New robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water
When we think of robots, we normally think of motors and batteries and electronics, but engineers at Caltech and ETH Zurich have created a swimming robot that's powered by material deformation. That means it's made using materials that change shape in response to temperature swings, and that deformation pushes the device through water.
In this paper, we present some analytical solutions for the stress fields of nonlinear anisotropic solids with distributed line and point defects.
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Our section at the Delft University of Technology is organizing this years' edition of the "Multi-scale modelling Course for Concrete" between 21-24 of August in Delft, the Netherlands. The course considers concrete on scales ranging from nanometre (MD) to micrometre (cement paste hydration) and metre (complete structure) scale. The course is organized by TU Delft, with lecturers also from TU Darmsdat and Tecnalia, Spain. Prospective participants can find more information on:
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Simpleware software user Dr. Llion Evans of Swansea University and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy has received £1 million in funding for a five-year project into virtual testing of new components. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the research looks at how image-based simulation using 3D X-ray imaging can virtually evaluate manufactured components.
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I am interested on simulating the converse Piezoelectric effect of materials and I have given the mechanical (Youngs modulus and Poissoin's ratio) and electric material properties (Electric Permittivity, Piezoelectric coupling matrix etc). However from the literature I got double index notation, I am struggling to convert double index notation to triple index notation.
The double index notation from literature is as follows:
Double index notation
d11 d12 d13 d14 d15 d16 -------------- 0 0 0 0 21.3 0
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