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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  

who received officially his diploma today.

What’s next? Working on joint papers as usual 😊

to see that our model, co-developed with Dr. M. Dolinski, is given 12 points (like Eurovision) by the French Jury.

 

who joins as a new direct track Phd student. Yahav investigates the dynamic fracture of printed metallic lattices.

who will carry out their final undergraduate project on the concept of stress shielding in orthopedic implants.
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Orel Guetta presented an excellent summary of his doctoral research, together with an awesome catering.
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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.

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)

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.

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.

to the following two former graduate students who have been selected by the Department to receive awards for excellence in research. Amit Shavit (M.Sc.), co-advised with Dr. K. Shemtov Yona will receive the Nadav Shoham award for his work on the chemistry of peri-implantitis. Dr. Gleb Gil Goviazin, co-advised with Dr. Amnon Shirizly, will receive the David and Olga Pnueli award. A real source of pride!

and some of my students presented their work in progress. Here are some pics of our posters with Yahav Boim (lattices), Yehonatan Miara (dental implants) and Sagi Aharoni (bone mechanics).
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And here is the temporary link to our new paper with Prof. Jing Xie, Dr. María González García and co-authors, about the potential lethality of waterjet riot-dispersal cannon. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1irPe4jZMhf2w

high school students from Reali Matoss, Haifa, for a short introduction to Materials Mechanics.