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Elastomeric seals are essential to two great technological advances in oilfields: horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. This paper describes a method to study elastomeric seals by using the pressure-extrusion curve (i.e., the relation between the drop of pressure across a seal and the volume of extrusion of the elastomer). Emphasis is placed on a common mode of failure found in oilfields: leak caused by a crack across the length of a long seal. We obtain an analytical solution of large elastic deformation, which is analogous to the Poiseuille flow of vi
The Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is inviting applicants for a Tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of thermal-fluids to start in August 2017.
Post-wrinkle bifurcations in elastic bilayers with modest contrast in modulus
Anesia Auguste, Lihua Jin, Zhigang Suo, Ryan C. Hayward
Extreme Mechanics Letters
Dear Colleagues,
One proposes a new background of micromechanics (NBM) of composites. NBM offers opportunities for a fundamental jump in multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of random heterogeneous media with drastically improved accuracy of local field estimations. In so doing, a difference of linear effective properties estimated by the use of either the new background or the classical one (proposed in 1830-1880) is not significant. See the abstract attached describing a list of 40 papers and conference presentations dedicated to the NBM.
Abstract:
It is shown that a slip wave solution exists for anti-plane sliding of an elastic layer on an elastic half-space. It is a companion solution to the well-known Love wave solution.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw464
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01662
In Press, Geophysical Journal International, 2016
The Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science is pleased to announce the names of the 2017 Medalists and newly elected Fellows.
2017 SES Young Investigator Medals:
Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois) for “Seminal contributions to the understanding of cavitation phenomena in rubber and the elastic dielectric behavior of filled elastomers by means of novel iterative homogenization techniques as well development of effective constitutive model for hyperelastic materials.
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Applications are invited for an immediate postdoctoral associate opening in materials characterization at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Phiadelphia, PA. The project will focus on the mechanical property characterization of micro/nano-fibers and their woven structures for design of high energy absorption materials.
