News Article Tag: mechanics/materials

Professor Elijah Kannatey-Asibu’s book, Principles of Laser Materials Processing, was published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. in April 2009. This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of the field of laser materials […]

ME Professor James Barber’s book Elasticity has recently been published in its third edition by Springer. The new edition features four additional chapters concerning topics such as variational methods and […]

ME Professor David Dowling is co-authoring the 5th edition of a graduate-level fluid mechanics textbook, P.K. Kundu, and I.M. Cohen, Fluid Mechanics, 4th Ed. (Academic Press, 2008). The textbook is […]

Oct. 4, 2007 ANN ARBOR, Mich.—By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that’s as strong as steel but lighter and […]

Managing heat is a major challenge for engineers who work on devices from jet engines to personal electronics to nano-scale transistors. A team led by a University of Michigan mechanical […]