3D Printing of Highly Stretchable and Tough Hydrogels into Complex, Cellularized Structures
Sungmin Hong, Dalton Sycks, Hon Fai Chan, Shaoting Lin, Gabriel P. Lopez, Farshid Guilak, Kam W. Leong, Xuanhe Zhao, Advanced Materials, 27, 4035-4040, 2015.
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Extreme Mechanics Letters
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Jimmy Hsia, Carnegie Mellon University
Overhead Electrical Conductor fatigue testing: a new standard
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) just released a new international standard titled: "Overhead lines - Method for fatigue testing of conductors". IEC 62568. Edition 1.0 2015-07. www.iec.ch . It closely follows previous CIGRE and EPRI publications on this topic:
CIGRE SC B2 WG11 TF7 "Fatigue Endurance Capability of Conductor/Clamp Systems - Update of Present Knowledge" CIGRE TB 332, 2007, Paris.
Big news for post-docs: Free Access Program is now permanent
Since 2012, Elsevier has been periodically offering free access to scientific content to support young scholars in between jobs or looking for their first postdoctoral position. Qualified applicants were granted six months free access to all our journals and books on ScienceDirect and were able to use this access to work on grant applications and research projects.
Congratulations to Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters Best Paper Award 2011-2013 Winners
Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML) Best Paper Award goes to the best paper published in TAML per year. Particular attention is given to innovative articles. All awarded articles are available free online at www. taml. cstam.org.cn.
The articles and authors winning TAML Best Paper Award in 2011-2013 are listed below:
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Postdoc position in Computational Materials & Mechanics
A postdoctoral research associate position is available immediately in the Computational Materials & Mechanics Laboratory at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla), http://web.mst.edu/~aslezaeemm/
Candidates need to have a strong background in Molecular Dynamics (MD) or Phase Field Modeling (PFM).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute: Modeling the dynamic failure of geological materials
A new postdoctoral fellow position is available within the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (hemi.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University. The position is in the area of experiments and modeling of inelastic deformations in geological materials (including damage and micromechanics of fracture) under impact mechanical loading conditions. The potential candidate will (a) assist in the development of theoretical and computational models for dynamic behavior and failure of geological materials, (b) closely interact with experts in x-ray phase contrast imaging to characterize microcr
Post-doctoral position on multi-scale simulation of fracture (quasi-continuum methods)
Three post-doctoral positions are available at the University of Luxembourg with the ERC RealTCut project.
See http://www.legato-team.eu for details on the team and the attached PDF for the pre-requisites and possible research areas.
Regards,
Stéphane
Phase-field simulations of non-cooperative eutectoid transformation proceeding from polycrystalline austenite in Fe-C steels
Link to the article published in Acta Materialia: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1RMRv_UwYsChmK (Free access for 50 days)
K. Ankit, R. Mukherjee, B. Nestler. Deviations from cooperative growth mode during eutectoid transformation: Mechanisms of polycrystalline eutectoid evolution in Fe–C steels. Acta Materialia 97 (2015) 316–324.
Seismic Evaluation of Petroleum Storage Tank
I´m doing a plastic collapse evaluation as per API 579-1 Appendix B1, and one of the load cases is Earthquake loads. 579 refers to ASCE 7, which for tanks refers to API 650 Appendix E. The approach in 650 is a static equivalent lateral force seismic analysis where you find equivalent lateral forces and moments according to some likely earthquake spectrum. It seems that what you do is apply these at the top of the tank shell, which mimics the overturning and shear behavior, assuming the tank doesnt slide from inertia.