Nominations for the 2021 USACM Honors and Awards are now being accepted. For information on guidelines and submitting nominations, go to this web page:
http://forms.usacm.org/2021_HA_Call
The deadline for submission is January 31, 2021. As a past President of the USACM, I'd like to encourage members of the iMechanica community to consider suitable awardees and nominate individuals as appropriate.
Dear colleagues,
happy New Year!
The submission deadline for the special issue "Advances in Elastic Micro-Structured Systems and Metamaterials" is approaching.
Interested authors may have a look at the website for further information about the contents of the special issue and about the instructions to submit their manuscript:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/elastic_micro_struc…
3D Printing of Soft Materials
Qi (Kevin) Ge
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering
Sourthern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
1. Introduction
Dear iMechanicians,
Growth-induced deformation or morphoelasticity is an interesting phenomenon ranging from living tissues to biological plants in nature. We recently publish a paper in JMPS that solves some challenging boundary value problems by addressing few key issues in computational morphoelasticity. It might be interesting for you.
Dear Colleagues,
After one-year effort, we are happy to announce that the SI on Instability and Bifurcation in Materials and Structures is now completed and comes out online (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-non-linear-mechanics/special-issue/1089TRQ46GQ).
A quantitative phase-field model is developed for prediction of solute trapping for solidification velocities relevant to additive manufacturing. S. Kavousi and M. Asle Zaeem, Quantitative phase-field modeling of solute trapping in rapid solidification. Acta Materialia 205 (2021) 116562 (11 pages).
Esteemed Colleague,
as the Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (TAFMech, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-and-applied-fracture-mechanics/), this post is to invite you to attend the following free on-line global live webinars on Fracture Mechanics-related topics:
Þ Prof. David McDowell – Georgia Tech Institute for Materials, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Dear iMechanicians,
I hope that the following work is of interest to you. We combine the phase field method with cohesive zone modelling to predict the fracture behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites across scales.
Wei Tan & Emilio Martínez-Pañeda. Phase field predictions of microscopic fracture and R-curve behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites. Composites Science and Technology 202, 108539 (2021)
Heavy ion irradiation can be used to modify the atomic structure of a material and improve its dissolution characteristics as shown here. This has implication for the design of bioceramics
The morphology of MAX phase composites is examined here. Specifically, crack branching is examined in Al - Ti2AlC composites showing the role of MAX phase distribution on the fracture performance of such materials. Ductile alloy phases serve to deflect cracks in the hard, yet tough, MAX phase.
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