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Large deformation of shape-memory polymer-based lattice metamaterials. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (2022) 107593  

The Applied Mechanics Executive Committee (AMD-EC) is pleased to announce the 2022 IMECE student travel award competition, which is sponsored by the Haythornthwaite Foundation*.

This article addresses the interaction of two coaxial cylinders separated by a thin fluid layer. The cylinders are flexible, have a finite length, and are subject to a vibration mode of an Euler–Bernoulli beam. Assuming a narrow channel, an inviscid and linear theoretical approach is carried out, leading to a new simple and tractable analytical expression of the fluid forces.

Hard-magnetic soft materials have attracted broad interests because of their flexible programmability, non-contact activation and rapid response in various applications such as soft robotics, biomedical devices and flexible electronics. Such multifunctional materials consist of a soft matrix embedded with hard-magnetic particles, and can exhibit large deformations under external magnetic stimuli. Here, we develop a three-dimensional (3D) rod model to predict spatial deformations (extension, bending and twist) of slender hard-magnetic elastica.

May a double restabilization of the trivial path occurr at monotonically increasing compression force?

May movable constraints be exploited to attain target force–displacement curves?

We provide a positive answer to both of these questions in our paper: Koutsogiannakis, Bigoni, Dal Corso. Double restabilization and design of force-displacement response of the extensible elastica with movable constraints, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids (2022)

Dear colleagues, 

Dear Colleague, 

I'm pleased to announce our latest paper on configurational mechanics has just appeared in Acta Mechanica:

Nathaniel N. Goldberg and Oliver M. O’Reilly. A Material Momentum Balance Law for Shells and Plates with Application to Phase Transformations and Adhesion. Acta Mechanica, 2022.

Open Access is kindly provided by UC Berkeley Library.

Dear All,

I am excited to share that we recently developed iVABS as an integrated VABS-based framework for design and optimization, parametric studies, uncertainty quantifications of composite rotor blades, and other beam-like structures. This tool is particularly useful for rapid design of composite slender structures with accuracy of detailed 3D FEA at the speed of simple engineering beam theories.  

Learn more and try iVABS at https://lnkd.in/gz952U6W.

Sameh Tawfick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (tawfick [at] illinois.edu)

Birds have feathers, animals have fur, humans and plants have hair, and mimicking these multifunctional morphologies will undoubtedly improve future robots, buildings, and drones 

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Developing Potential Energy Surfaces for Graphene-Based 2D–3D Interfaces From Modified High-Dimensional Neural Networks for Applications in Energy Storage

ASME Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage