News Archive

2024

December 17, 2024
Welcome Yuval Berenstein Melamed
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a new Brakim student who works on reactive materials, under the joint supervision of Dr. GG. Goviazin and myself.
December 16, 2024
Warm congratulations to the new Dr. O. Guetta!
December 1, 2024
A new paper with Tamir Albik and Dr. GG. Goviazin
compares notches and fatigue cracks under dynamic shear loading. Congratulations!!! A 50 link is available on: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1kBmS38l3lYwr
November 3, 2024
The 2025 Murray Medal
Quite unexpected, to be honest. But a real source of pride for sure:

"Congratulations from SEM on being selected to receive the 2025 Murray Medal and to deliver the 2025 Murray Lecture."

This award recognizes your sustained and distinguished technical contributions to the field of experimental mechanics and for “your pioneering contributions to dynamic thermomechanical behavior and fracture of materials, and experimental mechanics.” This honor is a well-deserved public statement by your professional peers of the quality and impact of the many notable contributions that you have made over the course of a richly-productive career.
September 29, 2024
Our new paper with Orel Guetta
in IJ Engineering Science is now available for 50 days using the following link. It presents a new way to model shock attenuation of viscous gels in 3D finite element simulations. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1jqc64jZMhfGq  
September 4, 2024
Warm congratulations to Dr. G. G. Goviazin
Goviazin-04.09.24who received officially his diploma today.

What’s next? Working on joint papers as usual 😊
September 3, 2024
It is always very nice and rewarding
12points to see that our model, co-developed with Dr. M. Dolinski, is given 12 points (like Eurovision) by the French Jury.
August 29, 2024
Sagi Aharoni presented his research today in a very nice seminar
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August 21, 2024
Warm welcome to Yahav Boim
who joins as a new direct track Phd student. Yahav investigates the dynamic fracture of printed metallic lattices.
August 4, 2024
The DFL welcomes Amit Lewin and Inbar Benyunes
who will carry out their final undergraduate project on the concept of stress shielding in orthopedic implants.

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June 9, 2024
Warm congrats, Orel Guetta!
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Orel Guetta presented an excellent summary of his doctoral research, together with an awesome catering.

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May 6, 2024
SIM vs LAB - mode II
Another simulation-lab observations of dynamic mode II. let's keep in mind that whereas the printed struts have many defects, the simulated ones are perfect. Moreover, we have many specimens with various kinds of failures whereas one simulation will always give the same outcome. And yet, all in all, there's a lot of resemblance between the simulation and the actual observation(s), thanks to Yahav Boim and Dr. Amnon Shirizly.
May 2, 2024
SIM vs LAB
For those who liked the dynamic mode I experiment, here is a first synchronized simulation with a simple tensile failure strain criterion. Looks quite promising...(courtesy Yahav Boim and Dr. Amnon Shirizly)
April 19, 2024
Mode II ti64
Same specimen but loaded in mode II now. Fatigue precracked. Note the appearance of a small crack-tip plastic zone. The crack closes afterwards, to open under most probably a mode I wave reflection.
April 18, 2024
One point impact of a fatigue precracked Ti6Al4V specimen
I can't resist sharing :-) One point impact of a fatigue precracked Ti6Al4V specimen. Filmed at 1MFps with our kirana ultra high speed camera. Note the crack opening and the characteristic plastic zones that develop rapidly. Courtesy of my grad student Tamir Albik and Dr Gleb Gil Goviazin.