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Call for Abstracts: Virtual Mach Conference

Submitted by Stavros Gaitanaros on

Please consider submitting an abstract to the Symposium Mechanics and Manufacturing of Architected Materials for the 2021 Virtual Mach Conference which will take place on April 7-9, 2021

The deadline for abstract submission is January 30.

Organizers: Stavros Gaitanaros (JHU), Jamie Guest (JHU), Jochen Mueller (JHU)

Prof. René de Borst’s TAFMech webinar scheduled for 29th of January has been cancelled!

Submitted by lsusmel on

Esteemed Colleagues,

this post is to inform you that, due to personal reasons, unfortunately, Prof. René de Borst will not be able to deliver his presentation this Friday. Accordingly, the webinar scheduled for Friday 29/01 has been cancelled.

 

We look forward to welcoming you all to the next TAFMech webinar:

 

Prof. Reinhard Pippan

 

Title of seminar: Crack closure: frequently asked questions

 

Date/time: 5 February 2021 at 9 am (GMT)

On the origin of supercontraction in spider silk

Submitted by noyco on

Spider silk is a protein material that exhibits extraordinary and nontrivial properties such as the ability to soften and decrease its length by up to ∼60% upon exposure to high humidity. This counter-intuitive process is commonly called supercontraction and is the result of a transition from a highly oriented glassy phase to a disoriented rubbery phase. In our new paper (published in biomacromolecules) we derive a model that explains the origins of the supercontraction phenomena. The insights from this work motivate the development of novel biomimetic materials.

Review article on elastic instabilities, microstructure transformations, and pattern formations in soft materials

Submitted by Nitesh Arora on

Dear Colleagues,

We recently published a review article on "Elastic instabilities, microstructure transformations, and pattern formations in soft materials" in Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science.

Read here: Elastic instabilities, microstructure transformations, and pattern formations in soft materials - ScienceDirect

In the paper, we have reviewed the state of the art in:

Entropy Based Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring

Submitted by Cemal Basaran on

If you are interested in the most recent advances in physics-based Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction, and Structural Health Monitoring
You may find this publication helpful.

free download site https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3299