Mechanical Response of Two Dimensional Polymer Networks: Role of Topology, Rate Dependence, and Damage Accumulation

Date / Time: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 / 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: Nuremberg, Germany

Fee: Free-to-attend. Pre-registration is required as places are limited 

Dear Colleagues,

Here is our recent paper “Fatigue Fracture of Self-Recovery Hydrogels”. To the hydrogel community, this paper distinguishes the fatigue fracture and the self-recovery of a hydrogel. To the mechanics community, we show that, for the first time in hydrogels, the fatigue threshold depends only on the covalent network, but not on the noncovalent interactions that provide dissipation.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00045?journalCode=a…

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M.Ciavarella, P.D’Antuono, A.Papangelo

Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy. mciava [at] poliba.it

Abstract

Congratulations to Prof. M. Ciavarella for having been nominated a new member of the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (IJMS) Editorial Board! IJMS is a well-established Journal published by Elsevier. With its Impact Factor being 2.884 in 2016, IJMS ranks No. 15 among 133 journals in the field of Mechanics! 

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-mechanical-s…

Congratulations!

Antonio

In introducing the very concept of the stress tensor to the beginning student, text-books always present only indirect relations involving the concept. Thus, you have the relations like "traction = (stress-transposed)(unit normal)" (i.e. Cauchy's formula, for uniform stress), or the relations for the coordinate transformations of the stress tensor, or the divergence theorem (for non-uniform stress). These are immediately followed or interspersed with alternative notations, and the rules for using them.

But what you never ever get to see, in text-books or references, is this: a *direct* definition of the stress tensor, i.e. an equation in which there is only the stress tensor on the left hand-side, and some expression involving some *other* quantities on right hand-side. Why? What possibly could be the conceptual and pedagogical advantages of giving a direct definition of this kind, and its physical meaning? I would like to ponder on these matters here, giving my answers to these and similar questions in the process.

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