Dear Colleagues,
Here is the link to a recently published paper in Acta Materialia titled, "Influence of thermomechanical loads on the energetics of precipitation in magnesium aluminum alloys".
Authors: Swarnava Ghosh and Kaushik Bhattacharya
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.03.007
Sincerely,
Swarnava
Designing complex architectured materials with generative adversarial networks
Yunwei Mao, Qi He, Xuanhe Zhao
Shear testing produces shear property data for material specifications, research and development, quality assurance, and structural design and analysis. Shear properties can be calculated via different test types including tension, flexion, and compression as well as different test set ups such as the lap shear method, V-notched rail method, short beam method, and more. Click here for the original blog post.
Sheet metal forming operations consist of simple bending, to stretching to deep drawing of complex parts. The mechanical properties of the sheet material greatly influence its formability, which is a measure of the amount of deformation the material can withstand prior to fracture. This blog post covers important definitions determining sheet metal characteristics, the test methods, and the equipment used to quantify them.
The microelectronics revolution is one of the most influential drivers of current industrial developments. To probe the mechanical properties of ever shrinking materials and components, nanoindentation has come to be an omnipresent and indispensable method. In a recent combined experimental and computational approach, an international team of scientists was for the first time able to resolve the dynamic atomistic processes taking place at the elastic-plastic transition during nanoindentation.
2 PhD positions avaliable at the University of Porto in the framework of the European Training Network (ETN) New strategies for multifield fracture problems across scales in heterogeneous systems for Energy, Health and Transport – “NEWFRAC”. The details are available in the following links:
http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=124159
Dear all,
An update on the http://www.legato-team.eu at work in the COVID19 response in Luxembourg.
Check out http://www.ariana-tech.com a joint venture between Kyoto and Luxembourg.
PhD positions on Systems Science with specialization in computational mechanics are available at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Tuscany, Italy), see the following previous posts on imechanica:
- A call for 1 PhD position in the framework of the H2020 Marie Curie Project NewFrac (deadline: 30 June 2020): https://imechanica.org/node/24161
We study the nature of an environment-induced exceptional point in a non-Hermitian pair of coupled mechanical oscillators. The mechanical oscillators are a pair of pillars carved out of a single isotropic elastodynamic medium made of aluminum and consist of carefully controlled differential losses. The interoscillator coupling originates exclusively from background modes associated with the “environment,” that portion of the structure which, if perfectly rigid, would support the oscillators without coupling.
