Blog posts
Internal lattice relaxation of single-layer graphene under in-plane deformation
This paper has been published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 56 (2008), pp. 1609-1623 (doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2007.07.013).
Abstract
PhD Scholarship - Monash University, Australia
An Australian Research Council funded PhD Scholarship is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Australia in the area of computational mechanics. The objective of this project is to develop a multi-scale bifurcation-based decohesion model within the framework of the Material Point Method (MPM), one of the meshfree methods, for simulating glass fragmentation under blast loading.
BIOMECHANICAL STUDY OF GOLF BALL IMPACT ON CHILD’S HEAD USING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
Head traumatic injury due to the impact of a flying golf ball is one of the severest injuries sustained on a golf course. This paper presents numerical simulation results based on the finite element (FE) method to investigate head injuries in children due to impacts by flying golf balls.
Some weekend reading
Terence Tao (one of the Fields Medal winners this year) has started blogging. He has a detailed discussion on the Navier-Stokes equations here. It's long but definitely worth reading - particularly because of the wide range of ideas that he talks about.
How to characterize the interface?
Recently, I am interested in the interface between two different masses. But, I don’t know how to characterize the interface between them, especially the adhesive strength and the mechanics model.
The Leonhard Euler Tercentenary
Just a reminder that this Sunday, April 15 will be exactly 300 years since Leonhard Euler was born.
I am sure many mechanicians will toast this weekend on this extraordinnary anniversary to the person who laid down much of the foundations in mathematics and mechanics.
Some of the related links on the web are:
Complex variable methods
- What types of PDEs can be solved using complex variable methods
- Anti-plane shear
- Elements of a function of a complex variable (contour integral, analytic continuation, conformal mapping)
- Line force
- Screw dislocation
- Crack
- Circular hole
- Elliptic hole
- Plemelj formulas
- Riemann-Hilbert problem
- Crack interacting with a point singularity
- In-plane deformation
- Dundurs parameters
- Interfacial cracks
- Anisotropic materials. Stroh formalism
Lecture 15 Ratcheting induced slow crack (RISC)
- Slides are attached.
- Reading material: Section 4 of Z. Suo, " Reliability of interconnect structures." pp. 265-324 in Volume 8: Interfacial and Nanoscale Failure (W.
