Dear Colleagues,
We hope you and your families are all doing well during these challenging times.
This is a reminder to submit an abstract to the "Instabilities in Solids and Structures" symposium for the 2020 IMECE.
Due to COVID-19 the conference this year will be virtual (please see https://event.asme.org/IMECE for more info). Note that the final deadline is Friday, July 31.
Most of the research carried out on hypervelocity collisions, of the kind encountered in space, assume that the projectile hits a stationary target. In reality, both the target and the projectile are moving at high velocity in a non-colinear fasion. We present here a study of this phenomenon and its rfelationship with oblique impact.
We are looking for an Assistant Professor who can strengthen our position in the field of Multiscale modelling of multifunctional supramolecular materials at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. The development of bio-inspired supramolecular and hybrid (nano) materials is attracting much interest.
I would like to announce two new books that Prof. Lallit Anand and I have just published on continuum mechanics of solids.
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.
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
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 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
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.
