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Call for Abstracts: SES 2017@Boston, Symposium II-B: Computational Mechanics of Soft Materials in Medicine

Submitted by Hongyan Yuan on
conference

This symposium will focus on the computational modeling of soft materials and their interactions with biological entities for application in medicine. We are particularly interested in materials that can be functionalized to react to external stimuli and/or change their mechanical and chemical properties substantially at room temperature, including, for instance, hydrogels, liquid crystals, un-crosslinked or weakly crosslinked polymers, granular materials, foams, lipid mono/bi-layers as well as soft biological materials (e.g., blood, extracellular matrices, cytoskeleton, biomembranes).

Materials Testing- ADMET Blog

Submitted by Deniz Yalcin on
Material Testing
tensile testing
universal testing machine
accuracy
sheet metal forming

Materials Testing is that part of engineering design, development and research that relies on laboratory testing of one kind or another to answer questions. Testing is also required during manufacturing to ensure a material or product meets some predefined specification. A universal testing machine is used to measure the mechanical properties of materials intension, compression, bending or torsion. Common properties of interest include Offset Yield Strength, Young’s Modulus, Poisson's Ratio, Tensile and Compression Strength and Total Elongation.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Mechanics and Optimisation of Composite Materials at IMDEA Materials

Submitted by claudiosaul.lopes on
job

The Composites Materials Group (http://www.materials.imdea.org/groups/cm/) at IMDEA Materials, led by Drs. Carlos González and Cláudio S. Lopes, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of multiscale computational mechanics and optimization of advanced composites. Candidates with strong background knowledge on computational damage mechanics, model development, numerical simulation and optimization methods for advanced composite materials and structures are strongly encouraged to apply.

Nonlinear programming and closest point return plasticity

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on
education
Plasticity

New article:  Nonlinear programming and closest point return plasticity http://www.parresianz.com/mechanics/plasticity/algorithm/primal-dual-closest-point-return/

This article tries to justify the use of backward Euler stress updates.

-- Biswajit

Development of ductile cementitious composites incorporating microencapsulated phase change materials

Submitted by shavijabranko on

Dear all,

Our group recently published an article on development of strain hardening cementitious composites incorporating phase change materials.

It is available at: 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315636295_Development_of_ducti…

The abstract is given below:

Forward vs backward Euler for return algorithms

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on
education
2D plasticity

In Part 5 of my series on return mapping for plane stress plasticity, I claim that the obsession with backward Euler is not justified if accuracy is important.  See http://www.parresianz.com/mechanics/plasticity/algorithm/plane-stress-drucker-prager-return-part-5/.

Let me know if you disagree and why.

-- Biswajit

More on plane stress Drucker-Prager plasticity

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on
education
2D plasticity

Parts 3 and 4 of the series on plane stress Drucker-Prager plasticity are now online.  More to come soon.

Check out 

http://www.parresianz.com/mechanics/plasticity/algorithm/plane-stress-drucker-prager-return-part-3/

and

http://www.parresianz.com/mechanics/plasticity/algorithm/plane-stress-drucker-prager-return-part-4/

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