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New non-woven paper in IJSS

New non-woven paper in IJSS

Our latest journal paper entitled “In-situ X-ray study of the deformation mechanisms of non-woven polypropylene” is now published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures. This paper was authored by PhD student Naigeng Chen, MS student Simge Uzun, and research scientist Margaret Koker.  X-ray scattering and micro computed tomography  were combined with uniaxial mechanical testing to investigate […]

Another Summer of Conferences

Prof Silberstein kicked off the summer at the annual Society for Experimental Mechanics conference where she gave of talk on non-woven mechanics focusing on work by PhD student Naigeng Chen. Along with with first author Elizabeth Jones, Prof Silberstein was presented the Hetenyi Award for best paper in Experimental Mechanics from the previous year. That same week […]