News & Events

January 21, 2016
Warm congratulations to Eyal Avriel who presented his M.Sc. Seminar
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21/1/16: Warm congratulations to Eyal Avriel who presented his M.Sc. Seminar on "Investigating strength characteristics of OFHC copper at very high strain rates using magnetically driven expanding cylinders”, under the joint supervision of Prof. D. Rittel and Dr. Z. Lovinger
January 18, 2016
Dr. K. Shemtov-Yona presented her work on dental implants at CENIM
01/16: Dr. K. Shemtov-Yona presented her work on the mechanical reliability of dental implants at CENIM (National Center for Metallurgical Investigations, Madrid),  and at the Biomedical Institute of Valencia, Spain.
December 13, 2015
A warm welcome to Rafi Fadida who joins the DFL as a PhD student. Rafi will work on THI3D-printed titanium alloy
December 13, 2015
A warm welcome to Rafi Fadida who joins the DFL as a PhD student. Rafi will work on THI3D-printed titanium alloy.
November 25, 2015
Under Extreme Conditions - The Israeli Conference on Materials and Mechanical Systems will be held in the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology on November 25, 2015
November 23, 2015
Congratulations to Oren Rijensky who presented his results on “Hydrodynamic loading of polyurea-coated aluminum plates”.
November 20, 2015
D. Rittel has been made Fellow of the ASME
ASME Fellow certificate
November 9, 2015
Prof. Rittel is awarded the Angiola Gili e Cataldo Agostinelli Prize in Torino.
August 2, 2015
Dr. Lovinger’s work finds a new artistic expression in New York. Selected pictures of his collapsing cylinders will be on display at the Labscapes exhibition
July 8, 2015
D. Rittel teaches a course on Failure of Materials at Beijing Institute of Technology
July 8, 2015
D. Rittel is appointed Associate Editor of the Chinese journal “Shock Waves and Explosions”, edited by the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics
July 7, 2015
Dr. K. Shemtov-Yona presents her research on Reshet B with Anat Dolev
June 18, 2015
Posted on Caltech’s Engineering and Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories websites
June 14, 2015
Congratulations to (soon to be Dr.) Michael Dolinski for his new paper, accepted in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
June 14, 2015
Prof. D. Rittel is the 2015 recipient of the prestigious Gili Agostinelli prize of the Torino Academy of Sciences, for his contributions in Applied Mechanics. The award will be conferred this coming november in Torino (Italy)