I wrote a Windows tool for postprocessing finite-element results: figures, animations, and reproducible scenes from EnSight Gold, VTK, ParaView, and STL files.
Everything it draws is vector-based — contours, Gouraud shading, PDF export included. No bitmaps on sight.
Multi-step transient analyses, tensor fields, and symmetry replication are supported.
Free, self-contained, documented:
https://web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/ist24806/
Feedback welcome.
The Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, invites applications for a two-year postdoc position in plant physiology and molecular biology of EV-based plant-microbe communication. The position is part of the EU-funded EVOLVE project and focuses on controlled-environment biological testing of extracellular vesicles as a non-GMO platform for steering plant performance and plant-microbe interactions.
This is a two-year fixed-term postdoc position from 1 November 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
August 10-13, 2026
Live Online
Instructors: Professor John Dolbow and Professor Oscar Lopez-Pamies
Applied AI for Materials Discovery
July 27–30, 2026, Live Online
Instructor: Prof. M.J. Buehler (MIT)
We are pleased to announce research and PhD opportunities in Bioinspired Engineering and Technologies, with a particular emphasis on green energy production and robotics.
Our group is currently working on several challenging and high-impact areas, including:
#1. Bio-signal-based realistic control of prosthetics for rehabilitation
#2. Bio-inspired wind turbine blade design for energy harvesting from moving vehicles
#3. Research on e-VTOL systems
#4. Development of UUVs for ocean plastic cleaning
A variational minimum principle for linear elastodynamics of a possibly heterogeneous material without a stored energy function is developed. It involves a change of variables to dual fields, and results in a degenerate elliptic Euler-Lagrange system, even when the primal elastodynamics is hyperbolic. Uniqueness assertions for the dual dynamic and static problems and implications of the degenerate ellipticity are sketched. Some implications pertaining to heterogeneous materials and ones with indefinite elastic moduli are discussed.
We are pleased to share our recent JMPS paper, “Graph-Field Framework for Fracture Mechanics of Architected Lattice Materials.” (link: 10.1016/j.jmps.2026.106729)
The University of Vermont (UVM) invites applications for an immediate, fully funded Ph.D. position to work with Professor Jihong A. Ma. The position focuses on cutting-edge research in computational organic chemistry and polymer science, with an emphasis on developing fundamental, predictive understanding of structure–property relationships in organic molecules and polymeric materials.
2026 International Conference on Power, Electrical and Energy Systems Engineering (PEESE 2026) will be held in Chengdu, China during October 31 - November 1, 2026. It is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Chengdu Section; organized by School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. 该会议由电子科技大学主办; 电子科技大学机械与电气工程学院承办；IEEE和IEEE成都分部共同赞助。
Elastomers are among the most familiar and most deceptive solids. They stretch enormously, recover their shape, and appear forgiving in a way that glass or ceramic never would. Yet they are held together by covalent bonds whose intrinsic strength is measured in GPa. The macroscopic strength of rubber-like networks, however, is usually only in the MPa range. How does a material made of very strong bonds become so weak?
