In 2018, the annual workshop will take place at Georgetown University in Washington DC (USA), 3-5 December.
After Cambridge-US (2011), Zürich (2012), Monte Verita (2013), San Sebastian (2014), Cambridge-US (2015), Paris (2016) and Athens (2017), we look...
Thomas Pezeril - CNRS - MIT Researcher
E-mail: pezeril@mit.edu / thomas.pezeril@univ-lemans.fr
Abstract: Since the discovery of ultrafast lasers in the 90’s, pulsed lasers have been used to excite and detect ultrasound with corresponding frequencies up to the THz range. At this ultimate frequency range, the ultrasonic wavelength is on the order of a couple of nanometers only, that makes them su...
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Engineering Mechanics Institute ConferenceWELCOME !!
Dear Friends and Colleagues
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, site of the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2018 (EMI 2018) co-organized by M.I.T., C.N.R.S and the University...
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The arrangement of a city’s streets and buildings plays a crucial role in the local urban heat island effect, which causes cities to be hotter than their surroundings, researchers have found. The new finding could provide city planners and officials with new ways to influence those effects. Some cities, su...
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(Transmission) Electron Microscopy for Multi-Scale Porous Materials - A. BARONNET Part 1...
MIT President L. Rafael Reif joined a high-level delegation of French officials at MIT on Friday to sign an agreement extending the research partnership behind MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Envi...
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An MIT-led team has defined the nanoscale forces that control how particles pack together during the formation of cement “paste,” the material that holds together concrete and causes that ubiquitous construction material to be a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. By controlling those forces, the re...
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While hydrocarbon expulsion from kerogen is certainly the key step in shale oil/gas recovery, the poromechanical couplings governing this desorption process, taking place under a significant...
Single-walled carbon nanotubes are hollow cylinders that can grow centimeters long via carbon incorporation at the interface with a catalyst. They display semiconducting or metallic...
This article presents a nonequilibrium thermodynamic theory for the mean-field precipitation, aggregation, and pattern formation of colloidal clusters. A variable gradient energy coefficient and...
Cement paste is a multiphase material of complex chemistry, of which 60% by volume is typically composed of calcium–silicate–hydrates (C–S–H), the phase that lends the material its strength and...
Using particle dynamics simulations, we investigate the strength and microstructure of agglomerates of wet frictional particles subjected to axial compression. The numerical model accounts for the...
A critical challenge in reducing anthropogenic impacts on the environment is to decrease the carbon footprint of the cement industry. A key concern in the search for more sustainable cement...
Structural damping, that is the presence of a velocity dependent dissipative term in the equation of motion, is rationalized as a thermalization process between a structure (here a beam) and an...
A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Approach (GCMC) is proposed for the fracture analysis of solids discretized as mass points and bond interactions. In contrast to classical load-driven fracture...
Cesium-137 is a common radioactive byproduct found in nuclear spent fuel. Given its 30 year half life, its interactions with potential storage materials-such as cement paste-is of crucial...
Volume changes in chemically reactive materials, such as hydrating cement, play a critical role in many engineering applications that require precise estimates of stress and pressure developments...
