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EML New Year Message
Dear Friends of EML,
Happy New Year!
2020 was an extremely challenging year for all because of COVID 19. For most of us, the lockdowns and work from home negatively impacted our research activities; for some, it provided a time to reflect on the value of our work; and, for a few, it presented an unusual opportunity to explore new directions of research.
USACM 2021 Call for Award Nominations
Nominations for the 2021 USACM Honors and Awards are now being accepted. For information on guidelines and submitting nominations, go to this web page:
http://forms.usacm.org/2021_HA_Call
The deadline for submission is January 31, 2021. As a past President of the USACM, I'd like to encourage members of the iMechanica community to consider suitable awardees and nominate individuals as appropriate.
Special Issue "Advances in Elastic Micro-Structured Systems and Metamaterials" - deadline approaching
Dear colleagues,
happy New Year!
The submission deadline for the special issue "Advances in Elastic Micro-Structured Systems and Metamaterials" is approaching.
Interested authors may have a look at the website for further information about the contents of the special issue and about the instructions to submit their manuscript:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/elastic_micro_struc…
Journal Club for January 2021: 3D Printing of Soft Materials
3D Printing of Soft Materials
Qi (Kevin) Ge
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering
Sourthern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
1. Introduction
Numerics of growth-induced deformations
Dear iMechanicians,
Growth-induced deformation or morphoelasticity is an interesting phenomenon ranging from living tissues to biological plants in nature. We recently publish a paper in JMPS that solves some challenging boundary value problems by addressing few key issues in computational morphoelasticity. It might be interesting for you.
Special Issue on Instability and Bifurcation in Materials and Structures comes out
Dear Colleagues,
After one-year effort, we are happy to announce that the SI on Instability and Bifurcation in Materials and Structures is now completed and comes out online (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-non-linear-mechanics/special-issue/1089TRQ46GQ).
Quantitative Phase-Field Modeling of Solute Trapping in Rapid Solidification
A quantitative phase-field model is developed for prediction of solute trapping for solidification velocities relevant to additive manufacturing. S. Kavousi and M. Asle Zaeem, Quantitative phase-field modeling of solute trapping in rapid solidification. Acta Materialia 205 (2021) 116562 (11 pages).
Elsevier’s Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics live (free of charge) webinars: save dates & links!
Esteemed Colleague,
as the Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (TAFMech, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-and-applied-fracture-mechanics/), this post is to invite you to attend the following free on-line global live webinars on Fracture Mechanics-related topics:
Þ Prof. David McDowell – Georgia Tech Institute for Materials, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Phase field predictions of microscopic fracture and R-curve behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites
Dear iMechanicians,
I hope that the following work is of interest to you. We combine the phase field method with cohesive zone modelling to predict the fracture behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites across scales.
Wei Tan & Emilio Martínez-Pañeda. Phase field predictions of microscopic fracture and R-curve behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites. Composites Science and Technology 202, 108539 (2021)