I would like to share our recent work published in Nature Communications.

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Location: Baltimore, MD

Job Description

The Artificial Organs Laboratory at the Department of Surgery of the University of Maryland seeks highly motivated individuals for one post-doctoral research associate positions in the following areas: blood compatibility and design/development of blood contacting medical devices.

Hi All,

We have published an interesting short article on void growth in dual phase titanium alloys. More detailed results are currently under review and will be reported in near future.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025619300801

Thanks,

Amir

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) Portuguese National Committee we have the pleasure to extend a warm welcome to everyone planning to attend the

3^rd International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI2019)

The third ICSI conference will take place on the beautiful Madeira Island, Portugal on 2 – 5 September 2019:

http://www.icsi.pt/

In the framework of the ERC project FricLess, there are various openings at the University of Padova in Italy: one for a PhD student (three years) and three for postdoctoral researchers.

The project involes building a multiscale model for contact, friction, and solid lubrication.

We are seeking for candidates that have experience with numerical simulations of the type of molecular dynamics, dislocation dynamics, crystal plasticity, finite elements.

Dear Colleagues:  the 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science will be hosted by Washington University in St. Louis on October 13-15, 2019. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a Symposium (7.3) to address recent experimental, computational, theoretical and manufacturing advances in the research area of Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials.

I came across a very interesting paper in Engineering Fracture Mechanics about a year ago. It gives some new results of stochastic aspects of fatigue. The paper is:

”On the distribution and scatter of fatigue lives obtained by integration of crack growth curves: Does initial crack size distribution matter?” by M. Ciavarella, A. Papangelo, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol 191 (2018) pp. 111–124.

Matthew P. O'Donnell, Jonathan P. Stacey, Isaac V. Chenchiah, Alberto Pirrera

Our group is part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Techion – Israel Institute of Technology, located in Haifa, Israel.

We employ theoretical and experimental tools to understand the relations between the micro-structure and the macroscopic response of soft materials. Materials of interest include electro-active polymers, 3D printed lattice structures, biopolymers, and gels.