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Is it possible to prevent the fall of a rod inside a sliding sleeve due to gravity?

By controlling the transverse oscillations of the constraint and revealing a novel self-tuning dynamic response, we provide a positive answer to this question in our paper:

Published in npj Computational Materials: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-023-01154-w

Published in Acta Materialia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135964542300784X

Authors: Abhishek Arora, Amit Acharya

At the University of Parma (Italy) a call for supporting students wishing

to apply to the prestigious Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship is now open.

The action wants to help students in preparing their project proposal under the supervision of  a university staff member, to be submitted to the 

Horizon Europe call (MSCA postdoctoral fellowship) 

Dear Colleagues, after a great success of the inaugural ASME Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials (SSDM) conference this past summer, I am writing to cordially invite you to attend its 2^nd edition in Seattle, USA, April 29-May 1^st, 2024. The main feature of the SSDM conference is:

Zhi Sheng, Jie Ma, Zihang Shen, Shaoxing Qu, and Zheng Jia*, Chemomechanics Underpinning the Growth and Strengthening Behaviors of Mechanoresponsive Self-Growing Hydrogels, Macromolecules (2023)

Abstract

Background: Helmet systems most commonly experience oblique blunt impacts which cause simultaneous linear and rotational accelerations. The ability to attenuate both linear and rotational accelerations by absorbing the normal shock while accommodating large shear deformations with energy dissipation is critical to developing superior helmet liners that prevent traumatic brain injury (TBI).