A comprehensive thermo-mechanical experimental study and subsequent constitutive modelling will facilitate in designing and simulating more complex cellular metamaterials using 3D printed silicones
We have discovered two timescales that govern the dynamic behavior of electrohydraulic actuators: a viscous timescale and an inertial timescale, which depend on geometry and materials system of the actuator, and applied mechanical load and voltage. Depending on the ratio of these timescales, the actuators operate either in a viscous regime in which viscous resistance limits the actuation speed or in an inertial regime in which high speed actuation is possible.
The USACM is happy to announce a virtual seminar this week on Wednesday, July 1st at 3pm Eastern. The title of the seminar is "Examining Fracture Behavior in Heterogeneous Poro-Elastic Media from Nano to Macro-Scale". An abstract of the talk is available here:
https://unsacm.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Newell_2020.07.01_2pm.pdf
We have a number of seats available to anyone interested. We just ask attendees to register at this page:
Based on the newly released 2019 Journal Citation Report, Extreme Mechanics Letters received an impact factor of 4.806, in line with its 2019 CiteScore, exemplifying the steadily increasing impact of the journal and its top r
Fatigue-resistant hydrogels: Principles, Experiments, and Applications
Shaoting Lin, Xuanhe Zhao
1. Introduction
Here are the elasticity notes of Eli Sternberg over many years as he taught AM 135 at Caltech. I had access to them when I was working with Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya at Caltech during postdoc. Prof. Bhattacharya suggested making the notes publicly available via iMechanica, and below is a short note from him.
Layered nanocomposites by shear-flow-induced alignment of nanosheets, Chuangqi Zhao, Lei Jiang, Mingjie Liu, Nature, 2020
Novelty/impact/significance:
A generalizable and scalable, continuous fabrication of ultrastrong composite films (with nanosheets of graphene oxide and clay, strength 1215 MPa modulus 198.8 GPa,, and ultrastrong and ultratough composites (with nanosheets of clay, toughness 36.7 MJ/m2 strength 1195 MPa) based on a superspreading layering strategy.
Scientific question:
Willing to share the work done in my Ph.D. thesis ("An efficient numerical framework for capturing localised 3D stress fields in laminated composites). The basic code (written in FORTRAN 90) is available on GITHUB (Check the following link).
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