Conference Website: http://acmfms2016.shu.edu.cn/

Conference Chair: Tong-Yi Zhang (Shanghai University)

About the conference

Zheng Jia, Teng Li, Failure Mechanics of a Wrinkling Thin Film Anode on a Substrate under Cyclic Charging and Discharging, Extreme Mechanics Letters, accepted, 2016 (DOI:doi:10.1016/j.eml.2016.03.006)

Please see the attached paper (the pdf file) for complete details. 

 In a paper to appear and available online,( An analytical approach to model the hysteretic bending behavior of spiral strands, Applied Mathematical Modeling 2016, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0307904X16300592 )

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Here is the abstract:

B. Tavakol and D.P. Holmes, Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 112901, (2016).

ASCE announced the winners of six of its prestigious Society awards administered by its Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI):

2016 Maurice A. Biot Medal: Ronaldo I. Borja, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, Stanford University

2016 Jack E. Cermak Medal: Qiusheng Li, Ph.D., City University of Hong Kong

2016 Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal: Bruce R. Ellingwood, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, Georgia Institute of Technology

In the present work, we study morphologies arising due to competing substrate interaction, electric field, and confinement effects on a symmetric diblock copolymer. We employ a coarse-grained nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard phenomenological model taking into account the appropriate contributions of substrate interaction and electrostatic field. The proposed model couples the Ohta-Kawasaki functional with Maxwell equation of electrostatics, thus alleviating the need for any approximate solution used in previous studies.

W. Gregory Sawyer, University of Florida, USA will be the Plenary Speaker at ICoBT2016

Keynote Speakers include:
Dan Bader, University of Southampton, UK
David L. Burris, University of Delaware, USA
Simon Johnson, Unilever, UK
Mark Rainforth, University of Sheffield, UK
Feng Zhou, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, China

The post is funded through a recently awarded four year European H2020 research project SINTBAT (Silicon based materials and new processing technologies for improved lithium-ion batteries), and coordinated by VARTA.