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Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars
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The Engineering Department (CUED) hosts a series of Mechanics Colloquia seminars for post-graduates, undergraduates and staff. Non-CUED university people are also welcome to attend. If you have a question about this list, please contact: div-c; Claire Whitaker; Burigede Liu; Elizabeth Howard. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 1 upcoming talk and 69 talks in the archive. Designer alloys for tailored deformation-induced phase transformations: Revealing per-grain behaviourDr David Collins, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge . Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 Inverse design of multiscale structures and meta-materials by topology optimization and dehomogenizationProf. Ole Sigmund, Technical University of Denmark. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 EQUALITY-BASED FORMULATION FOR NON-SMOOTH VIBRATING SYSTEMSProf. Christopher Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology. Department of Engineering - LT6. Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICESProf. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. . Department of Engineering - LR5. Thursday 21 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Automated discovery of material modelsProfessor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich. Department of Engineering - LT6. Friday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel BehaviorProfessor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolutionProfessor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED. Department of Engineering - LR5. Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active compositesPedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,. Department of Engineering - LR5. Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain EnergyProf Zdenek Bazant . Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the MicrostructureProf Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplinesProf Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology . Department of Engineering - LR6. Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00 Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyondProf Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal PerspectiveProf Alan Cocks, Oxford. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environmentProf Geert Degrand, KU Leuven. Department of Engineering - LT2. Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 Decarbonising Road FreightProf David Cebon CUED. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 28 January 2022, 14:00-15:00 Machine Learning in Structural Dynamicsemail hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode Prof Keith Worden, Sheffield University. Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857. Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00 Learning based multi-scale modelingemail hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode Prof Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology. Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857. Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 Model-Free Data-Driven Science: Cutting out the Middlemanemail hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode Prof Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology . Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857. Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00 Oncotripsy: Selective ablation of cancer cells through tuned low-intensity pulsed ultrasoundProf Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00 Atomistically inspired origamiTea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 31 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakesTea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar Prof Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00 Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structuresTea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00 Active Cell MechanicsTea and coffee & biscuits will be available after the seminar Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany . Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 Snaking, dripping, and fluttering of elastic rodsProfessor Davide Bigoni,Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering University of Trento, Italy. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 08 December 2017, 14:00-15:00 Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicineProf Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University. Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering. Friday 16 June 2017, 14:00-15:00 A multiscale modelling strategy for virtual design of metallic alloysProf Javier LLorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, University of Madrid. Friday 03 February 2017, 14:00-15:00 Materials Challenges for Rolls RoyceDr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc. Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00 Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scalesProf Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00 Contacts and FrettingProf David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00 Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissueProfessor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00 Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier CoatingsProfessor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 05 February 2016, 14:00-15:00 Counting with symmetry for structural analysisDr Simon Guest, CUED. Department of Engineering - LR2. Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00 Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solidsProf. Michel W. Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 30 October 2015, 14:00-16:00 New functional surfaces: from science to applicationProfessor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 21 November 2014, 14:30-16:00 Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal AlloysProfessor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 24 October 2014, 14:30-16:00 Mechanics of Stretchable ElectronicsProfessor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University. Department of Engineering - LR4. Thursday 10 April 2014, 14:30-16:00 Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface RoughnessProfessor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 07 March 2014, 14:30-16:00 Experiments in multidisciplinary materials researchProfessor Mark Miodownik, University College London. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 07 February 2014, 14:30-16:00 Nonlinearity in musical instrumentsProfessor Jim Woodhouse, CUED. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 24 January 2014, 14:30-16:00 Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chiralityProfessor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 15 November 2013, 14:30-16:00 Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface modelsProfessor René de Borst, University of Glasgow. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 15 February 2013, 14:30-16:00 Title to be confirmedProfessor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 01 February 2013, 14:30-16:00 Aspects of science, technology and governmentProfessor Roderick Smith, Imperial College. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 16 November 2012, 14:30-16:00 "Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre - a new sort of stuff"Professor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 26 October 2012, 14:30-16:00 Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfacesProf Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00 Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the earProf Steve Elliott, University of Southampton. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 20 January 2012, 14:00-15:00 Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion. From soft matter to biomimetics.Prof Jean-Marc di Meglio, University of Paris Diderot. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 18 November 2011, 14:30-15:30 Design for environment and riskProf David Cebon, CUED. Department of Engineering - LR4. Friday 21 October 2011, 14:30-15:30 Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substratesProfessor Michael Thouless (University of Michigan). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 Bacterial flagellar filaments: smart structure, smart proteinProfessor Chris Calladine, Emeritus Professor CUED. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 28 January 2011, 14:30-15:30 Fractals, Failure and Lightweight StructuresRobert Farr, Structured Materials and Process Science Department,. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 03 December 2010, 14:30-15:30 Tribology at the Smallscale: Learning from NatureProf John Williams (CUED). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 12 February 2010, 14:30-15:30 Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting?Tony Purnell (Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at CUED, Technical Consultant to the FIA, ex head of Jaguar F1 and Red Bull F1). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 05 February 2010, 14:30-15:30 Tissue Contact MechanicsGeorges Debregeas: Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear StressesDr Dov Sherman: Technion, Israel. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 Why is brake squeal so twitchy? Modelling and sensitivity studies of friction-driven vibrationProf Jim Woodhouse. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 22 May 2009, 14:30-15:30 Semi-Analytic Modeling of Micro-Defects in an Infinite Semi-Infinite MatrixPlease note this is to be held in the Oatley Seminar Room Professor Leon Keer (Northwestern University). Department of Engineering - Oatley Seminar Room. Monday 23 March 2009, 14:15-15:30 Stability and Plasticity in Structural Frame Behaviour Analysis and Design: Seeking a Conceptual Framework for the Computer AgeProf Michael Rotter. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 13 March 2009, 14:30-15:30 Domain Switching in Ferroelectric Perovskites and ApplicationsKaushik Bhattacharya (CalTech). Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 23 January 2009, 14:30-15:30 Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestrationProfessor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 07 November 2008, 14:30-15:30 Maths, Engineering and IndustryJohn Ockendon, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 10 October 2008, 14:30-15:30 A Methodology to Study Morphological Changes in Sclerotic Arteries, and Related Biomechanical Modelling and SimulationProfessor Gerhard Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 14 March 2008, 14:30-15:30 **CANCELLED** Flow Induced Excitation of Elastic ModesDr Shreyas Mandre, Harvard Unviversity. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 07 March 2008, 14:30-15:30 Crack tips' black box: Spectroscopic challenge to the strength of solidsProf. Giuseppe Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 18 January 2008, 14:30-15:30 Future directions in structural dynamicsDavid Ewins. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 30 November 2007, 14:30-15:30 Mono-monostatic bodies: the story of the GömböcGabor Domokos. Department of Engineering - LR6. Friday 16 November 2007, 14:30-15:30 Materials Information: from testing machines to drug-eluting stentsProf David Cebon (CUED) / Prof Mike Ashby (EDC). Friday 16 March 2007, 14:30-15:30 Biomechanics of the cytoskeleton: cell contractility and mechanosensitivity of cell adhesionDr Vikram Deshpande (CUED). Friday 26 January 2007, 14:30-15:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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