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Prof. Zdenek Bazant (Northwestern University, USA) sent me a copy of the plenary lecture he delivered at Int. Conf. on Damage Mechanics 4 at LSU on May 15, 2023, to be posted. The lecture is about a critique of the theoretical inconsistencies in the Phase Field and Peridynamics techniques. Remarkably interesting talk that will create a significant discussion about the validity of these methods..

Dear Applied Mechanics Peers and Friends,

It is that time again. We are looking for one of you brilliant minds to be the next program director of the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal was established in 2022 by the Applied Mechanics Division and recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of mechanics through research, practice, teaching and/or outstanding leadership. For details, please go to: Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal

The workshop takes place on-line only on June 14 from 2 PM CET. It is intended to serve as a networking event, where interested researchers present their focused domain. The subsequent brainstorming will help us to evaluate whether there is a will for a broader cooperation among the participants, and if to transform this workshop into something more regular.

If you do not feel strong enough to present, you are still invited to join us - simply let me know to my e-mail address to get the access to the workshop. No fee requested.

The Nguyen Lab and Elbert Lab invite applications for a postdoctoral position in data-intensive modeling and analysis of architected polymer blends, starting as soon as possible. The position is part of a funded NSF-DMREF grant to create Materials Architected by Adaptive Processing in accord with Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) goals.

There are multiple openings for postdoc positions on the intersection of Computational Mechanics and Scientific Machine Learning in the Bouklas Lab (https://blogs.cornell.edu/bouklaslab/) in Cornell MAE.

The work will focus on automated constitutive modeling, solution of PDEs and software development.

Researcher Positions at Microstructure Solid Mechanics Group, State Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

I. Introduction to the Team

Dear colleagues,

We, the AMD IiSS Technical Committee organizers, are pleased to continue our long-standing tradition of arranging a symposium on "Instabilities in Solids and Structures" at the annual ASME-International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE).  The Congress this year will be held in New Orleans, LA during the period of October 29-November 2, 2023. 

We're excited to share the news that we have a Postdoc opening in our fleXLab (Flexible Structures Laboratory) at EPFL in Switzerland. This position is focused on the mechanics of slender structures. We appreciate the unique perspectives that individual research interests bring, so we'll work to align the specifics of the research project with the successful candidate's interests.

An article published in the latest edition of Futurities - Simulation-Based Engineering & Sciences Magazine, discusses in detail about using Virtual Material Testing and AI to predict the material properties of complex microstructures that are difficult to measure in practice.

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#Apply for a joint #PhD with IIT Ropar and IIT Mandi on "Mechanical characterization of discontinuities in material's microstructure "

The microMechanics of Deformation Research Group (mMOD) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University is seeking a Post-Doctoral Associate to perform research as part of an NSF CAREER award project aimed at understanding the fundamentals of fracture in metals. Research tasks will include the development of a machine learning framework for training surrogate models which couples with the finite element method and analyzing large atomistic simulation datasets.

We are currently seeking a highly motivated candidate for a Post-Doc position in the School of Packaging at MSU. The focus of this position will be on studying the multi-axis vibrations experienced by packages during transportation. This research will involve utilizing various tools and techniques such as a multi-axis shaker, acceleration sled, FEM simulations, nonlinear models, and more. To be considered for this position, the ideal candidate should possess the following qualifications:

For a given class of materials, universal displacements are those displacements that can be maintained for any member of the class by applying only boundary tractions. In this paper we study universal displacements in compressible anisotropic linear elastic solids reinforced by a family of inextensible fibers. For each symmetry class and for a uniform distribution of straight fibers respecting the corresponding symmetry we characterize the respective universal displacements. A goal of this paper is to investigate how an internal constraint affects the set of universal displacements.

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead.

Advanced Materials Research Centre

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) is a publicly funded research institute, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It is home to a diverse community of leading scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and researchers from across the globe, transforming problems and roadblocks into pioneering research and technology prototypes that help move society ahead.

Advanced Materials Research Centre

See Abhishek Arora's blog:

1. Mechanics of micropillar confined thin film plasticity

2. Interface-dominated plasticity and kink bands in metallic nanolaminates

See Siddharth Singh's blog:

Modeling of experimentally observed topological defects inside bulk polycrystals

See Uditnarayan Kouskiya's blog:

Hidden convexity in the heat, linear transport, and Euler's rigid body equations: A computational approach

This work deals with the hydrodynamic interaction of two parallel circular cylinders, with identical radii, immersed in a viscous fluid initially at rest. One cylinder is stationary while the other one is imposed a harmonic motion with a moderate amplitude of vibration. The direction of motion is parallel to the line joining the centers of the two cylinders. The two dimensional fluid–structure problem is numerically solved by the Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian method implemented in the open-source CFD code TrioCFD.

A postdoctoral researcher position is available beginning July 1, 2023 in Professor Ryan Hurley’s laboratory (http://hurley.me.jhu.edu) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute at the Johns Hopkins University.

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to read our latest paper published in ACS Nano: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c01223