Nanobrücken 2016: A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop & Hysitron User Meeting will take place March 2nd - 4th, 2016 at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany. This will be the 6th edition of the now-annual Nanobrücken workshop series.
Below are references to some of our ongoing work that is published and is related to study the role of microcracking (in particular) and porosity to the thermo-mechanical response of functional ceramics. This study is relevant to understand the structural reliability of the systems such as the SOFC's (solid oxide fuel cells) and DPF's (diesel particulate filters).
I bought this reprint by the Ox Bow Press in 1990s. The quality of print is excellent. The book collects all papers of Gibbs on thermodynamics. I’ll focus on the three main papers: Paper I (pp. 1-32), Paper II (pp. 33-54), and Paper III (pp. 55-371). Papers I and II are short and fundamental. Paper III is very long; it applied the basic approach developed in the short papers to a large number of important phenomena. Over the years I have returned to the book many times, and will continue to do so in coming years. I'll keep updating this review.
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to submit an abstract to the thematic session "Industrial Applications of IGA and Meshfree Methods” at the USACM Conference on Isogeometric Analysis and Meshfree Methods taking place on October 10-12, 2016, in La Jolla, California, at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa.
The aim of our thematic session is to bring together researchers working in the industrial scale application of isogeometric and meshfree methods, to share recent advances, lessons learned, and to transfer knowledge between the two communities.
Real world challenges that face health care, transportation, space exploration, new product design and manufacture, and energy require interdisciplinary mechanical engineering approaches and perspectives.
I hope some of you may find this work interesting.
Fracture toughness characterization through notched small punch test specimens
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921509316300740
(A preprint version is available at www.empaneda.com)
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow research position at Johns Hopkins University, focused on the computational modeling and nonlinear mechanics of architected materials.
Applicants must hold a PhD in Mechanical/Civil Engineering or a related discipline, and should have demonstrated background in computational solid mechanics. Previous experience with cellular/porous materials is preferred. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and organizational talents are expected.
Dear guys,
I am investigating on “Paperboard Material” for my PhD thesis. As you maybe know paperboard is generally a composite with several layers and whole thickness of around 0.4 mm all.
For the real application this very thin laminated structure would be under both shear and compression forces, and it is also very noticeable that it has also a translating velocity (for example in X direction) around 400 [m/min] in the real production line. Therefore, a big delamination would be occurred on the interfaces of the plies.
The candidate will work with Prof. Hong Hao and Dr. Wensu Chen in the area of structural Engineering on an Australia Research Council (ARC) project.
Please refer to http://civil.eng.curtin.edu.au/people/index.cfm/Hong.Hao and http://civil.eng.curtin.edu.au/people/index.cfm/Wensu.Chen for more information about Prof. Hao and Dr. Chen's research work
