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NONLINEAR VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES BASED ON THE NONLOCAL SHELL ELACTICITY THEORY

Submitted by Payam Soltani on Mon, 06/15/2015 - 08:17

Carbon nanotubes; nonlinear vibration; nonlinear dynamics

NONLINEAR VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES BASED ON THE NONLOCAL SHELL ELACTICITY THEORY

By Payam SOLTANI, Javad SABERIAN, Roja BAHRAMIAN

Abstract:

Flexibility and protection by design: imbricated hybrid microstructures of bio-inspired armor

Submitted by Stephan Rudykh on Sun, 06/14/2015 - 08:03

bio-inspired materials

Stephan Rudykh, Christine Ortiz, and Mary C. Boyce. Soft Matter, 2015, 11, 2547-2554

JAM Special Issue on New Frontiers in the Mechanics of Materials

Submitted by benzerga on Sat, 06/13/2015 - 16:21

Crystal plasticity

discrete dislocations

computatinal solid mechanics

A meeting was held in Paris last summer on the occasion of Prof. Alan Needleman’s 70th birthday

http://engineering.tamu.edu/aerospace/news/needleman-symposium/overview

The corresponding special issue in the Journal of Applied Mechanics is now online

Short Course: Advanced Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Submitted by Lee Margetts on Fri, 06/12/2015 - 13:36

Advanced Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics

7-10 September 2015

Continuing Professional Development Course

University of Manchester and STFC Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom

A quasistatic implementation of the concurrent atomistic-continuum method for FCC crystals

Submitted by Shuozhi Xu on Fri, 06/12/2015 - 13:03

Concurrent atomistic-continuum method; quasistatic; dislocation nucleation and migration; FCC metal plasticity

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2015.05.007

Abstract

Atomic collision cascades on void evolution in vanadium

Submitted by Shuozhi Xu on Fri, 06/12/2015 - 12:58

collision cascades; void evolution; softening to hardening transition; single crystalline vanadium; molecular dynamics

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2011.613393

Abstract

An analysis on nanovoid growth in body-centered cubic single crystalline vanadium

Submitted by Shuozhi Xu on Fri, 06/12/2015 - 12:55

dislocation nucleation; nanovoid; molecular dynamics;

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2011.03.019

Abstract

SES Board of Directors---Call for nominations

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 13:41

Society of Engineering Science

Dear iMechanica Community,

Measuring surface dislocation nucleation in defect-scarce nanostructures

Submitted by paul.jh.shin on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 13:34

Introducing newly published article on surface dislocation nucleation. (http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4288.html)

Position: Research Fellow/ Senior Research Fellow, National Heart Research Institute Singapore

Submitted by Renick Lee on Tue, 06/09/2015 - 01:25

We are looking for a dynamic and motivated new staff with interest in Cardiovascular Research and Medical Technology to join us. The position is based at the National Heart Research Institute Singapore, the research unit of the National Heart Centre Singapore (Outram Park). The National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) is the largest centre for treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Singapore with over 100,000 cardiovascular outpatient visits and over 3000 operations every year.