Dynamics of Cracks with Interacting Faces
Professor Igor A. GUZ Sixth Century Chair in Solid Mechanics Head of School of Engineering University of Aberdeen Fraser Noble Building, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland e-mail: i.guz@abdn.ac.uk http://www.abdn.ac.uk/engineering/people/profiles/i.guz The presence of cracks and delaminations considerably decreases the strength and the lifetime of engineering structures as well as significantly increases the cost of exploitation. In particular,…
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Paper Accepted: A Numerical Study of Elastic Bodies That Are Described by Constitutive Equations That Exhibit Limited Strains
Paper Accepted for Publication in the International Journal of Solids and Structures A. Ortiz-Bernardin, R. Bustamante and K. R. Rajagopal, “A numerical study of elastic bodies that are described by constitutive equations that exhibit limited strains.” ABSTRACT Recently, a very general and novel class of implicit bodies has been developed to describe the elastic response…
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Make and Break Symmetry: New Semiconductor Devices Exploiting the Latest Developments in Condensed Matter Physics
Debdeep Jena Department of Electrical Engineering University of Notre Dame Semiconductor devices are undergoing a quiet revolution, many years in the making. Extreme bandgap materials such as AlN, BN, and GaN add rich new physics such as Berry-phase induced electronic polarization, new methods of doping and conductivity control, modification of electron-phonon interactions by neutrons in isotopes…
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Renewable Energy in Mechanical Engineering with Emphasis on Wind Energy
Mihir Sen Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame Energy is an important area of study and research in many disciplines. The three main aspects of this subject of interest for mechanical engineers are sources, storage, and usage of energy. Conventional energy will be briefly mentioned, but most of the discussion will…
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Seminar: Stability of Vascular Growth and Remodeling
Laboratorio de Mecánica Aplicada y Computacional (CAMLab) Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica Universidad de Chile Programa de Magíster en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Mención Mecánica Seminario Miércoles 2 de Octubre 2013, 14:30, Sala de Seminarios, 4to piso Torre Central Stability of Vascular Growth and Remodeling Dr.-Ing. Christian J. Cyron Laboratory Associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering Yale…
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Paper Submitted: Damage Identification Using Linear Approximation with Maximum-Entropy and Transmissibility Data
V. Meruane, A. Ortiz-Bernardin, “Damage identification using linear approximation with maximum-entropy and transmissibility data,” submitted. ABSTRACT Supervised learning algorithms have been proposed as a suitable alternative to model updating methods in damage assessment, being Artificial Neural Networks the most frequently used. Notwithstanding, the slow learning speed and the large number of parameters that need to…
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