I am delighted to inform the mechanics community that the 2020-2021 recipient of the highly prestigious is our distinguished colleague James R. Rice, as follows
The 2020-2021 Harvey Prize Award is granted to Professor James R. Rice for fundamental and long-standing contributions to the fields of mechanics of materials and geophysics. For the J-integral, and for leadership that enhanced the understanding of friction and earthquakes.
A fun experiment: measuring the load needed to detach a grape from its bunch.
Check it out at: https://youtu.be/j5ymzspRRRM
This paper, in press in Acta Biomaterialia presents a simplifiwed model based on a micro to macro description of the bone-implant interface, and the evolution of its stiffnmess at the local and the global scales as healing progresses. The paper is temporarily available at:
Prospective authors are welcome to submit!
When studying impacts, including hypervelocity, one tends to put aside the fact that both the target and the impacter are moving....assuming that the target stands still. We call that situation a "glancing impact" and study it in the attached.
A very simple question albeit seldom if not addressed in the literature. Not all impacts were born equal. Follow up on R-gate or soon in J. Dynamic Behavior of Materials.
happy to inform the community that we have launched my new website:
rittel.net.technion.ac.il
All welcome to visit and give a feedback!
Daniel
A beautiful movie (courtesy of Bat Hen Varfman) showing the evolution of bubbles from generation to collapse in a shocked MC hydrogel.
