Cohen Mechanics Group

Excited to share our latest paper in JMPS! We present an alternative explanation of Gent & Park’s seminal experiments, offering a theoretical framework highlighting how interfacial cavitation and surface tension dictate failure at small length scales: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications Physics offering insights for "Egg Drop" competitions and how technical language shapes learning outcomes by detailing what we mean when we say an egg is strong, stiff, or tough:  nature.com/articles/s4200…

We're excited to share our work exploring the nonlinear Eshelby inclusion problem for soft materials, revealing how growing spheroidal inclusions approach a non-spherical asymptotic shape under large deformations--the isomorphic limit: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

We’re excited to share our new work capturing subtle, time-dependent changes in the mechanical properties of liver & gelatin. Our findings highlight evolving stiffness and fracture behaviors, emphasizing a need for new constitutive models. #ExperimentalMechanics #BiologicalTissue

We’re excited to present our latest work explaining the spread in measurement of PDMS elastic properties. Explore our findings and see what they could mean for future applications of this versatile material. #SoftMatter #PDMS

Prof. Tal Cohen has received the Arthur C. Smith Award. Established in 1996, this award recognizes a member of the MIT faculty for their meaningful contributions and devotion to undergraduate student life and learning. @CohenMechGroup advising.mit.edu/2024-uac-award…

It's almost the start or the semester and that can only mean one thing: the @MIT_CEE FPOP Egg Drop Competition is back! Only one team's egg survived, but everyone learned lessons in strength, energy dissipation, and designing for intentional failure.

Attention New England Mechanics community: NEW.Mech 2024 will be on Friday May 24th at Boston University — all are welcome and we hope to see you there!! Registration + more info: new-mech.github.io

Today’s the day! DM us for the zoom link to Chockalingam’s defense

The @CohenMechGroup headed by Prof. Tal Cohen viewed the 2024 total solar eclipse from MIT’s campus!

Happy #GreatAmericanEclipse day from the Cohen Mechanics Group!

@ProfRausch Thanks for sharing! We (grad students in control of the twitter) are all very proud of Prof Cohen! Team work makes the dream work!

Prof. Tal Cohen has been selected to receive the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. Congrats🎉 @MITMechE @CohenMechGroup cee.mit.edu/prof-cohen-sel…

What does it mean for frontal polymerization (FP) to be thermo-chemo-mechanically coupled? In our latest article we elucidate how stress can quench the propagation of curing in FP reactions, demonstrating why solid mechanics is vital for FP future work sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Prof Cohen gave an invited talk at the New England Complex Fluids Workshop today highlighting the importance of cavitation in solid materials. Thanks to @harvardmrsec for hosting another fruitful day!

This morning kicked off the fifth CEE Rising Stars workshop, bringing together 16 outstanding women who are the next generation of leaders in civil and environmental engineering. cee.mit.edu/rising-stars-w…

Successful end to @SocEngScience #SES2023 with this growing Solid mechanics family @MITMechE. Great presentations all around and fun interactions with colleagues in our mechanics community!

And that’s a wrap. @SocEngScience 2023 finished up today. We thoroughly enjoyed connecting with so many colleagues and friends this week. See everyone again soon!

@MIT_CEE @NaturePhysics Our co author Changhao Li presented this work at @SocEngScience this week as well. Track us down at the conference today to learn more about our findings.

New research published in @NaturePhysics from @CohenMechGroup and colleagues from Yale, investigates how mechanical confinement influences the growth of bacterial biofilm. nature.com/articles/s4156…