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Daniel Mulvihill's picture

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Mechanics & Tribology of Triboelectric Nanogenerators (University of Glasgow, UK)

The James Watt School of Engineering is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to contribute to/make a leading contribution to a large international EPSRC funded project looking at the physics and mechanics of triboelectric nanogenerators (or TENGs).  This position will focus on the mechanics and tribology of TENGs and will involve both experimental & modelling work. Of particular interest is modelling and experimental analysis aimed at understanding, predicting and optimising the contact area and charge transfer at triboelectric interfaces.

marco.paggi's picture

Thematic session on Contact Mechanics @ ICTAM 2024

Dear Colleague,

we are organizing a thematic session on Contact Mechanics (SM02) at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Daegu, Korea, August 25-30, 2024, www.ictam2024.org

The deadline for abstract submission is approaching: January 15, 2024.

 

Kevin Turner's picture

Gordon Conference on Adhesion - Late July 2023

The Gordon Research Conference on the Science of Adhesion is this summer (23-28 July 2023).  The meeting will be held on the campus of Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts and will have more than 20 invited talks from world leaders in the fields of adhesion, soft matter, and materials. This is a great meeting for students and early career researchers to get connected to the community. Poster presentations are strongly encouraged from all participants, and poster abstracts can still be submitted.

vacary's picture

Benchmarks for computation contact Mechanics. A collection of problems.

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to a recent work we have been doing to set up a library of examples of discrete one-sided contact problems with Coulomb friction. 

The collection of problems can be found here https://github.com/FrictionalContactLibrary/fclib-library  and the C API for writing and listing these files here:

https://github.com/FrictionalContactLibrary/fclib

Mike Ciavarella's picture

A comment on a hybrid asperity-Persson friction rubber theory by A Emami, S Khaleghian and S Taheri. Friction 9(6): 1707--1725 (2021)

dear collegues, I may be interested to share your views on an "asperity theory" modified Persson's rubber friction contact mechanics theory which I find not clearly motivated and seems to lead to erroneous conclusions ---- but I am also unable to reproduce the results claimed by the authors. The preprint is here, and the original paper attached: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359392510

Dr. Hanaor - Department of Ceramic Materials - TU Berlin's picture

Electrical contact resistance and its dependence on applied pressure

The relationships between surface roughness, contact pressure and contact resistance are studied in this work published three years ago.

It is imporant to distinguish between the different conduction mechanisms acting at contacts at different scales, in order to better understand how surface structure and surface chemistry can alter the behaviour of electrical contacts

miquel.aguirre's picture

1 PhD position in Real time Solid Mechanics & 3D Printing - Marie Curie ITN project Meditate - ESR03

1 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) PhD position in biomechanics offered within the framework of the project MeDiTATe (The medical digital twin for aneurysm prevention and treatment) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks (ITN) with Grant Agreement No. 859836. MeDiTATe is a European Industrial Doctorate (EID).

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Contact stiffness of rough surfaces

Contact stiffness of multiscale surfaces by truncation analysis

 

In this concise piece of work, an effective method is shown to gain new understandings into the role of surface structure in the field of contact mechanics. In particular, normal contact stiffness is correlated to parameters of surfaces' fractal dimension and amplitude. 

marco.paggi's picture

New book on Modeling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology, CISM series, Springer

The new book "Modeling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology" (CISM book series, Springer) has been published: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-20377-1

Editors: Paggi, Marco (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy), Hills, David (University of Oxford)

Main contributing authors, lecturers of the CISM course http://www.cism.it/courses/C1805/: D.A. Hills, J.R. Barber, M. Paggi, D. Dini, A. Almqvist 

(closed) PhD position in biomechanics, University of Sheffield

The following position is not longer available

 

Applications are solicited for a PhD position, based at the Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK, starting October, 2019.

Application deadline: January 23, 2019

Fully-funded scholarships are available on a competitive basis. 

Please see the attachment for further details regarding the position and the application process. 

marco.paggi's picture

Advanced course on contact mechanics and tribology @ CISM, Italy

Dear Colleague,

 

this is a gentle reminder about the CISM course:

 

"Modelling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology"  

Udine, May 28 - June 1, 2018

 

Partial constraint singularities in elastic rods

We present a unified classical treatment of partially constrained elastic rods. Partial constraints often entail singularities in both shapes and reactions. Our approach encompasses both sleeve and adhesion problems, and provides simple and unambiguous derivations of counterintuitive results in the literature. Relationships between reaction forces and moments, geometry, and adhesion energies follow from the balance of energy during quasistatic motion. We also relate our approach to the configurational balance of material momentum and the concept of a driving traction.

Mike Ciavarella's picture

Kenneth Langstreth Johnson. 19 March 1925 — 21 September 2015

I strongly recommend reading these two papers about the recent loss of Ken L Johnson, FRS, Timoshenko Medallist, Gold Tribology Medal, who died the day of my 45th birthday, exactly twice as old.

Rod Smith Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society · August 2016 Kenneth Langstreth Johnson. 19 March 1925 — 21 September 2015 DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2016.0012   

Hills, D. A., Nowell, D., & Barber, J. R. (2016). KL Johnson and contact mechanics. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 0954406216634121.

marco.paggi's picture

CISM course ''Modelling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology''

Advanced Course at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM, Udine, Italy)

 

Modelling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology

May 28, 2018 — June 1, 2018 

Coordinators:

Marco Paggi (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy)

David A. Hills (University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain)

marco.paggi's picture

Contact in soft tissues

Dear Colleague,  the III International Conference on Biomedical Technology (ICBT 2017, an Eccomas conference) will be held in Hannover (Germany) from November 6th to 8th, 2017.

marco.paggi's picture

Mini-symposium at ICF14 on "Fracture and contact in multiphysics problems: from energy to biological applications"

Dear Colleague,

I kindly inform you that, in the framework of the 14th International
Conference on Fracture (ICF14), to be held in Rhodes, Greece, June 18-23,
2017, we are organizing a mini-symposium on "Fracture and contact in
multiphysics problems: from energy to biological applications".

If you are interested, please submit your two-page abstract through the
ICF14 website (www.icf14.org) by October 31, 2016, selecting our
mini-symposium.

Eran Bouchbinder's picture

Dynamic instabilities of frictional sliding at a bimaterial interface

Understanding the dynamic stability of bodies in frictional contact steadily sliding one over the other is of basic interest in various disciplines such as physics, solid mechanics, materials science and geophysics. Here we report on a two-dimensional linear stability analysis of a deformable solid of a finite height H, steadily sliding on top of a rigid solid within a generic rate-and-state friction type constitutive framework, fully accounting for elastodynamic effects.

ACM2015 : International Conference on Advances in Applied and Computational Mechanics ,5-7 August 2015, Izmir/Turkey

We are proud to announce International Conference on Advances in Applied and Computational Mechanics, which is organized in the honor of  70th birthday of Prof.J.N.Reddy. This is a tribute for his many and lasting contribution to education and research in applied mechanics.

 

Conference will be held at  WYNDHAM GRAND Hotel, Inciralti Izmir/Turkey during August 5-7, 2015. 

marco.paggi's picture

MUSAM - Multi-scale Analysis of Materials - Annual report 2014

Dear Colleague,

 

I would like to inform you that the annual report on the scientific and educational activities carried out by the research unit MUSAM on Multi-scale Analysis of Materials at IMT Lucca during 2014 can be downloaded from the following link:

 

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