Author: Douglas Holmes
Congratulations: Gabriel Smith – Scientific Image Contest
Gabriel Smith, a LEAP student in ME@BU working in the MOSS lab won third place in the 2015 Mechanical Engineering Scientific Image Contest.
NEW.Mech 2015 @ BU
NEW.Mech is a one-day workshop that aims to bring together the New England Mechanics community with an interest in exploring new directions on the mechanics of materials and structures and share the latest advancements in the field. The workshop will be located at Boston University on October 3rd. As in other other years, there will […]
Congratulations: Behrouz Tavakol Defends his Dissertation
Dr. Behrouz Tavakol successfully defended his dissertation entitled, “Buckling at the Fluid – Soft Solid Interface: A Means for Advanced Functionality within Soft Materials”. Upon his defense, he was award his Doctorate in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech. Congratulations to Behrouz!
Paper: Growing Sheets into Shells in Soft Matter
Our manuscript entitled “Morphing of geometric composites via residual swelling” has been published in the Soft Matter. This work was authored by Matteo Pezzulla, and co-authored by Steven Shillig, Paola Nardinocchi, and Douglas Holmes. This work was also highlighted on Soft Matter’s inside cover: Understanding and controlling the shape of thin, soft objects has been […]
Paper: Falling Slinkys in JSV
Our manuscript entitled “Falling vertical chain of oscillators, including collisions, damping, and pretensioning” has been published in the Journal of Sound and Vibration. This work was authored by Raymond Plaut, and co-authored by Andy Borum, Douglas Holmes, and David Dillard. A recent topic of interest has been the “levitating Slinky”. The Slinky spring is held […]
MOSS@UCSB
Seminar: UCSB – Mechanical Engineering: Morphing of Slender Structures by Swelling – Prof. Douglas P. Holmes May 4th, 2015 https://me.ucsb.edu/events/me-seminar-morphing-slender-structures-swelling
MOSS@NIST
Seminar: National Institute for Standards and Technology – Polymers Division: Morphing of Slender Structures by Swelling – Prof. Douglas P. Holmes April 24th, 2015
News – NSF CAREER Award
NSF Engineering: Class of 2015 Early Career Engineers to Watch NSF Engineering boosts 146 early-career researchers with awards totaling $73M @NSF @NSF_ENG Research towards smart needles & autonomous structures begins with a buried elastica #CAREER pic.twitter.com/wt4NLsn63l — Douglas Holmes (@dpholmes) March 25, 2015 BU College of Engineering News: Newest ME Faculty Member Receives NSF CAREER […]
MOSS@APS March Meeting
The MOSS group presented research led by Matteo Pezzulla of Sapienz Universita di Roma on the “Morphing and Snapping of Plates and Shells via Swelling” at the APS March Meeting. Prof. Holmes organized and chaired a Focus Session entitled “Extreme Mechanics: Snapping, Jumping and Popping” with an Invited Talk by Dennis Kochmann of Caltech entitled […]
MOSS@Adhesion Society
The MOSS lab presented research by Anupam Pandey, done in collaboration with Suzie Protière, at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society in Savannah, GA. The talk was entitled “Elastocapillary Rise Between Swellable Beams”, and was presented in the “Soft III: Mechanics” track (More details)