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Our latest article “Quantum and classical molecular dynamics simulations of shocked polyurea and polyurethane” is available freely for 50 days from this URL: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1eJem3In-urdzV

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

Dear Colleagues,

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 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

Bio-Inspired 3D Printed Sutures under Shear

Richard Nash and Yaning Li*

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, MA

* y.li@northeastern.edu

Spectral formulation of the boundary integral equation method for antiplane problems

Kunnath Ranjith

Abstract

 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).

FYI our review article on "exploiting nonlinearity in phononic materials to enable nonlinear wave responses" was recently published in Acta Mechanica:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-021-03089-z

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)

cdmHUB invites you to attend the Global Composites Experts Webinar Series. 

Title: Fibrous Shell Approach and 3D Second Gradient Modeling for Textile Composite Draping 

Speaker: Dr.  Philippe Boisse

Time: 12/9, 11AM-12PM EST.

Please go to https://bit.ly/3l6LUgT to register for this webinar.

Dear iMechanica Community, I hope that you find the below work of interest to you - We present a generalised phase field formulation for metallic fatigue, where cyclic deformation is modelled by means of a combined non-linear kinematic/isotropic hardening law.

Hi all,

We at iDICs (International Digital Image Correlation Society) are thrilled to invite you to join the most recent DVC (Digital Volume Correlation) challenge! The DVC Challenge 2.0 has two sub-challenges. The first part is an interlaboratory study on the temporal stability of laboratory X-ray Computed Tomography systems. The second part is to identify available experimental and synthetic images and develop a standardized set of high-quality and other challenging datasets from different imaging modalities, which will be further used for DVC code assessment.

50 days' free access to the article. Anyone clicking on this link before December 26, 2021 will be taken directly to the final version of the article on ScienceDirect, which they are welcome to read or download. No signup, registration or fees are required

Hi everyone, I am a postdoc at Yale University. I am posting on some of my previous work on fiber networks and heterogeneous materials. We reported that effective stiffness is a concave function of inhomogeneity properties, and effective stiffness becomes smaller with increasing heterogeneity as an example consequence. 

Our new paper on ultrasonic vibration fatigue [a collaboration between 4 universities & 3 countries] is available for free access until  December 21, 2021, 

Wei Gao

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio

In this journal club, we provide a brief summary on the concept, recent progress and tools of machine learning (ML) potential for atomistic materials modelling. We hope that it could benefit to the readers who are new to this filed and plan to develop their own or use others ML potentials. Comments and disscussions are welcomed. 

Our recent paper on predicting hydrogen damage in FCC steel single crystals. Most important thing about this paper is that the special issue is dedicated to Professor Siegfried Schmauder on his 65th birthday. Happy birthday Professor Schmauder and thanks for all your guidance, support and collaborations throughout my journey which still continues.

EML Webinar (Season 2) on 4 November 2021 will be given by Hanqing Jiang on origami-based metamaterials: mechanics and devices. Discussion leader: Pradeep Sharma, University of Houston

Time: 10 am Boston, 3 pm London, 10 pm Beijing on 4 November 2021