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Notched micro-cantilever beam fracture (MCF) experiments are increasingly being used to measure fracture toughness of materials at the micro-scale and draw conclusions about size-effects in them. In our recent paper published in Acta Materialia, 'Size effects and failure regimes in notched micro-cantilever beam fracture', we elucidate the failure regimes in MCF experiments and discuss the conditions for validity of MCF tests.

Colleagues: Please consider submitting an abstract to the symposium, "Thin Films and Multilayers: From Microstructure to Device Characteristics" to take place in Porto, Portugal, 2-7 July, 2023. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Topical areas: 

• Film thickness and microstructure effects on elasticity, plasticity, fracture and fatigue as well as electrical and dielectric properties

• Strain/light/magnetic field engineering of sensors, electronics

• Mechanics of multi-layered systems (from thermal barrier coating to microelectronics)

Dear all,

we are trying to convert SEM graphs with good resolutions to CAD Files (in any possible formats, IGES, DXF, STEP ...) to mesh for a commercial FEM software. Which software can be used for this task? 

Thank you,

Atilim

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a background in developing continuum models for large-scale deformations. Furthermore, experience in modeling multi-physics systems (e.g., chemo-mechanical coupling, magneto-mechanical coupling) would be a great plus. Please email me (renukaba [at] usc.edu) with your CV and a 3-line statement on your past (and relevant) research experience. 

At Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa, Italy, there are 2 PhD scholarships funded by my ERC Starting Grant ALPS - AI-based Learning for Physical Simulation. In this project, which will start next September, we aim to build algorithms that can learn physical models starting from experimental data.