Dear Colleagues,
We wanted to alert you for the call for nominations of the awards of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which are due on September 15th, 2021.
EML Webinar (Season 2) on 16 July 2021 will be given by Dae-Hyeong Kim on Unconventional Bioelectronoics for Heart and Brain Diseases. Host: John A. Rogers, Northwestern University
Time: 9:30 am Boston, 2:30 pm London, 9:30 pm Beijing on 14 July 2021
Zoom Link: https://ter.ps/EMLWebinarS2
Live streaming on YouTube: https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV
We review some recent approaches to modeling failure and fracture of soft materials. By failure we mean the onset of damage via material instability. By fracture we mean further localization of damage into cracks with their subsequent propagation.
Jessica McWilliams (jmcw [at] seas.upenn.edu), Wei-Hsi Chen (weicc [at] seas.upenn.edu), Cynthia Sung (crsung [at] seas.upenn.edu)
General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, USA
There is a PhD opening in the Mechanics of Soft Materials Lab (https://www.msm.seas.ucla.edu/) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. The opening is to be filled in 2021 fall, 2022 winter or 2022 fall quarter. The successful candidate is expected to work on modeling, simulations, and experiments of soft materials.
Dear Members of the Mechanics and Materials Communities,
You may have known about the efforts of the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program of the National Science Foundation on revitalizing the practice of verification and validation (V&V) of computational models as a rigorous and indispensable step in the scientific investigative process.
Professor Yonggang Huang from Northwestern University is elected as an Honorary Member (2021) of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Each year ASME elects no more than 5 honorary members. Since 2000 the mechanicians elected to the honorary members include:
Research Fellow in High Resolution Microscopy of Engineering Alloys
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in High Resolution Microscopy of Engineering Alloys.
Post Doctoral Researcher in Computational Solid Mechanics
Applications are invited for a post doctoral researcher in computational solid mechanics.
How can shear loading rate affect the soft adhesive contact area? A new blog post in tribonet.org discusses the problem following the paper "Papangelo, Antonio. (2021). On the Effect of Shear Loading Rate on Contact Area Shrinking in Adhesive Soft Contacts. Tribology Letters. 69." just published in Tribology Letters.
