A web site APP for rough contact adhesion from simple Ciavarella BAM model
See online App for rough contact adhesion based on the BAM model of Ciavarella
http://www.tribonet.org/adhesion-calculator-for-rough-surfaces-bearing-…
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Advancing the frontiers of silk fibroin protein-based materials for futuristic electronics and clinical wound-healing (Invited review)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2018.01.007 The present review will introduce the basic concepts of silk-based electronics/optoelectronics including the latest technological advances on the use of silk fibroin in combination with other functional components, with an emphasis on improving the performance of next-generation silk-based materials. It also highlights the patterning of silk fibroin to produce micro/nano-scale features, as well as the functionalization of silk fibroin to impart antimicrobial (i.e. antibacterial) properties.
THE "SPORT" OF ROUGH CONTACTS AND THE FRACTAL PARADOX IN WEAR LAWS
DOI10.22190/FUME180109011C
Prof. Michele Ciavarella, Dr. Antonio Papangelo
Steering with light: indexable photomotility in liquid crystalline polymers
DOI: 10.1039/C7RA10619J RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 52510-52516
Open-PhD Positions in Energy Conversion in Nano Materials and Solar Cells
Energy, Control and Optimization (ECO) https://www.ecolab.tamu.edu/ in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University has two open PhD positions. The research project is about energy conversion in Nano-materials and thin film solar cells. Candidates should have a strong background and interests in Radiative Heat Transfer, Nano-Materials, Nano fabrication, Computational Methods and Machine Learning. Programming experience in MATLAB or Python is necessary.
Towards mechanical characterization of soft digital materials for multimaterial 3D-printing
V. Slesarenko and S. Rudykh, Towards mechanical characterization of soft digital materials for multimaterial 3D-printing. Int. J. Eng. Science, 123, 62–72 (2018)
Modeling/defining Loop of blocks of different load amplitude
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In the experiment setup, the fatigue loading spectrum has a loop of 2 blocks of load amplitude. First load amplitude the higher applied for 2X time period followed by lower load amplitude for X time period then the loop repeated till failure. the load sequence was High-Low and Low-High in this loop. X was in thousands so might be suggested as the cyclic response will be stabilized in the first 10 cycles, the first block will dominate the fatigue behaviour at least till fracture, or damage initiation.
Topology optimization of magnetic source distributions for diamagnetic and superconducting levitation
Topology optimization is used to obtain a magnetic source distribution providing levitation of a diamagnetic body or type I superconductor with maximized thrust force. We show that this technique identifies non-trivial source distributions and may be useful to design devices based on non-contact magnetic suspension and other magnetic devices, such as micro-magneto-mechanical devices, high field magnets etc.