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Prof. Emilio Martínez-Pañeda Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, this year’s awardee, is currently delivering a heartfelt speech. He is expressing gratitude for the institutional support that enables organizations like SRUK/CERU to act as vital hubs of research, learning, and collaboration.

Today we celebrate the outstanding work of Spanish researchers in the UK, supported by SRUK/CERU Santander Fundación is recognising Prof. Martínez-Pañeda for his research into the mechanics of materials, helping develop sustainable energy that is key to tackling climate change.

What a great day for our student Theo, he passed his PhD viva, and his second paper was published in The Cryosphere: tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/55… European Geosciences Union Check it out! We show that accounting for the depth-dependency of ice properties has a notable impact on crevasse growth

📢New paper! We combine welding process modelling and coupled phase field simulations to predict when hydrogen transport pipelines will fail, revealing the role of hard, brittle regions in the HAZ. Just out in Materials & Design: doi.org/10.1016/j.matd… #hydrogen #netzero

We are hiring! We are looking for a postdoc to work on the mechanics of solid state batteries, as part of Faraday Institution 's SOLBAT grant. Available for 1 year but can be extended. Join us in beautiful Oxford! Link: eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-detai… #job #batteries Engineering Science, Oxford RTs appreciated!

💻->⚡️🌡️🏗️ in Nature Communications! Multiscale platform to optimize the design of 3D-printed conductive components with tunable thermal, electrical & mechanical properties. Fundación BBVA Emilio Martínez-Pañeda UC3M Imperial College London University of Oxford BCMaterials doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

📢New paper! Just out in Nature Communications. Together with Daniel García González's group, we develop a multi-scale computational framework capable of predicting and optimising the thermo-electro-mechanical behaviour of 3D-printed multi-functional materials: nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are organizing an IUTAM Symposium on Chemo-Mechanics this summer at Oxford and are bringing a very strong cohort of speakers. In addition to invited talks, there will be a poster session; see: chemomechanics.web.ox.ac.uk

More on our recent Nat Comm paper: eng.ox.ac.uk/news/optimisin… Engineering Science, Oxford Harris Manchester Imperial Civil and Environmental Engineering ECCOMAS Community UKACM SEMNI

Predicting hydrogen - material interactions such as transport and embrittlement made (much) easier! We just published a two-part paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.engf… & doi.org/10.1016/j.engf…) on how to achieve this with COMSOL. The associated codes are here: mechmat.web.ox.ac.uk/codes

We are hiring several undergraduate summer interns, kindly funded by UK Atomic Energy Authority, Henry Royce Institute and Faraday Institution, to work on problems spanning batteries, hydrogen and corrosion. All details on our website: mechmat.web.ox.ac.uk

Thanks to the generosity of IUTAM, we have funds to support the expenses (registration fees, lunch) of early career researchers who do not have enough funds to attend the symposium. If interested email [email protected] with abstract and motivation

New paper! We propose a simple model to predict Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) failures, for the first time resolving the interplay between porosity, corrosion and cracking. The last paper of Evzen's PhD thesis. Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s4152…

📢New paper! We present a new computational framework that allows predicting concrete corrosion under natural conditions (without an applied current), and where the location of cathodic and anodic reactions is a natural output of the model. Just out: doi.org/10.1016/j.elec…

📢New paper! We combine experiments and modelling to quantify hitherto unknown individual effects of pH and chloride concentration on the corrosion kinetics of Mg alloys for biomedical applications. Just out in Acta Biomaterialia: doi.org/10.1016/j.actb… #biocorrosion #phasefield

📢 New paper! We combine phase field fracture/fatigue with a new stochastic meshing strategy for rough surfaces to unravel the role that surface roughness has on fatigue life. Surface roughness and fatigue strength are correlated. See: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfa…

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