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Short Course on Mechanics of Foams

Submitted by Patrick Onck on

A short course on the “Mechanics of Liquid and Solid Foams” will be offered at CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Udine, Italy, 13-17 July 2015 (see brochure attached).

The course will focus on relationships between the cellular microstructure and nonlinear mechanical behavior of liquid and solid foams, and foam-like biological and synthetic materials. Theoretical models, experimental methods, and numerical simulations will be presented. The course is aimed at PhD students, postdocs, and researchers in academia and industry.

Viscoelastic properties of pre- and post-cure cellular rubbers using rheometer

Submitted by farhan3d on

Hi All,

I would like to know if anyone has had the opportunity to investigate cellular rubbers rheology. I am thinking of characterizing the viscoelastic properties of cellular rubber during cure and after cure in the rheometer, using ASTM D6601. What I am expecting is a distorted cellular structure due to very constrained foam expansion during the blowing agent's decomposition, so the results would obviously be different than the ones obtained from a DMTA machine.

Would like to hear from anyone with some rheology / viscoelastic characterization experience.

Symposium on Advances in modeling and applications of cellular solids at McMAT, Chicago IL, May 31 - June 2

Submitted by aprakash77 on

Dear Colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to participate in the symposium on "Advances in modeling and applications of cellular solids" at the ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, McMAT-2011. The conference will be held in Chicago, IL from May 31 to June 2, 2011.

More information about the conference is available at:

http://www.asmeconferences.org/McMat2011/index.cfm