OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Matter is ever-changing, its form developing in a series of nested processes which complete on the time scales on which mechanisms operate. This talk concerns behaviour in the regime beyond yield which encompasses a range of amplitudes and responses in which condensed phase materials access states in which they bond in a different manner such that strength is not defined. The driving forces are vast and awe-inspiring whilst the different rates of change observed in operating processes are on scales that span many orders of magnitude. A case study concerns the extreme conditions brought about by the infamous Chicxulub impact event. This talk spans materials science, mechanical engineering, physics, physical chemistry and geophysics to trace the common threads connecting bombs, desk toys and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
