News & Events

One of the primary challenges in designing adhesively bonded structures is predicting when an adhesive or bonded interface will fail. Dr. Mark Oliver shared two case studies using COMSOL Multiphysics to predict the strength and improve the performance of adhesively bonded structures.

Dr. Mark Oliver spoke about “Optimizing Additively Manufactured Parts for Adhesive Assembly” at the Adhesion Society’s Annual Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ms. Allyson Hartzell participated in the FLEX/MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the MEMS and Sensors Industry Group.

Allyson Hartzell was invited to be a judge at the iMatSci Innovation Showcase, part of the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit. MRS describes the event as “a platform for technology leaders at universities, research laboratories and startup companies to demonstrate the practical applications of innovative, materials-based technologies.”

Dr. Matthew Hancock offered a webinar addressing modeling and design processes for lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip devices and other microfluidic systems. He discussed simulation methods and related tools and demonstrated how to set up an example model of a micropump with fully (two-way) coupled fluid-structure interaction.

Dr. Mark Oliver spoke about “Rate-Dependent Failure of Additively Manufactured Polymers,” discussing the importance of characterizing the mechanical behavior of additively manufactured polymers at impact strain rates, and presenting methods for getting high-quality data and share results.