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MRC Elsevier Distinguished Lecture, NJIT, Wednesday 11 April 2012

Submitted by Dan Lovegrove on

 

Elsevier is pleased to announce that Professor Thomas Hughes will be presenting 'Isogeometric Analysis', the Mechanics Research Communications Elsevier Distinguished Lecture (sponsored by Elsevier and the New Jersey Institute of Technology Granular Science Laboratory). The lecture will take place in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, NJIT, on Wednesday April 18, 2012, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and we are hoping to post it on the web at a later date. Full details are available at

Lecture 'Mechanics of Soft Active Materials' by Zhigang Suo was successfully held in Tongji Univ.

Submitted by Andy Chu on

On May 29th, Prof. Zhigang Suo, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and professor of Mechanics and Materials at Harvard University, made two lectures for teachers and students in Tongji University, titled “from study in Harvard to be elected to the US National Academy of Engineering” and “Mechanics of Soft Active Materials”.

Lectures 14 & 16; Matrix cracking, cracks intersecting an interface, and crack kinking

Submitted by John W. Hutchinson on

Matrix cracking in composites and the competition between penetration and deflection when a crack approaches an interface, and the competition between advance in the interface and kinking out of the interface for an interface crack.