News Archive

2017

December 26, 2017
Prof. D. Rittel taught a GIAN (Global Indian Academic Network) course at IIT Kanpur
Prof. D. Rittel taught a GIAN (Global Indian Academic Network) course at IIT Kanpur on « Failure of Materials”, organized by Prof. S. Basu and Venkit Narayanan. An opportunity to lean more about elite Indian institutions and their students. GIAN Group Photo
December 7, 2017
Today, Daniel Levy gave his master's seminar on the dynamic energy absorption of 3D printed Ti6Al4V structures. Congratulations!
December 3, 2017
Seminar and visit of the Mechanical Engineering department at Bilkent University.
Special thanks to Provost Prof. A. Akay and Prof. L. Biancofiore for making it it happen with the support of Israel Embassy in Turkey (Shani and Rashaa).

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November 27, 2017
The DFL welcomes a new M.Sc. student, Maayan Vana-Israeli
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The DFL welcomes a new M.Sc. student, Maayan Vana-Israeli who will investigate the fracture toughness of advanced ceramics.
November 22, 2017
Save the date! Session on Dental Biomechanics.
Save the date! This year, Dr. K. Shemtov-Yona and I are organising a session on Dental Biomechanics. The idea is to bring together Clinicians and Engineers for a fruitful exchange of views and results. You are welcome to contact us with a tentative title. The BSSM's 13th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics
November 22, 2017
Save the date: Course on “Damage and Failure of Materials Under Extreme Conditions”
November 22, 2017
The DFL welcomes Bat-El Yefa who will carry out her ME final project on cavitation damage in composite materials in our group.
Picture of The DFL welcomes Bat-El Yefa who will carry out her ME final project on cavitation damage in composite materials in our group.
November 19, 2017
The DFL warmly welcomes Espoir Komi N'Souglo
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The DFL warmly welcomes Espoir Komi N'Souglo, PhD student at Univ. Carlos III of Madrid (Prof. JA. Rodriguez-Martinez), who will spend 3 months with us in the framework of our European OUTCOME project.
November 12, 2017
D. Rittel will be teaching a course on Failure of Materials at IIT Kanpur , India.
November 8, 2017
Prof. D. Rittel will present his research on dynamic shear localization at Bilkent University (Turkey). Save the date!
November 7, 2017
The DFL was honored to show the Dganit planning boat to Rear Admiral D. Hahn today
October 26, 2017
Warm congratulations to Dr. Keren Shemtov-Yona for her excellent PhD research seminar.
September 27, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. A. Dorogoy and A. Godinger for their accepted paper in Int. J. of Impact Engineering
August 30, 2017
Prof. D. Rittel has been appointed Adjunct Professor and PhD Advisor at Beijing Institute of Technology
August 10, 2017
Warm congratulations to Dr. Jing Xie for the first 2 papers of her postdoc
Warm congratulations to Dr. Jing Xie for the first 2 papers of her postdoc, accepted in International Journal of Engineering Science:
  1. J. Xie and D. Rittel, (2017), “Three-dimensional stochastic modeling of metallic surface roughness resulting from pure waterjet peening”
  2. J. Xie and D. Rittel, (2017), “A two-dimensional model for metallic surface roughness resulting from pure waterjet peening”