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Fast-Response, Stiffness-Tunable Soft Actuator by Hybrid Multimaterial 3D Printing

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Fast‐Response, Stiffness‐Tunable Soft Actuator by Hybrid Multimaterial 3D Printing

Yuan-Fang Zhang, Ningbin Zhang, Hardik Hingorani, Ningyuan Ding, Dong Wang, Chao Yuan, Biao Zhang, Guoying Gu,* and Qi Ge*

Steady-state fracture toughness of elastic-plastic solids: Isotropic versus kinematic hardening

Submitted by Emilio Martíne… on

I hope some of you may find this work interesting. We show that kinematic hardening effects play a significant role in monotonic/static fracture.

Steady-state fracture toughness of elastic-plastic solids: Isotropic versus kinematic hardening

K.J.Juul, E.Martínez-Pañeda, K.L.Nielsen, C.F.Niordson

Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 207, pp. 254-268 (2019)

Volume 207, 15 February 2019, Pages 254-268

Fully Funded Ph.D. Position

Submitted by K.Kanistras on

January 18th 2018

 

A fully-funded Ph.D. position is available in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a starting date of August 2019. The focus of the project is on flow separation control. Our research integrates wind tunnel testing and advanced experimental fluid dynamic techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV) to investigate the flow structures and apply more effectively flow control techniques for aerospace and wind energy applications.

 

Nonlinear elasticity of incompatible surface growth

Submitted by peppezurlo on

In this manuscript with Lev Truskinovsky, we developed a new nonlinear theory of large-strain incompatible surface growth. Surface growth is a crucial component of many natural and artificial processes from cell proliferation to additive manufacturing. In elastic systems, surface growth is usually accompanied by the development of geometrical incompatibility leading to residual stresses and triggering various instabilities. Here we developed a nonlinear theory of incompatible surface growth which quantitatively linkes deposition protocols with post-growth states of stress.

Need Help regarding UMAT subrouitne

Submitted by wasim on

It's been  2 weeks, I strated to use abaqus and user subrouitnes. To understand the how user subroutine work I thought to run some UMAT which I got it from  http://imechanica.org/files/Writing%20User%20Subroutines%20with%20ABAQUS.pdf  (page no- L6.73) to analysis a 3d steel plate with the material property which is given below.

Damage Mechanics Challenge Workshop

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Damage Mechanic Challenge

The purpose of the conference is to gather computational scientist and experimentalist to define and launch a numerical challenge to predict damage evolution and signatures of failure in brittle material.  At the workshop, participants are invited to

(1) present their computational approach for numerical simulation of damage; 

Strain Engineering of 2D Materials: Issues and Opportunities at the Interface

Submitted by Zhaohe Dai on

In this progress report, we reviewed recent advances in strategies for applying mechanical strain into 2D materials and recent state‐of‐the‐art characterizations of interface mechanics for 2D material–substrate systems.

Call for abstracts: Topic on 3D Printed Soft Materials in ASME IMECE 2019

Submitted by Kai Yu on

Dear colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the topic on 3D Printed Soft Materials at the ASME 2019 IMECE to be held from November 8 to November 14, 2019 at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, offers unique opportunities to explore novel properties and mechanics of soft materials. This topic calls papers from research efforts related to soft materials with novel properties realized or created using 3D printing techniques. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Call for abstracts: Symposium on Functional Soft Composites - Design, Mechanics, and Manufacturing in ASME IMECE 2019

Submitted by Teng zhang on

Dear friends and colleagues,

We invite you to submit an abstract to Symposium on Functional Soft Composites - Design, Mechanics, and Manufacturing. This symposium is part of 2019 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 8-14, 2019 Salt Lake City, Utah, US.  The symposium is sponsered by the Compoiste Material technical committee in the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.