed of around 2% of Italians, all the states we analysed except for Italy and China and India have suffered a decline in the number of researchers present in the 2017 data set compared to even substantial career data (Japan –20% nationally ).

dear collegues

  I'd be very grateful if you could have a look, if not a deep reading, at the phd thesis of my last student, playing on classical results on uniaxial fatigue, but with a view of simple, unified perspective on constant and varying amplitude fatigue.  We made large use of e-fatigue.com web site and the data in there.
 Thanks in advance for any remark.  The final thesis will be submitted in few weeks time.

Here you find a response to the MCD paradox from McMeeking, M.Ciavarella, G.Cricrì, and KS Kim.  Here.

The paper is dedicated to number one of Mechanical engineering in the world, John Hutchinson from Harvard.

Title: The false myth of the rise in self-citations, and the impressively positive effect of bibliometric evaluations on the increase of the impact of Italian research

Authors: Pietro D'Antuono and Michele Ciavarella

Categories: physics.soc-ph math.ST stat.TH   Comments: 20 pages, 8 figures, 10 tables, in English and inItalian  License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02948

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An interesting paper on historical aspects of classical beam theory.

See this impressive ranking of the top 100 000 scientists in the world.

Somebody told me about it as I appear as the best of my University, Politecnico di Bari in Italy.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.30...