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Tedori-Callinan Lecture: “Resist Fatigue by De-concentrating Stress”

October 12, 2021 at 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Date: October 12, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Event Category: Seminar
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    Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
    Phone: 215-746-1818
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    Zoom – Email MEAM for Link peterlit@seas.upenn.edu

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    Most materials suffer from a disease: fatigue. Symptoms include degradation of properties and growth of cracks under cyclic stretch. These materials are unfit for applications involving prolonged and cyclic loads. A crack grows in a material because the crack tip concentrates stress. Recently, we have been developing fatigue-resistant materials by de-concentrating stress, through mechanisms at either microstructural or molecular scale. This talk describes the mechanics and implementations in materials.