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Kudos to Gleb Gil Goviazin and Amit Shavit for presenting their work, and warm congratulations to Amit Shavit who was awarded the second prize!

We have the great pleasure to host Prof. Mark Kachanov from Tufts University. Mark gave his first lecture to students and took advantage of a student's umbrella as a pointer :-)
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for making the cover of Experimental Mechanics, Jan 2023 issue

who passed his master’s exam today with flying colors  

Today, Amit Shavit presented his research work on the signature of peri-implantitis, co-advised by Dr. Keren Shem-tov and myself. Congratulations! If you missed the event, the talk is available on https://youtu.be/fBoFFOeaMJM

The Dynamic Fracture Laboratory had the honor to welcome res. Maj. General Amos Horev (born 1924), former President of Technion, and show him our research activities.
Wishing Amos many more years in good health!

A warm welcome to our latest addition to the group: Evgeni Viluska who will investigate the mechanics of ULTEM for his masters, under the joint supervision of Dr. Y. Rotbaum and Prof. D. Rittel

modelling in a real implant geometry, with special emphasis on the evolution of the elastic properties and the resulting resonant frequencies as would be measured by clinicians. The paper, in press in Acta Biomaterialia, is co-authored by S. Gershov (Techinon), Jing Xie (Beijing Inst. Technology), Keren Shemtov Yona (TAU/Technion) and Furqan Ali Shah (Goteborg University). Comparing the kinetics of the BIC evolution and of the bone-implant gap closure (distance and contact osseointegration), it becomes evident that as long as this gap is not "solidified", the load cannot be efficiently transferred from the implant to the bone, which indicates that this evolution is the primary factor to consider rather than the BIC. For more details, please refer to https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1f-Q96CFjZMQ6z  

A new paper compares the respective performance of single pixel infrared detectors and high speed IR cameras. As high speed IR cameras are increasingly used, such a comparison is timely.

The paper, co-authored with G. G. Goviazin and A. Shirizly is available (temporarily) on https://rdcu.be/cWtgh

Today, we welcomed a joint delegation from AFRL with Dr. M. Gonzales and Dr. Major Swanson, ONR and IMOD to present our collaborative activities aimed at characterizing the impact behavior of a new USAF high strength steel. This is part of our THEOREM project together with our colleagues of U. Carlos 3 of Madrid. The visit comprised a brief description of the main results  so far and a lab. visit.
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Dr. K. Shemtov-Yona presented our joint research (with A. Shavit) on the issue of biocompatibility of titanium dental implants at PER-IADR Conference in Marseille. The essence of the research consists in identifying the mechano-chemical signature of peri-implantitis by an array of high resolution analysis techniques of retrieved implants.

who is joining from the Brakim program for his undergraduate project on bone mechanics

will investigate….shear banding, dynamic fracture and thermomechanical couplings. Welcome!