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Special Issue: Call for Papers & Guest Editors—Advanced Applied Mathematics for Medical Engineering and Medical Technique Applications

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Special Issue: Call for Papers & Guest Editors—Advanced Applied Mathematics for Medical Engineering and Medical Technique Applications

 

Dear Colleagues,


Hope this email finds you well.


We are writing to inform you that a new special issue has just been established.

Title: Advanced Applied Mathematics for Medical Engineering and Medical Technique Applications

Journal: Engineering Mathematics

On the consequences of cross-link dissociation in hydrogels

Submitted by noyco on
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Polymer networks
hydrogels
cross-link dissociation

The submersion of a polymer network with a high density of hydrogen bond based cross-links in an aqueous bath results in the formation of a rubber-like hydrogel. The cross-links, which connect chains and maintain the structure of the network, can dissociate as a result of two main factors: (1) the interactions between the hydrogen bonds and the surrounding water molecules and (2) the forces that are exerted on the cross-link from the interconnected chains.

EML Webinar (Season 2) on 16 December 2021 by Nanshu Lu on soft electronics for digitizing human body and human-centered robotics

Submitted by Teng Li on
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EML Webinar (Season 2) on 16 December 2021 will be given by Nanshu Luonsoft electronics for digitizing human body and human-centered robotics. Discussion leader: John A. Rogers, Northwestern University

Time: 9:30 am Boston, 2:30 pm London, 10:30 pm Beijing on 16 December 2021

Zoom Link: https://ter.ps/EMLWebinarS2

Viscoelastic dissipation in repeated normal indentation of an Hertzian profile

Submitted by Antonio Papangelo on
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Adhesion and fracture; adhesion; contact mechanics; friction; viscoelasticity

Simple exact solutions are known for the indentation problem of a viscoelastic halfspace by a rigid sphere only as long as the contact area is growing. We consider instead a more general cyclic repeated indentation with a pulsating load with a period of zero load. We show that a combination of exact with empirical relaxation solutions coming from simple uniaxial cases is sufficiently accurate to estimate the energy dissipated per cycle, which we report for the standard ”3-elements” solid and periodic half-sine loading for various parameters.

Enhancing standard finite element codes with POD for reduced order thermal analysis: Application to electron beam melting of pure tungsten

Submitted by Jinxiong Zhou on
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Proper orthogonal decomposition; Reduced order modeling; Finite element codes; Additive manufacturing; Electron beam melting; Heat transfer

 This paper describes a numerical scheme that implements reduced order modeling of transient heat transfer problems by enhancing a standard fifinite element code, ABAQUS, and integrating it with proper orthogonal decomposition (POD). The capability of output and manipulation of matrices, the user subroutine for moving heat source and easy enforcement of boundary conditions, and the powerfulness of pre- and post-processing in the commercial software package are leveraged, resulting in a standard and accessible tool for POD analysis.

Role of Interface on the Toughening of Thermoplastic-Based Nanocomposites Reinforced with Nanofibrillated Rubber

Submitted by Mahdi Zeidi on
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fracture toughness
interface toughness
Molecular_Dynamics

Optimizing toughening efficiency of nanofibrillated rubber embedded in thermoplastic polymers has always been a challenge. In our work published in Nanoscale journal, by a combined MD-QM method, we demonstrate the roles of interface & interfiber interactions on the toughness and failure mechanisms of rubber-toughened polypropylene nanocomposites.

 

https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NR07363J

 

 

 

Accretion and Ablation in Deformable Solids with an Eulerian Description: Examples using the Method of Characteristics

Submitted by Kiana Naghibzadeh on
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Accretion
Surface growth
Nonlinear elasticity
additive manufacturing

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to see the preprint of our new paper "Accretion and Ablation in Deformable Solids with an Eulerian Description: Examples using the Method of Characteristics" which will appear in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. Recent work has proposed an Eulerian approach to the surface growth problem, enabling the side-stepping of the issue of constructing the reference configuration. However, this raises the complementary challenge of determining the stress response of the solid. To resolve this, the approach introduced the elastic deformation as an additional kinematic descriptor of the added material, and its evolution has been shown to be governed by a transport equation. Here, we applied the method of characteristics to solve concrete simplified problems motivated by surface growth in biomechanics and manufacturing (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10812865211054573)

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