Excited to announce that Anthony Lau and I are editing a special issue for Bioengineering (ISSN 2306-5354)- Pubmed Indexed - Quantification of Biological and Mechanical Changes Due to Radiation Exposure. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2021.
Link : https://www.mdpi.com/journal/bioengineering/special_issues/radiat_expos…
Special Issue Editors
3D Printing of Batteries: Fabrication, Materials and Challenges
Yaokun Pang, Changyong Cao*
Laboratory for Soft Machines & Electronics, Michigan State University
1. Introduction
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) is looking for highly competitive and enthusiastic applicants for our Master’s and Ph.D. programs, with a starting date of Fall 2021. The department is active in both classical end emerging areas of research in mechanical engineering. For more details about research activities, faculty profiles and graduate education, please visit: me.ucmerced.edu.
The paper "Estimating static/dynamic strength of notched unreinforced concrete under mixed-mode I/II loading" by N. Alanazi and L. Susmel in Engineering Fracture Mechanics 240 (2020) 107329, pp. 1-18, is a readworthy and very interesting paper. Extensive fracture mechanical testing of concrete is throughly described in the paper. The tests are performed for different fracture mode mixities applied to test specimens with different notch root radii at various elevated loading rates.
I would like to share another article from my group just published in CMAME. I think this is an interesting approach towards the automatic generation of constitutive laws for arbitrary microstructures:
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bxlSAQEIt1ls
The article focuses on how to systematically create constitutive laws using only:
1) Available microstructural models
2) Machine learning techniques
A beautiful movie (courtesy of Bat Hen Varfman) showing the evolution of bubbles from generation to collapse in a shocked MC hydrogel.
The use of 3D printed metal structures is taking a very fast ramp-up in industry. General Electric has demonstrated the possibility of printing titanium fuel injectors for their LEAP engine, EADS has printed a nacelle hinge bracket for the Airbus A320, Boeing is printing plastic inlet ducts for high-altitude aircrafts, hip implants and other prosthetics are exploiting the design freedom of additive manufacturing (AM),...
