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Dear member,

I am delighted to extend an invitation to attend the next US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) Distinguished Lecture to be delivered by Professor John Rogers of Northwestern University. The event will take place in-person, at the National Academies in Washington DC, and online (Zoom Live Stream) on May 5^th, 2023, 5-6 PM ET. A flyer with detailed information and a link for registration is enclosed.

Dear iMechanica community,

I would like to share with you the publication of our paper Identifying elastic wave polarization and bandgaps in periodic solid media, in the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 

Title: Identifying elastic wave polarization and bandgaps in periodic solid media

Authors: Maria Carrillo-Munoz and Bhisham Sharma

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Dear colleagues,

I'm happy to share a new article with you Polymer networks which locally rotate to acommodate stresses, torques, and deformations to be published in JMPS.

Title: Polymer networks which locally rotate to acommodate stresses, torques, and deformations

Author: Matthew Grasinger

Authors - Prashant K. Jha, Timothy Breitzman, and Kaushik Dayal 

Journal - Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 

Abstract

Dear friends, I want to share our recent work on the shape characteristics of 2D crystal blisters. Micro- and nano-sized blisters can form spontaneously when two-dimensional (2D) crystals are transferred onto substrates because liquid molecules that are initially adsorbed on 2D material and substrate surfaces can be squeezed and trapped by interfacial forces. On the one hand, blisters are undesirable in 2D material devices as they impede charge/photon/phonon transport across the interface, so various means were developed to eliminate interfacial blisters. On the other hand, m

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University of Southampton, UK

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