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Extremely Curved Cracks

Submitted by Ettore Barbieri on

 

The word "extreme" seems to be "trending" a lot these days, see the recent discussions on the new journal Extreme Mechanics Letters.

My collaborator Ruben Sevilla at Swansea and I were interested in very curved crack paths that develop in nature and have been replicated experimentally in thin films attached to elastic substrates.

Journal Club Theme of September 2014: Numerical modeling of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes in porous media

Submitted by WaiChing Sun on

Thermo-hydro-mechanics (THM) is a branch of mechanics aimed to predict how deformable porous media behave, while heat transfer and fluid transport simultaneously occur in the pores filled by liquid and/or gas. Understanding these multi-physical responses is important for a wide spectrum of modern engineering applications, such as tissue scaffolding, geothermal heating, mineral exploration and mining, hydraulic fracture, energy piles, tunneling with frozen soil and nuclear waste storage and management.

Determination of the elastic properties of rabbit vocal fold tissue using uniaxial tensile testing and a tailored finite element model

Submitted by Neda Latifi on

http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1PcEa6EHNeGWdB

Highlights:

Uniaxial tensile testing of rabbit vocal fold tissue.
Investigating the role of specimen shape on tensile testing of vocal fold tissue.
Development of a shape-specific finite element model to estimate elastic modulus.
Comparison of elastic moduli from shape-specific and generic-shape models.

Post doc/RA position on Metallic Micolattices at UNSW, Canberra, Australia

Submitted by MGRashed on

There is a Post doc/RA position related to Metallic Micolattices and their energy absorption applications.

 

The job circular is here - http://www.seek.com.au/job/27123328

 

Position description - http://hr.unsw.adfa.edu.au/d_files/RASEIT(SE)PD.pdf

 

Advances in Research on Thermo-Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Coupling Problem for Intelligent Soft Materials——the latest article published on Advances in Mechanics

Submitted by CSTAM_Journal on

Journal Tittle: Advances in Mechanics

Article Tittle: Advances in Research on Thermo-Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Coupling Problem for Intelligent Soft Materials

Author: Yang Qingsheng, Wei Wei, Ma Lianhua

Abstract:

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2014 is online now!

Submitted by CSTAM_Journal on

Dear everyone,

The fourth issue in 2014 (Volume 4, Issue 4) of Theoretical and Applied Mehcanic Letters (TAML) is now online.

Welcome to this young journal http://taml.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results. 

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