Blog posts

Location: The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (http://mie.njit.edu) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (http://www.njit.edu). 

Cyclic Plasticity of the As-Built EOS Maraging Steel: Preliminary Experimental and Computational Results

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/4/1232/htm

Jian Cheng, Zheng Jia*, Teng Li*, A constitutive model of microfiber reinforced anisotropic hydrogels: with applications to wood-based hydrogels, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 138 (2020) 103893 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103893)

I have a vacancy with my colleague Prof. Verstappen at the University of Groningen for a PhD student to work on the computational design of magnetically-driven soft robots (see details in the attached description). Candidates preferably have hands-on experience with finite element development and implementation. If you are interested, please send a CV before March 21 at p.r.onck [at] rug.nl.

An urgent annoncement for the PostDoc position (at the University of Haifa, Israel) for the FEM modelling project on hydrologically-triggerred  earthquakes and their aftershocks. The candidates with knowledge of solid mechanics (elastoplasticily) and poroelasticity (preferably) are invited to submit their applications asap.  Advanced fellowships is guaranteed.

Journal Club for March 2020: Molecular Simulation-Guided and Physics-Informed Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Viscoelasticity

Ying Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

1.       Introduction

MDPI- Sustainability:  Special Issue "Sustainability of Additive Manufacturing and 3D-printed Parts"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/AdditiveManufacturing_3D-printedParts

Submission deadline :30 June 2020

This is our recent work on the design of fatigue-resistant hydrogel adhesion. In this work, we show that fatigue-resistant hydrogel adhesion can be achieved by anchoring ordered nanocrystalline domains at the interface. This method is applicable to glass, ceramic, titanium, aluminum, stainless steel, and even elastomers including PU and PDMS. We also demonstrate its potential applications as endurant hydrogel coatings for versatile engineering materials with complex geometries.