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In this review of particularly readworthy papers in EFM, I have selected a paper about the tearing of large ductile plates, namely:

”Cohesive zone modeling and calibration for mode I tearing of large ductile plates”  by P.B. Woelke, M.D. Shields, J.W. Hutchinson, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 147 (2015) 293-305.

Deformation Mechanics of Granular Materials:

Local deformation of Polymer-bonded sugar at high strain rate loading

 Addis Kidane, Suraj Ravindran

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina, 300 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208

Introduction

EUROMECH Conference: MULTI-UNCERTAINTY AND MULTI-SCALE METHODS AND RELATED APPLICATIONS

13 September – 16 September 2016, Portugal

http://584.euromech.org/

The conference aims to:

(a) present the state-of-the-art in this field by showing the most recent developments by leading experts, and

Thanks to the efforts of the associate editors and reviewers, JAM continues to publish very fast.  Among ~800 submissions in 2015, there are only 19 papers that are still under review as of February 1, 2016.  In addition, the acceptance rate continues to decline, to ~16% in 2015. 

 Nanobrücken 2016: A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop & Hysitron User Meeting will take place March 2nd - 4th, 2016 at the INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken, Germany. This will be the 6th edition of the now-annual Nanobrücken workshop series. 

Below are references to some of our ongoing work that is published and is related to study the role of microcracking (in particular) and porosity to the thermo-mechanical response of functional ceramics. This study is  relevant to understand the structural reliability of the systems such as the SOFC's (solid oxide fuel cells) and DPF's (diesel particulate filters).

I bought this reprint by the Ox Bow Press in 1990s.  The quality of print is excellent. The book collects all papers of Gibbs on thermodynamics. I’ll focus on the three main papers:  Paper I (pp. 1-32), Paper II (pp. 33-54), and Paper III (pp. 55-371).  Papers I and II are short and fundamental.  Paper III is very long; it applied the basic approach developed in the short papers to a large number of important phenomena.  Over the years I have returned to the book many times, and will continue to do so in coming years. I'll keep updating this review.

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to submit an abstract to the thematic session "Industrial Applications of IGA and Meshfree Methods” at the USACM Conference on Isogeometric Analysis and Meshfree Methods taking place on October 10-12, 2016, in La Jolla, California, at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel and Spa.

The aim of our thematic session is to bring together researchers working in the industrial scale application of isogeometric and meshfree methods, to share recent advances, lessons learned, and to transfer knowledge between the two communities.