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New book: Modeling Failure and Fracture of Soft Solids and Fluids

Submitted by Konstantin Volokh on

Nonlinear continuum mechanics allows solving problems beyond the scope of the theory of linear elasticity for solids and the Navier-Stokes theory for fluids. The success of the nonlinear continuum mechanics would be impossible, of course, without its happy marriage to numerical methods that flourished after the computer revolution. Nowadays, the nonlinear continuum approach is used to model fracture.

Effect of notch root radius on apparent fracture toughness of Ti6Al4V alloy: experiments and simulations

Submitted by Parag Tandaiya on
research
Titanium Alloy; Fracture Toughness; Notch root radius; Experiments; FEM Simulations; Fractography

I am happy to share our paper entitled 'Effect of notch root radius on apparent fracture toughness of Ti6Al4V alloy: experiments and simulations' recently published in International Journal of Fracture. 

Rapid detachment of a rigid sphere adhered to a viscoelastic substrate: An upper bound model incorporating Maugis parameter and preload effects

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

Just published on JMPS

Open Postdoc on computational methods and inverse problems

Submitted by Andrew J. Gross on
job
postdoc
FEA
FEM
metal plasticity
inverse problems
Optimization
uncertainty quantification
A Postdoctoral Fellow is sought to fill an immediate opening in the Gross Materials Lab at the University of South Carolina to work on a DARPA funded project. The postdoc will have the opportunity to attend regular meetings with DARPA and other DOD program managers. The research is focused on extracting yield surfaces from data rich full-field experimental information by solving an inverse problem.

Open Postdoc on computational methods and inverse problems

Submitted by Andrew J. Gross on
postdoc
FEA
FEM
metal plasticity
inverse problems
Optimization
uncertainty quantification
A Postdoctoral Fellow is sought to fill an immediate opening in the Gross Materials Lab at the University of South Carolina to work on a DARPA funded project. The postdoc will have the opportunity to attend regular meetings with DARPA and other DOD program managers. The research is focused on extracting yield surfaces from data rich full-field experimental information by solving an inverse problem.

Postdoc at Oxford on the mechanics of solid state batteries

Submitted by Emilio Martíne… on
job

We are hiring a postdoc to work on the mechanics of solid state batteries. The postdoc will be based at the Mechanics of Materials Lab (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) and work co-supervised by Profs Laurence Brassart and Emilio Martinez-Paneda. A close collaboration with experimentalists in the Pasta Group (Materials Department) is also expected.

University of Wyoming Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows: AI + a second area (e.g., Solid Mechanics and Materials realted to energy applicaiton)

Submitted by xiangzhang on
job
Machnie Leanring
data-driven
Irradiation Creep
battery
hydrogen embrittlement
manufacturing
Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows

Dear Colleagues,

The University of Wyoming is accepting applications for the Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Program, a two-year interdisciplinary research position focusing on AI applications in several selected areas. 

Leonardo's universal friction coefficient is found to be universal after all!

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on
research
friction
tribology granular materials
It turns out that friction coefficient 0.25 suggested as universal by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago has some universaility, as minimum friction coefficient for any granular material: it makes me proud as italian ;) 
I guess it would be interesting to show this experimental result also theoretically or numerically, any interest?
 
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