Two Post-doc positions in Non-linear Dynamics
Employment as an assistant researcher (Post-doc) at the project OPUS from National Centre of Science.
Blog posts
Journal Club for October 2017: Multiscale modeling and simulation of active matter
Tong Gao
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Michigan State University
Introduction
Symposium on Recent Advances in Mechanical Metamaterials (18th USNC/TAM)
Dear Mechanicians,
You are cordially invited to submit your abstract (text 400 words) to our Symposium on Recent Advances in Mechanical Metamaterials (symposium 352) as part of the 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics that will be hosted by Northwestern University at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare from June 5 to June 9, 2018.
Abstract submission is open until November 10, 2017
Ballistic penetration and fragmentation of brittle targets
The attached, to appear in I.J. Impact Engng., is an attempt to simplify such very complex calculations using an incubation time concept for defects coalescence, in the spirit of Tuler and Butcher and others.
By comparing the calculations and the experiments, it seems that the approach works nicely, produces realistic results, and most of all does not necessitate complex models with too many parameters of very sophisticated FE formulations.
Enjoy
[Deadline: 20 October 2017] ICDM3, July 4-6th, 2018, Shanghai, China - Session on Computational modeling of damage and failure in solids and structures
Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the following minisymposium at the Third International Conference on Damage Mechanics (ICDM3) to be held in Shanghai, China, July 4-6th, 2018:
MS5: Computational modeling of damage and failure in solids and structures
organised by Jian-Ying Wu (South China University of Technology), Phu Nguyen (Monash University) and Zhenjun Yang (Zhejiang University). The topics are:
ECCOMAS CMCS 2017, 7 - 9 Nov. 2017 Paris, France: deadline for registration 7 October
Dear colleagues,
The ECCOMAS thematic conference "Computational Modeling of Complex Materials Across the scales" (CMCS 2017) will be held in Paris, from 7th to 9th November 2017.
https://cmcs2017.sciencesconf.org/
Subcritical bifurcation in a self-excited single-degree-of-freedom system with velocity weakening–strengthening friction law: analytical results and comparison with experiments
Nonlinear Dyn DOI 10.1007/s11071-017-3779-4 ORIGINAL PAPER
A. Papangelo, M. Ciavarella, N. Hoffmann
Postdoctoral position at the Technion
A new postdoctoral fellow position will start on 1 November 2017 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The position is in the area of theoretical and computational modeling of failure in soft solids. The potential candidate should have a Ph.D.
Role of grain boundaries in determining strength and plastic deformation of yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia bicrystals
Mechanical properties of yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia (YSTZ) bicrystals under compressive loading are investigated by atomistic simulations. Previous studies on deformation of single-crystal YSTZ showed that some specific orientations promote dislocation emission, tetragonal to monoclinic phase transformation, or both. In this work, nanograins with different orientations are selectively combined to generate bicrystals with various grain boundaries (GBs).