News & Events

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”
July 27, 2017
Congratulations to Raoof Korabi for defending his master's thesis
On 27/7, Raoof Korabi defended his master's thesis. Warm congratulations and thanks to his family who took care of a wonderful catering!

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July 12, 2017
D. Rittel has been nominated to be the 2018 recipient of the prestigious B. lazan Award by the Society of Experimental Mechanics
July 10, 2017
Warm congratulations to Sagy Cibola who passed his final M.Sc. exam today with flying colors!
July 6, 2017
Prof. A. Needleman visited the Materials Mechanics Center
Welcome Alan and Wanda and see you soon! Prof. A. Needlemanin the Materials Mechanics Center, with Prof. Rittel & Prof. Osovsky
July 2, 2017
Warm congratulations to Longhui Zhang and Prof. S. Osovski
Warm congratulations to Longhui Zhang and Prof. S. Osovski for their accepted paper in the journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids: THE DEPENDENCE OF THE TAYLOR-QUINNEY COEFFICIENT ON THE DYNAMIC LOADING MODE
June 15, 2017
Warm congratulations to Nofar Stivi (Daloya) who presented her M.Sc. research co-supervised by Dr. A. Sides
June 11, 2017
Warm congratulations to Yonathan and Galit on their paper in Macromolecules. The first of the coming series on "inverse-freezing" gels.
June 6, 2017
Warm congratulations to Eyal Avriel for his M.Sc. diploma