SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

Prof. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Automated discovery of material models

Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

Friday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior

Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution

Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.

Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy

Prof Zdenek Bazant .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

Prof Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

Prof Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

Prof Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective

Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment

Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Decarbonising Road Freight

Prof David Cebon CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 28 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning in Structural Dynamics

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Prof Keith Worden, Sheffield University.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Learning based multi-scale modeling

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Prof Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Model-Free Data-Driven Science: Cutting out the Middleman

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Prof Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology .

Zoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Oncotripsy: Selective ablation of cancer cells through tuned low-intensity pulsed ultrasound

Prof Michael Ortiz, Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Caltech.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Atomistically inspired origami

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 31 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakes

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

Prof Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Active Cell Mechanics

Tea and coffee & biscuits will be available after the seminar

Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Snaking, dripping, and fluttering of elastic rods

Professor Davide Bigoni,Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering University of Trento, Italy.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 08 December 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

A multiscale modelling strategy for virtual design of metallic alloys

Prof Javier LLorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, University of Madrid.

LR4, Engineering Department.

Friday 03 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce

Dr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc.

Oatley Meeting Room.

Friday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales

Prof Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Contacts and Fretting

Prof David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue

Professor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings

Professor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 05 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Counting with symmetry for structural analysis

Dr Simon Guest, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR2.

Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids

Prof. Michel W. Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 30 October 2015, 14:00-16:00

New functional surfaces: from science to application

Professor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 21 November 2014, 14:30-16:00

Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys

Professor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 24 October 2014, 14:30-16:00

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

Professor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Thursday 10 April 2014, 14:30-16:00

Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness

Professor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 07 March 2014, 14:30-16:00

Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research

Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 07 February 2014, 14:30-16:00

Nonlinearity in musical instruments

Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 24 January 2014, 14:30-16:00

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

Professor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 15 November 2013, 14:30-16:00

Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models

Professor René de Borst, University of Glasgow.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 15 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 01 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Aspects of science, technology and government

Professor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 16 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

"Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre - a new sort of stuff"

Professor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 26 October 2012, 14:30-16:00

Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfaces

Prof Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 10 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear

Prof Steve Elliott, University of Southampton.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 20 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion. From soft matter to biomimetics.

Prof Jean-Marc di Meglio, University of Paris Diderot.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:30-15:30

Design for environment and risk

Prof David Cebon, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 21 October 2011, 14:30-15:30

Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates

Professor Michael Thouless (University of Michigan).

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 13 May 2011, 14:30-15:30

Bacterial flagellar filaments: smart structure, smart protein

Professor Chris Calladine, Emeritus Professor CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 28 January 2011, 14:30-15:30

Fractals, Failure and Lightweight Structures

Robert Farr, Structured Materials and Process Science Department,.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 03 December 2010, 14:30-15:30

Tribology at the Smallscale: Learning from Nature

Prof John Williams (CUED).

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 12 February 2010, 14:30-15:30

Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting?

Tony Purnell (Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at CUED, Technical Consultant to the FIA, ex head of Jaguar F1 and Red Bull F1).

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 05 February 2010, 14:30-15:30

Tissue Contact Mechanics

Georges Debregeas: Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear Stresses

Dr Dov Sherman: Technion, Israel.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 30 October 2009, 14:30-15:30

Why is brake squeal so twitchy? Modelling and sensitivity studies of friction-driven vibration

Prof Jim Woodhouse.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 22 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Semi-Analytic Modeling of Micro-Defects in an Infinite Semi-Infinite Matrix

Please note this is to be held in the Oatley Seminar Room

Professor Leon Keer (Northwestern University).

Department of Engineering - Oatley Seminar Room.

Monday 23 March 2009, 14:15-15:30

Stability and Plasticity in Structural Frame Behaviour Analysis and Design: Seeking a Conceptual Framework for the Computer Age

Prof Michael Rotter.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 13 March 2009, 14:30-15:30

Domain Switching in Ferroelectric Perovskites and Applications

Kaushik Bhattacharya (CalTech).

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 23 January 2009, 14:30-15:30

Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration

Professor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 07 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Maths, Engineering and Industry

John Ockendon, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 10 October 2008, 14:30-15:30

A Methodology to Study Morphological Changes in Sclerotic Arteries, and Related Biomechanical Modelling and Simulation

Professor Gerhard Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 14 March 2008, 14:30-15:30

**CANCELLED** Flow Induced Excitation of Elastic Modes

Dr Shreyas Mandre, Harvard Unviversity.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 07 March 2008, 14:30-15:30

Crack tips' black box: Spectroscopic challenge to the strength of solids

Prof. Giuseppe Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 18 January 2008, 14:30-15:30

Future directions in structural dynamics

David Ewins.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 30 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

Mono-monostatic bodies: the story of the Gömböc

Gabor Domokos.

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 16 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

Materials Information: from testing machines to drug-eluting stents

Prof David Cebon (CUED) / Prof Mike Ashby (EDC).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 March 2007, 14:30-15:30

Biomechanics of the cytoskeleton: cell contractility and mechanosensitivity of cell adhesion

Dr Vikram Deshpande (CUED).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 26 January 2007, 14:30-15:30