Stretchable, Skin-Mountable, and Wearable Strain Sensors and Their Potential Applications: A Review
Published in Advanced Functional Materials as a Feature Article!
Plastic Behavior of Geometrically Nonlinear Shell
Hi All,
I would like to ask what would be a good benchmark test for evaluating the performance of plastic behavior of geometrically nonlinear shell?
Thank you in advance for you suggestions/comments.
Regards,
Mac
Updates to Online Resource on Rotations
The online resource on rotations, http://rotations.berkeley.edu, has been operational now for nearly 3 years.
My Top 10 Free 3D Model Databases
There are plenty of websites or repositories for 3D models. In practice I’ve often found myself searching through a lot of them when looking for a particular model. In my opinion, there isn’t a one stop shop solution. Instead, there are several really good websites that are worth to check out. In this post I’ll present my favorite 10 3D model databases divided into these four categories:
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CAD models: If you are a mechanical engineer and are looking for models to re-use in your own design, then these repositories are for you.
A perspective paper on flexoelectricity by Prof. Pradeep Sharma
A perspective paper on flexoelectricity by Professor Pradeep Sharma (University of Houston) is published in the March (2016) issue of the Journal of Applied Mechanics. A perspective paper describes an important, emerging field in mechanics. The first perspective paper, by Professor Huajian Gao (Brown University), has been downloaded more than 8000 times since its publication. This new paper by Professor Sharma is the 3rd perspective paper published in JAM. The paper is attached.
Orthogonality and closure relations in Stroh formalism
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I deal with exteded Stroh formalism for piezoelectric media. I have problems with orthogonalization of Stroh´s matrices A, B, respectively how to fulfil the ortogonality relations (see attachments). I tried to "rape" it and made the left matrix inverse of the right matrix (then the product is an unit matrix) and I became very similar singularity expomemt as in the paper
PhD positions: (1) mechanics of porous media, (2) mechanobiology deadline extended
Announcing extension of the deadline of application for the two positions that I posted here last week. The deadline is now extended by one week to 21st February 2016.
A few experimental studies on the dynamic behavior of foam-like aligned carbon nanotubes
I'm posting a few experimental studies we have conducted on the dynamic behavior of hierarchical fibrous materials, using vertically aligned carbon nanotubes as a model material. I hope these will be useful to those who are interested in buckle-instabilities, multiscale behavior, and energy absorption mechanisms.
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Special Volume of the International Journal of Fracture
As part of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the International Journal of Fracture, two special volumes were published in 2015. All articles of the 2nd 50th anniversary issue published in Nov/Dec 2015 are now freely accessible at the journal site until the 7th of April. These articles (and the ones published in the 1st 50th anniversary issue published in Jan/Feb 2015) provide reviews and perspectives on many aspects of fracture. You are welcome to browse thorough these articles and provide feedback on this blog!