We are glad to announce the International Symposium Recent Advances in Mechanics of Solids and Structures in honour of Prof. Davide Bigoni's 60th birthday.
The event will be held in Trento on June 6-7, 2019.
Tensile testing is among the most standard tests performed by universal testing machines yet depending on how the test specimen is used in its native environment, setting up the tensile test method is not always straightforward. Wide width tensile testing is a type of tensile testing procedure used with specimens that are prepared with wider width than the standard tensile specimen coupons. This blog posts covers wide width tensile testing, standards outlining wide width testing methods, and the necessary equipment.
Journal Applied Sciences
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Dear Colleagues,
The University of Tulsa Department of Mechanical Engineering is searching for a postdoctoral researcher to support our recently awarded a U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology project to develop novel a CSP Collector system https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/seto-fy2018-concentrating-solar-therm… TU and collaborators will develop a new carbon-based receiver system with a bio-inspired microvascular architecture.
Enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral scientists are sought to work with Dr. Kun Zhou at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on the following areas:
1. Metal printing and process modeling (DED or SLM printing)
2. Polymer printing (polymer synthesis, modification and MJF/SLS printing)
We have an open PhD position starting in the Spring or Fall semester 2020 at the Computational Laboratory for the Mechanics of Interfaces at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. A high quality PhD student is sought to study failure of structural materials under fatigue by developing a novel computational approach that explicitly targets traction equilibrium and displacement compatibility along the grain boundaries.
W. Xia et al., Science Advances (2019), https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaav4683?utm_source=TrendMD…
How does geometric non linearity handled in Explicit Simulations ?
Dear Colleague,
I write to bring your attention to a recent paper describing the use of a planar version of Bergou et al.'s discrete elastic rod theory to model and simulate a prototype caterpillar-inspired soft robot. The paper just appeared in Soft Robotics:
