Tedori-Callinan Lecture: “Resist Fatigue by De-concentrating Stress”
October 12, 2021 at 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Share this event
Organizer
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Phone:
215-746-1818
Email:
meam@seas.upenn.edu
Website:
View Organizer Website
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.

