What should be expected when an elastic rod is forced to slip inside a sliding sleeve and against an obstacle?
After buckling, configurational forces play a strong role, so that a force reversal is observed!
Enjoy the injection of an elastic rod at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/injection.html
Phase-transforming and switchable metamaterials
Dian Yang, Lihua Jin, Ramses V Martinez, Katia Bertoldi, George M Whitesides, Zhigang Suo
Buckling of Elastomeric Beams Enables Actuation of Soft Machines
Dian Yang, Bobak Mosadegh, Alar Ainla, Benjamin Lee, Fatemeh Khashai, Zhigang Suo, Katia Bertoldi, George M Whitesides
Dear readers,
As usual, you can find here our best wishes from the Legato Team, including a summary of our activities in 2015 and some highlights to look forward to in 2016: 2016 Lab Report:
http://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/23314/3/2016_Legato_News.pdf
Permalink: http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/23314
Happy new year!
Stéphane Bordas
This themed issue on mechanical metamaterials invites contributions from different perspectives with the aim of highlighting the latest advances in the field.
The themed issue will focus on mechanical metamaterials in the general sense. This includes acoustic and elastic metamaterials as well as other types of metamaterials with unique mechanical and/or thermal properties at any length scale.
Topics of interest include the following:
Hello everybody
I am trying to run a model with a surface-to-surface interaction (Abaqus - standard 6.12). The interaction is between soil and aluminium piles. I faced an error and I have not been able to solve it yet. I would appreciate it if anybody could help me solve it please. The error is:
Atul Jain, Jose M. Veas, Stefan Straesser, Wim Van Paepegem, Ignaas Verpoest, Stepan Lomov
To appear in a special issue of journal Composites Part A
Sapphire is an anisotropic crystal .
How to set elastic constants in abaqus ?
How to get the shear stress on some special plane ?
