Self-shaping of curved structures, especially those involving flexible thin layers, is attracting increasing attention because of their broad potential applications in, e.g., nanoelectromechanical andmicroelectromechanical systems, sensors, artificial skins, stretchable electronics, robotics, and drug delivery.
The 21st International Conference on Wear of Materials will take place in California, USA from the 26-30 March 2017.
In this review of particularly readworthy papers in EFM, I have selected a paper about the tearing of large ductile plates, namely:
Deformation Mechanics of Granular Materials:
Local deformation of Polymer-bonded sugar at high strain rate loading
Addis Kidane, Suraj Ravindran
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 300 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208
Introduction
EUROMECH Conference: MULTI-UNCERTAINTY AND MULTI-SCALE METHODS AND RELATED APPLICATIONS
13 September – 16 September 2016, Portugal
The conference aims to:
(a) present the state-of-the-art in this field by showing the most recent developments by leading experts, and
We are trying to find out the work conjugate strain (and wryness) measures to T and M (stess and couple stress) and we know that in classical theory the conjugate strain measure is identified using the stress power, which appears in the power balance equation derived taking the inner product of the equation of motion with velocity. Please refer to the attached pdf for details.
1. Given the equations of motion of Cosserat media (Eq 1 and 2 in attached pdf) how do we extend the procedure of calculating the stress power for Cosserat media?
Thanks to the efforts of the associate editors and reviewers, JAM continues to publish very fast. Among ~800 submissions in 2015, there are only 19 papers that are still under review as of February 1, 2016. In addition, the acceptance rate continues to decline, to ~16% in 2015.
Nanobrücken 2016: A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop & Hysitron User Meeting will take place March 2nd - 4th, 2016 at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany. This will be the 6th edition of the now-annual Nanobrücken workshop series.
Below are references to some of our ongoing work that is published and is related to study the role of microcracking (in particular) and porosity to the thermo-mechanical response of functional ceramics. This study is relevant to understand the structural reliability of the systems such as the SOFC's (solid oxide fuel cells) and DPF's (diesel particulate filters).
I bought this reprint by the Ox Bow Press in 1990s. The quality of print is excellent. The book collects all papers of Gibbs on thermodynamics. I’ll focus on the three main papers: Paper I (pp. 1-32), Paper II (pp. 33-54), and Paper III (pp. 55-371). Papers I and II are short and fundamental. Paper III is very long; it applied the basic approach developed in the short papers to a large number of important phenomena. Over the years I have returned to the book many times, and will continue to do so in coming years. I'll keep updating this review.
