News Archive

2022

May 22, 2022
A warm welcome to our visitors from Univ. Carlos III of Madrid:
Prof. JA Rodriguez Martinez and Dr. JC Nieto Fuentes

Prof. JA Rodriguez Martinez and Dr. JC Nieto Fuentes

 
May 19, 2022
Selected pictures of Pollack Lecture given by Prof. G. Ravichandran
May 16, 2022
Today, we had a morning group presentation
Thank you all for making it successful! group presentation

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May 15, 2022
Today was the first "informal" talk by Prof. G. Ravichandran
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about vizualization in mechanics

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May 15, 2022
Prof. G. Ravichandran (Caltech) is visiting the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Picture of Prof. G. Ravichandran (Caltech) is visiting the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
Prof. G. Ravichandran (Caltech) is visiting the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, as recipient of the prestigious Pollack Lectureship. Ravi will have meetings with the members of the DFL and other groups in the department.
May 8, 2022
A 316L stainless steel specimen is impacted using a split Hopkinson bar
The steel's temperature increases as a result of thermomechanical coupling, as recorded by our new Telops camera. credit: G.G. Goviazin
A 316L stainless steel specimen
May 2, 2022
We are delighted to host soon Prof. G. Ravichandran,
our 2022 Pollack Distinguished Lecturer.
Please join us for this celebration! Pollak poster
May 1, 2022
Warm congratulations to Tzvi Gershanik and Itay Levin
April 7, 2022
Our new Telops Fast M2K infrared camera has arrived!
Stay connected for new adventures…

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March 24, 2022
We welcome warmly Prof. Oren Petel
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Prof. Oren Petel will spend the coming 3 months with us.
March 2, 2022
2barG: A user friendly software is available to process Split Hopkinson (Kolsky) Pressure bar tests
2barG
February 27, 2022
Warm congratulations to our friend and colleague Dr. Zev Lovinger
who was nominated Research Associate in the department.  
February 20, 2022
Specialised Imaging - Kirana
Today, the team from Specialised Imaging (Jolyon Cleaves, left, and Wai Chan, right) brought us back our Kirana with a brand new 7.5 Mfps sensor and updated software.

Specialised Imaging Kirana-team

February 13, 2022
Fatigue failures still make victims in 2022!
Those subjects are extensively addressed in my undergraduate course “Failure of materials”.
And still, it would have been much better without this recent tragic example.
"Rare technical malfunction caused deadly helicopter crash in January"  
February 13, 2022
Cheers for submitting a new paper! A tradition to adopt
LtR: Tamas Rev, Ofir Shor, Daniel Rittel