9th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM 9), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 27 Nov - 29 Nov 2017

Abstract

The proceedings contain 106 papers. The topics discussed include: hydrofoil manufacture with automated fiber placement; honeycomb energy absorbing device for improved falling object protection system in fire fighting tractors; Bragg-edge elastic strain tomography; a scaled boundary finite element based node-to-node scheme for 2D frictional contact problem; transitional negative stiffness and numerical modeling of failure of particulate material; finite element modeling of high-porosity open-cell metal foams using a digital framework; a comparison of thermoplastic materials prepared by 3D printing and injection molding; on evaluation of fatigue crack front shapes; and numerical analysis of cavitation about marine propellers using a compressible multiphase VOF fractional step method.