The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to provide free registration links for the AMD awards event and the Koiter medalist lecture, which will take place on November 3rd, 2021, between 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm Eastern Time. The AMD awards event includes the Timoshenko medalist lecture by Prof. Huajian Gao; while the Koiter medalist lecture will be given by Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel.
The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to announce the 2021 recipients of the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants, each to be awarded at $20,000. The five selected recipients are:
In a new paper, we report our observations of the mechanical response (quasi-static and dynamic) of woire arc additively manufactured steels. An interesting alternative to the "conventional" powder based 3D printing. The paper is temporarily available on:
We welcome applications to complete a doctoral training in Advanced Engineering with Living Materials (ALIVE) as part of the MaP Doctoral School (www.doctoral-school.ethz.ch) hosted by the ETH Zurich Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP). We offer up to 20 full-time doctoral researcher positions to start early 2022.
Have you ever wondered that you can visually see the stress patterns live in a loaded structure! I am not speaking about the contours that you see in commercial finite element software #fea .
For e.g. see the colorful image attached. The fringe patterns are the live stress field around a crack in a loaded structure.
Find more answers on how to interpret these images using state of the art image processing technology in the newly published book:
Towards the development of reusable space systems, high emissivity coatings on fibrous ceramic substrates with improved thermal resistance are needed. In this study WSi2–MoSi2–Si–SiB6-borosilicate glass coatings were prepared on fibrous ZrO2 by slurry dipping and subsequent high temperature rapid sintering. A coating with 20 wt% WSi2 and 50 wt% MoSi2 presents optimal thermal stability with only 10.06 mg/cm2 mass loss and 4.0% emissivity decrease in the wavelength regime 1.27–1.73 μm after 50 h oxidation at 1773 K. The advantages of double phase metal-silicide coatings combining WSi2 and MoSi2 include improved thermal compatibility with the substrate and an enhanced glass-mediated self-healing ability.
We would like to invite you to participate in the Mini-Symposium on "Mechanics and Physics of Structures" within "ESMC2022 - 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference" in Galway (Ireland), July 4-8, 2022.
The deadline for abstract submission is November 19th, 2021.
Mini-symposium Organizers
Sebastien Neukirch (CNRS/UPMC),
Benoit Roman (CNRS/UPMC),
Keith Seffen (University of Cambridge),
Francesco Dal Corso (University of Trento)
Nearly 50 years ago, Eringen developed a nonlocal theory of elasic solids according to which the Causchy stress tensor "sigma" at a point x depends upon the strain tensor "epsilon" not only at the point x but also at all other points in the body. For homogeneous solids, and a few additional assumptions, he showed that the constitutive relation can be reduced to a differential form that has become popular among people studying deformations of functionally graded materials (FGMs). However, an FGM is inhomogene
A most readworthy paper, "Static and dynamic mode I fracture toughness of rigid PUR foams under room and cryogenic temperatures" by E. Linul, L. Marşavina, C. Vălean, R. Bănică, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 225, 15 February 2020, 106274, 1-10, is selected for this ESIS blog. It has received a lot of attention and was for an extended period of time one of the most read papers in EFM.
The Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University invite applications for the newly established Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship (full professor), with particular focus on candidates who are world leaders in mechanics.
