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Spider silk is an incredible material!
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Dear Colleagues,

We are still inviting submissions to our thematic session on ‘Multiphysics Problems’ at the 42^nd Solid Mechanics Conference (SOLMECH) combined with the 24^th Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics in Swinoujscie (Poland), September 5-8, 2022 http://cmm-solmech.ippt.pan.pl/index.html . Please see more details in the attached PDF.

Dear iMechanicians, I hope that you find the below work interesting. We have developed a phase field-based computational framework for predicting fatigue crack nucleation and growth in Shape Memory Alloys. The model captures the role of transformation stresses, stress-strain hysteresis, and temperature. And this is demonstrated by computing Δε − N curves, quantifying Paris law parameters, and predicting fatigue crack growth rates in several geometries, including the fatigue failure of a 3D lattice structure. 

Liquid Nanofoam: Past, Present and Future

Mingzhe Li and Weiyi Lu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University

1. Introduction

EMI 2022 Conference

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland – May 31- June 3

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At this time, we are planning for EMI 2022 to be a 100% in-person event.  

The motion of filament-like structures in fluid media has been a topic of interest since long. In this regard, a well known slender body theory exists wherein the fluid flow is assumed to be Stokesian while the filament is modeled as a Kirchhoff rod which can bend and twist but remains inextensible and unshearable. In this work, we relax the inextensibility and unshearability constraints on filaments, i.e., the filament is modeled as a special Cosserat rod.

Fully Funded Phd Position in Computational mechanics, fatigue and fracture in composite materials at Michigan Technological University

Dear colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the international symposium on "Biomechanics: Challenges of the Next Decade" in honor of Gerhard Holzapfel’s 60th birthday. With over 35 invited keynote lectures, the symposium will be held as a two-day in-person event from June 30th to July 1st, 2022 in Graz, Austria.

Invited speakers are announced here: www.isbio-2021.tugraz.at/#speakers

Exceptionally high saturation magnetisation in Eu-doped magnetite stabilised by spin–orbit interaction

Unusual ferrimagnetic ground state in rhenium ferrite

Abstract