NiTi superelasticity via atomistic simulations
Please see the attached paper (the pdf file) for complete details.
Blog posts
Overhead Electrical Conductor in bending: Papailiou's model revisited
In a paper to appear and available online,( An analytical approach to model the hysteretic bending behavior of spiral strands, Applied Mathematical Modeling 2016, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0307904X16300592 )
Pattern formation in plastic liquid films on elastomers by ratcheting
See our newly discovered phenomena, Pattern formation in plastic liquid films on elastomers by ratcheting
Here is the abstract:
Voltage-induced buckling of dielectric films using fluid electrodes
B. Tavakol and D.P. Holmes, Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 112901, (2016).
ASCE AND EMI 2016 AWARD RECIPIENTS
ASCE announced the winners of six of its prestigious Society awards administered by its Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI):
2016 Maurice A. Biot Medal: Ronaldo I. Borja, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, Stanford University
2016 Jack E. Cermak Medal: Qiusheng Li, Ph.D., City University of Hong Kong
2016 Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal: Bruce R. Ellingwood, Ph.D., P.E., F.SEI, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, Georgia Institute of Technology
GIMC-GMA Congress | Lucca, Italy | 27-29 June 2016
Dear Colleague,
I kindly inform you that the XXI National Congress of Computational Mechanics and the VIII Meeting of the AIMETA Mechanics of Materials Group will take place from 27th to 29th of June 2016 at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy.
With great pleasure we announce that the plenary lectures will be delivered by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Miehe (University of Stuttgart) and Prof. Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge).
Important deadlines for participation:
15 April 2016: Submission of abstracts.
Determining eigenstrains from simulations
Hi everyone,
I am to determine eigenstrains from a given result. Anyone can guide me along?
Influence of substrate interaction and confinement on electric-field-induced transition in symmetric block-copolymer thin films
In the present work, we study morphologies arising due to competing substrate interaction, electric field, and confinement effects on a symmetric diblock copolymer. We employ a coarse-grained nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard phenomenological model taking into account the appropriate contributions of substrate interaction and electrostatic field. The proposed model couples the Ohta-Kawasaki functional with Maxwell equation of electrostatics, thus alleviating the need for any approximate solution used in previous studies.
3rd International Conference on BioTribology (ICoBT2016)
W. Gregory Sawyer, University of Florida, USA will be the Plenary Speaker at ICoBT2016
Keynote Speakers include:
Dan Bader, University of Southampton, UK
David L. Burris, University of Delaware, USA
Simon Johnson, Unilever, UK
Mark Rainforth, University of Sheffield, UK
Feng Zhou, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Research Fellow (Post-doc) position in Micromechanical Modelling of Lithium-Ion Batteries
The post is funded through a recently awarded four year European H2020 research project SINTBAT (Silicon based materials and new processing technologies for improved lithium-ion batteries), and coordinated by VARTA.