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iMechanica Video: National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films

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This collection of videos was created in ~1969 to explain fluid mechanics in an accessible way for undergraduate engineering and physics students. See http://web.mit.edu/hml/notes.html for notes associated with these videos.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk40PnWhv4dXMs70td05Ij-3fwLFMDA8t

iMechanica Video: Richard Feynman Messenger Lectures

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In these Messenger Lectures on "The Character of Physical Law," originally delivered at Cornell University and recorded by BBC Nov. 9-19, 1964, physicist Richard Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws and gathers their common features into one broad principle of invariance. From 1945 to 1950, Feynman taught theoretical physics at Cornell. He went on to accept a professorship at Caltech and was named co-winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics.

iMechanica Video: Throwing a Needle Through Glass in Slow Motion

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20 million views in YouTube. High-speek camera captures how a Shaolin Master throws a needle through glass. Dynamic brittle facture in slow mo. 

Like this video? Check out other iMechanica Videos in the "Mechanics in slow mo" playlist. If you don't see it, you don't get it.

 

National Webinar on Avian-inspired Smart Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Professor Daniel Inman, University of Michigan

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Greetings From Shiv Nadar University, India!
 
"Mechanical Engineering Department at Shiv Nadar University is organizing a National Webinar on "Avian-inspired Smart Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" by Professor Daniel Inman, Harm Buning Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan.
Topic: Avian-inspired Smart Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Date and Time: 3rd. June at 7pm IST, All are cordially welcome to attend! URL Links for registration is : Register here: https://bit.ly/3ceItxi 
 

iMechanica Video: Why spaghetti never snaps in half? 130,000 fps slow mo video reveals

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Challenge yourself to snap a spaghetti stick in half by bending two ends. It always snaps into three or more pieces, but not two. But why? Indeed this phenomenon has puzzled many people, including the great Richard Feynman, for many years. The puzzle was only solved in recent years. Slow mo videos by ultrahigh speed camera reveal why. Check out this iMechanica Video with 6+ million view on YouTube. 

Generalised boundary conditions for hydrogen transport at crack tips

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Dear iMechanicians,

I hope the present work is of interest to you. We present a new formulation for resolving the electrochemical-diffusion interface in hydrogen embrittlement modelling 

E. Martínez-Pañeda, A. Díaz, L. Wright, A. Turnbull

Generalised boundary conditions for hydrogen transport at crack tips

Corrosion Science 173, 108698 (2020)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010938X20305345

Postdoctoral position at Texas A&M University

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One postdoctoral position is available in the Computational Cardiovascular Bioengineering Lab at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. This position will focus on developing and using integrated computational-experimental models of cardiovascular function. Some representative research projects are described here: http://c2bl.engr.tamu.edu/.