Joost Vlassak is promoted to Full Professor with Tenure at Harvard
We have just heard the great news that our colleague (iMechanician number 12), Joost Vlassak, has been promoted to Full Professor with Tenure at Harvard.
Blog posts
metal foam
cellular metal: space is divided into distinct cells. The boundaries of these cells are made of solid metal, the interior are voids. Ideally, the individual cells are all separated from each other by metal but often this restriction is relaxed
A new type of bubble raft--challenge for clever students
17 years ago, while a postdoc at IBM meant to be doing other things, I thought about the following. Then recently I visited Ali Argon at MIT, and we discussed conventional bubble rafts and how useful they had been in studies of some problems in mechanics...such as of defects and so on.
Plastic bonded energetic materials
plastic bonded explosives are composites containing energetic grains, ranging in size from less than one to a few hundred micrometers, embedded in a matrix of high-polymer binder.
Quantum Confinement Induced Strain in Quantum Dots
In the attached pre-print, we investigate quantum confinement induced strain in quantum dots. This paper has been written keeping in mind the condensed matter physics/quantum dot community (accepted for publication in Phy.
A pool filled with non-newtonian fluid
They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water made on a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a non-newtonian fluid. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid. Video was recorded at Barcelona, Spain.
Does anyone know a collection of Lennard Jones potential material constants??
I am trying to find out the theoretical adhesive strength limit of a few materials, or more precisely the ratio adhesive strength limit to elastic modulus. I think this is after all part of the Lennard-Jones constants potential - theoretical adhesive strength limit is simply the maximum of the curve.
How do I resize my window for easier reading?
The Drupal software we use for iMechanica makes the blog posts very wide. It may be a little uncomfortable to read from the far left of the window to the far right. With a window so wide, it's easy to lose your place in the reading in moving to the next line of text.
Large-scale hierarchical molecular modeling of nanostructured biological materials
There have been several posts recently discussing new directions in computational mechanics. Here is a review article that appeared recently that may be of interest.
Large-scale hierarchical molecular modeling of nanostructured biological materials