Seminars Archive
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Methyl cellulose (MC) is a unique material that displays a liquid-solid phase transition when heated. Methyl cellulose is a biocompatible material and it is FDA approved. The manufacturing process of the gel is cheap and it is widely used in...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building , Room 217
Theoretical characterization and control of transient, resonant responses of many real mechanical systems encounter significant challenges due to their essential nonlinearity. Strong nonlinearity manifests in systems with intermittently interacting components such as granular materials, structures with breathing cracks, interlocking materials,...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Underactuated wheeled vehicles are commonly studied as nonholonomic systems with periodic actuation.Twistcar is a classic example inspired by a riding toy, which has been analyzed using a planar model of a dynamical system with nonholonomic constraints. Prior analytical investigations of...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
My research focused on networks of bistable elements. In the first part of the seminar, I will present an investigation into the fundamental physics of viscous flow injected into a bistable hyperelastic chamber. We examine the mechanics of viscous flow...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building , Room 217
The talk will cover the following three main topics associated with the acceleration-driven hydrodynamic instabilities and their suppression by elastic forces: Atomization in forensic applications. Reopening dentistry after COVID-19. Liquid films (cavities) subject to pressure difference in the surrounding gas...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Permanent creases on thin-walled objects are imprinted lines on which there is local plastic deformation. Geometrically constrained creases are often leveraged as multi-stable elements with applications in various fields, including robotic actuators, energy storage and release, and meta-materials. Using curved...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Stochastic nanoporous gold (NPG) structures gained significant interest in the research community due to their advantages as a lightweight structure with a high surface-to-volume ratio. These properties underscore the importance of optimizing and tailoring the mechanical properties of NPG structures...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building Room 217
The Twistcar is an underactuated toy vehicle composed of two segments: a primary segment on which the child sits, and a secondary segment on which the steering wheel is mounted. Each segment has an axle with wheels. This vehicle is...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Fixed-wing aircraft stall – characterized by a sudden loss of lift – is still a prevalent problem in general aviation, accounting for 36% of loss-of-control accidents and more than 40% of all fatalities. Several wind tunnel studies have demonstrated stall-control...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
The Technion Internal Combustion Engines Lab has previously developed a Combined Electro-Thermo-Chemical Cycle (CETC), which is an innovative hybrid propulsion cycle comprising a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC), an internal combustion engine (ICE), and a reformer for thermochemical recuperation of waste...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
The Transient Fluid Mechanics Laboratory was established three years ago with the goal of studying complex transient phenomena in fluid mechanics. Our primary focus has been to explore intricate fluid dynamics using cutting-edge experimental techniques and advanced data processing methods....
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Auditorium 1
Accurate simulations of high-speed flows require high-resolution numerical algorithms. This study developed a class of new high-order numerical schemes and a GPU-accelerated solver to solve the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on curvilinear geometries, including dynamically deforming meshes. Schemes of 4th and...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
Additively manufactured lattice structures are porous light-weight structures with mechanical properties that are dictated both from the topology and the parent material properties. These light-weight structures are attracting attention in various application in various field of engineering, and among their...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
The inverse kinematics (IK) of redundant robotic manipulators can be particularly challenging to solve algebraically, especially when dealing with uncertain information about the manipulator link lengths or target location. Potential functions offer a method to obtain numerical solutions for various...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
This research concerns the mechanical behavior and failure of pig rib bones in order to find a correlation between the failure region(s) and the morphological characteristics. The rib is specifically selected due to the clear separation between the cortical (outer,...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
In recent years, 3D printing has become a game changing method for millimeter and centimeter scale prototyping. However, its adoption for microfabrication processes in MEMS and transducer applications remains limited. A primary challenge hindering the relevance of additive manufacturing in...
Location: D. Dan and Betty Kahn Building, Room 217
The non-elastic mechanical response of most materials occurs through impulsive and discrete events known as avalanches, which arise when a microscopic local region rapidly deforms, leading to a macroscopic strain change. Due to their transient nature and small spatial and...
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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