Blog posts

On the mechanics of mother of pearl: A key feature in the material hierarchical structure, Barthelat, Tang, Zavattieri, Li, Espinosa, JMPS, 2007

Novelty/impact/significance:

The upside-down water collection system of Syntrichia caninervis, Pan, Pitt, Zhang, Wu, Tao and Truscott, Nature Plants, 2016

Novelty/impact/significance:

It is unveiled that the Syntrichia caninervis (S. caninervis), a most abundant desert moss, collects and transports water by coupling relevant nano- and microscale physical structures with multiscale sources of water (nanoscale nucleation, microscale fog droplet, larger droplets on awn).

Crack engineering for the construction of arbitrary hierarchical architectures, Li, Yu, etc., Wang, Ren, PNAS, 2019

Novelty/impact/significance:

A conventionally detrimental phenomenon, cracking (leads to material failure), is used as a beneficial aspect to develop a powerful replication technique (two curing stages for the elastomer mold) to construct bioinspired complex hierarchical structures for interesting functions and properties, ingenious and effective.

Prof. Vijay Chalivendra is looking for a student who is interested to pursue doctoral studies in his research lab at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, starting fall 2021. The applicant should have either completed Master's degree or is planning to graduate in May 2021 with Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering. The preference will be given for a student who has research experience in experimental solid mechanics and published one or two peer-reviewed journal articles.

Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the 2nd International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials, which will take place online organized from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey on 18-20 August 2021.

A droplet-based electricity generator with high instantaneous power density, Xu, Zheng, etc., Wang, Zeng, Wang, Nature, 2020

Novelty/impact/significance:

A novel water droplet-based electricity generator with significantly high instantaneous power density, several orders of magnitude higher over conventional equivalent ones, is developed. A new operating mechanism through the ingenious device design is presented.

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium on Multiscale Machine Learning for Geotechnical and Geophysics and Geomechanics Applications: from Grain- to Field-scales at the MMLDT-CSET 2021 conference, September 26-29:

Mechanistic Machine Learning and Digital Twins for Computational Science, Engineering & Technology (MMLDT-CSET 2021)
An IACM Conference September 26-29, 2021 - Hyatt Regency Mission Bay, San Diego, USA
(website: https://mmldt.eng.ucsd.edu/)

Details:

Full description & contact: see attached document
University & laboratory: University of Lyon, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS), Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat (ENTPE), Géomatériaux et Constructions Durables (GCD).
Location: Lyon, France
Period: 4-year China Scholarship Council scholarship application

Context:

cdmHUB invites you to attend the Global Composites Experts Webinar Series. 

Title: Advances in Polymer Composites’ Tribology

Speaker: Dr.  Klaus Friedrich

Time: 3/4, 11AM-12PM EST.

Please go to https://www.purdue.edu/cmsc/events/2020-webinars/ to register for this webinar.

2 MSc positions are available in the Shock Physic and Chemistry Lab (https://shock.bit.edu.cn/Home/index.htm) in Beijing Institute of Technology. The research topic is in the area of mechanics of biomaterials. Theoretical and computational modeling along with 3D printing and experimental characterization will be conducted for a better understanding of the mechanical behavior of bioceramics. The candidates will work under the supervision of Dr. Xie Jing and Dr. Ali Arab.