Dexin Zhao , Kelvin Xie 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.

Abstract

The full video of a recent symposium organized by the Young Academy of Europe on Covid-19 epidemiology is now online on YouTube, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy1qVBs6fHI

Virtual testing is an established methodology in computational mechanics to accelerate the design of new materials and components. Nonetheless, there is plenty of room to transfer such methods in R&D departments of SMEs.

Recently, digital twin models come into play, and they are opening even more perspectives to incorporate computational mechanics and optimization towards the realization of digital models of real production lines. 

A recent demonstrator of those technologies has been recently realized in Italy, see: 

EML Webinar on May 6, 2020 will be given by Prof. Xuanhe Zhao at MIT via Zoom meeting. 

Title: Extreme Mechanics of Soft Materials for Merging Human-Machine Intelligence

Time: 7 am California, 10 am Boston, 3 pm London, 10 pm Beijing on May 6, 2020

Zoom Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 

Zoom ID: 271 079 684

2020 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation (ICMRA 2020: http://www.icmra.org/ ) will take place at Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), China during Oct.16-18. All full papers accepted by ICMRA 2020 will be published into the Conference Proceedings and indexed by Ei Compendex & SCOPUS.

The detailed information can be found at the attached CONFERENCE FLYER.

Please make a link in the comment section if you find other video lectures related to mechanics.

This course presents an introduction to mechanics, instructed by Prof. Wei YANG at Zhejiang University, a leading scientist in solid mechanics. Mechanics is the science concerning force, motion, and deformation, studying the macroscopic and microscopic mechanical behaviors of complex matters in nature and engineering.

Yonggang Huang, a professor in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, has been elected to the 2020 class of National Academy of Science (NAS) members. 

Prof. Huang is one of 120 new members and 26 foreign members elected in this year’s class. NAS Members are chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research 

My group in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University has multiple fully funded PhD positions, starting Spring/Fall 2021. Successful candidates will be working in the broad area of mechanics and/or materials, including but not limited to biomimetic and biological materials, soft active materials, soft robotics, multiphysics characterization, design, and functionalization. Research will be focused on the combination of theory and experiment.

Self-excited vibrations represent a big concern in engineering, particularly in automotive, railway and aeronautic industry. Many lumped models have been proposed over the years to analyze the stability of such systems. Among the instability mechanisms a falling characteristic of the friction law and mode coupling have been shown to give friction-excited oscillations. The mass-on-moving-belt system has been studied extensively in Literature, very often adopting a prescribed form of the friction law and linearizing the contact stiffness.