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First visit to “MidMechMat”: a Midwestern workshop on mechanics
Shab, Jiho, and Professor Dunn went up to Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) last week to present posters at the 4th annual workshop on Mechanics of Materials and Structures. The keynote speakers were excellent, Michael Ortiz from CalTech and Heinrich Jaeger from the University of Chicago, and we met many talented researchers working in all […]
New paper from Jiho: strengthening the complex fluid analogy
How does a high-water-content hydrogel surface respond to step changes in speed? Jiho measured the lubrication mechanics of a complex shear interface through tribo-rheometry to try and figure it out. Out of all the possible responses, we find a combined time-dependent and shear-thinning response, just like a complex fluid. Check it out for more details.
2018 STLE Annual Meeting Recap
We had a great time at STLE 2018 in Minneapolis. Both Shab and Jiho presented their work in the “Materials Tribology” track, and Chris, Prabhakaran, and Hao presented posters. Congrats to Chris on his poster award! Below you can see some of the nice contact area measurements he has been making over the past few […]
Prof Dunn participates in CRRC program review visit
We are happy to be a part of this joint center, with an exciting project building a dual-disk wear tester and studying the origins of steel wear in combined rolling/sliding conditions.
Maribel Talks Tribological Standards at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
Jiho and Erik present at the Midwest Experimental Mechanics Student Conference
Project in Hydrogel Surface Degradation supported by NSF
The NSF has awarded support to our project “Discovering the Mechanisms of Hydrogel Surface Weakening and Wear Under Applied Sliding Conditions.” Keep an eye out for exciting work and publications! *Also, we are hiring! Please inquire at <acd@illinois.edu>. Experience in soft matter and tribology preferred.
Maribel Delatorre selected to be ISUR scholar
Maribel will be working on creating a standard materials set and developing standards for microtribological experiments. Congrats! Learn about ISUR
The lab presents at STLE 2015
Erik, Jiho, and Enrique all presented recent work at the student poster session at the STLE Annual Meeting in Dallas TX! Here we are with many members of the Tribology academic extended family: