Back to work after a lovely ski trip in Colorado

🚀♻️Open positions thanks to #NSF and industry sponsors: imechanica.org/node/27122 keywords: #mechanics + #sustainability

Found this car at downtown Atlanta 😂

Rupert is confused by the Euler Disk

What a way to start summer vacation! (thanks to the early schedule of Georgia Tech)

The May 2024 iMechanica Journal Club features "Inverse Design of Mechanical Metamaterials with Nonlinear Properties", led by Bolei Deng 邓博磊. You are encouraged to read the post and contribute to the discussion by leaving a comment on the iMechanica page. imechanica.org/node/27227

Visualization of Euler's polyhedron formula: V - E + F = 2 or Vertices - Edges + Faces = 2 [🎞️ Beau Janzen / reason4math] x.com/i/status/17740…

Daedalus lab at Georgia Tech seeks a postdoc. Apply by emailing Prof. Athanasiou. Details here: imechanica.org/node/27302 #Postdoc #GeorgiaTech #Mechanics

Our follow-up paper on fracture of nonlinear networks is online, where we discuss how hybrid network with behave differently compared to ideal networks. Take away: a small portion of weaker strand can make the network even "tougher". sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My student brought homemade “turkey”cupcake on the last group meeting of this year 🦃🍰 Such a wonderful semester. And even better: winter is coming ⛷️☺️

Our recent publication in PRX unveils a universal scaling law to predict the fracture energy of polymer-like networks. This discovery opens up possibilities for designing mechanical metamaterials with unprecedented fracture resistance. Chase Hartquist Shu Wang 王澍 Xuanhe Zhao

PAMs in Action! Science Magazine Our paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Related perspective article: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Video source: youtu.be/Z-P7lfW-p-8?si… Video credit: Wenjie Zhou and Peter Holderness/Caltech

Skiing a double black run in the middle of a semester. Why not? 😂

Microsoft unveils Majorana 1: an error-resistant quantum computer built on topological qubits. We try to mimic Majorana Braiding using a fully mechanical metamaterial system—realizing a classical qubit analog and simulating single-qubit Clifford gates. journals.aps.org/prresearch/abs…

Can particle robots communicate—without electronics? GTaerospace In our recent work, we show how architected tentacle geometry enables meaningful communication purely through contact and vibration. Swarm intelligence, no circuits. doi.org/10.1002/aisy.2…