Blog posts

We have published a paper called "Micromechanical model for prediction of the fatigue limit for unidirectional fibre composites" in Mechanics of Materials. See the link here.

Two PhD positions are available at the University of Southampton (jointly with an industrial partner in Denmark). Both poisitions are in the broad area of structural vibration.

(1) Analytical and computational structural dynamics and vibration (in the context of elastic and acoustic metamaterial, especially those fabricated using additive manufacturing):

https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1037118AK-R

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I hope some of you will find our recent paper in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids interesting. The Abaqus user element (UEL) subroutine developed to implement strain gradient plasticity theories with energetic and dissipative higher order stresses (Gudmundson 2004, Fleck and Willis 2009) can be downloaded from www.empaneda.com/codes

The role of plastic strain gradients in the crack growth resistance of metals

Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, Vikram S. Deshpande, Christian F. Niordson, Norman A. Fleck

Published in Phys. Rev. B: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.184305

Published in Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15567265.2019.1576816

Wenjie Xia, Xin Qin, Yao Zhang, Rober Sinko, Sinan Keten

Macromolecules (2018), https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02243

Wenjie Xia, Fernando Vargas-Lara, Sinan Keten, Jack F. Douglas

ACS Nano (2018), https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.8b00524

2019/20 PhD programs at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy

Deadline for applications – April 23rd, 2019, 12 pm CEST

Online application form: https://www.imtlucca.it/en/programma-dottorato/ammissione/procedure