The 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics (http://biot2017.sciencesconf.org/ ) will be held just outside of Paris, France, at École des Ponts ParisTech and IFSTTAR, from July 9 to July 13, 2017. The Biot conference is organized only once every 4 years and is the main international event for experts in poromechanics. All topics related to porous solids that deform and contain one or several pore
Date: Monday, June 27, 2016
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: AMP Technology Centre, Advanced Manufacturing Park, Brunel Way, Rotherham, UK
Who should attend
EMI, the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, is pleased to announce the EMI 2017 Conference which will be held on June 4-7, 2017 in San Diego, California. It will be chaired by Prof. J.S. Chen and Prof. Yuri Bazilevs, both of the University of California San Diego.
We are organizing the symposium on "Computational Thermodynamics and kinetics" at the next TMS meeting to be held in San Diego from February 26- March 2, 2017.
Topics of choice for this year include, but are not limited to:
Advancements in computational techniques in thermodynamics and kinetics of defects, phase transformations, and microstructural evolution.
Call for Papers
Special Issue "Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer in Biological Systems and Clinical/Medical Applications" in Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521)
This book is an outgrowth of lecture notes of a graduate course on mechanics of soft materials that I teach since 2009. The interest in mechanics of soft materials is triggered by the development of new engineering and biomedical technologies. Mechanical behavior of soft materials is strongly nonlinear from both physical (constitutive equations) and geometrical (large deformations) standpoints and the standard texts on mechanics of materials are not enough in this case. The nonlinearities make the subject challenging yet rich and exciting.
A nice demonstration of toughening by introducing multiple secondary cracking of planes parallel with the primary crack is found in the paper:
Advanced energy materials hold one of the keys to fundamental advances in the conversion, storage, and harvesting of energy for a broad range of consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. The successful development and deployment of these materials relies critically on a fundamental understanding of strongly coupled multiphysics phenomena. Mechanics of energy materials has emerged as a rapidly growing area of research that has significant technological implications in improving the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of energy infrastructure.
Please share this with any interested parties. Thank you - Rob Carpick
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