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Two new books for continuum mechanics of solids
I would like to announce two new books that Prof. Lallit Anand and I have just published on continuum mechanics of solids.
On the Degree of Irreversibility of Friction in Sheared Soft Adhesive Contacts
A number of authors have experimentally assessed the influence of friction on adhesive contacts, and generally the contact area has been found to decrease due to tangential shear stresses at the interface. The decrease is however generally much smaller than that predicted already by the Savkoor and Briggs 1977 classical theory using “brittle” fracture mechanics mixed mode model extending the JKR (Griffith like) solution to the contact problem.
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Superior biomimetic nacreous bulk nanocomposites by a multiscale soft-rigid dual-network interfacial design strategy, Chen, Gao, et al., Yu, Matter, 2019
Novelty/impact/significance:
A multiscale soft-rigid dual-network interfacial design strategy produces nacre-like bulk composites with superior mechanical properties, improved stabilities in high humidity and temperature, and the process is a facile, efficient, and scalable fabrication.
Scientific question:
Call article collections on Extreme Mechanics of Soft Active Materials for Soft Robotics
Call article collections on Extreme Mechanics of Soft Active Materials for Soft Robotics
Dear Colleagues,
In collaboration with the Journal “Frontiers in Robotics and AI”, we are bringing together a selected group of international experts to contribute to an open-access article collection on: “Extreme Mechanics of Soft Active Materials for Soft Robotics”
The submission deadline is 01 March 2021.
Visit the collection homepage for the full description of the project:
EML Webinar by Prof. Teng Li on July 29, 2020: Advanced Materials toward a Sustainable Future: Mechanics Design
EML Webinar on July 29, 2020 will be given by Professor Teng Li, the University of Maryland via Zoom meeting. Discussion leader: Professor Zheng Jia, Zhejiang University.
Title: Advanced Materials toward a Sustainable Future: Mechanics Design
Time: 7 am California, 10 am Boston, 3 pm London, 10 pm Beijing on July 29, 2020
Postdoc position in Mechanics of Soft Materials at the Technion
A new postdoctoral fellow position is open at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The research is concerned with the modeling of failure and fracture in soft materials. Potential candidates should have a Ph.D.
Post-doctoral position in mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania
rupture of soft materials
blood clots
constitutive modeling
finite element modeling
Does the loading apparatus stiffness affect the equilibrium of soft adhesive contacts under shear?
The interaction between contact area and frictional forces in adhesive soft contacts is receiving much attention in the scientific community due to its implications in many areas of engineering such as surface haptics and bioin-spired adhesives. In this work, we consider a soft adhesive sphere that is pressed against a rigid substrate and is sheared by a tangential force where the loads are transferred to the sphere through a normal and a tangential spring, representing the loading apparatus stiffness.
Applied Mechanics Division – Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grants 2020
With funding from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the establishment of the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant Program, targeting university faculty engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics that are at the beginning of their academic careers.