Vacancies exist for high calibre one master or one PhD student to join the Innovative Design and Engineering Analysis Laboratory at York University, starting immediately.
The position’s primary area of research will focus on shape and topology optimization 

Requirement:
- Strong background in numerical simulations, finite element analysis, computational solid mechanics
- Excellent programming skills and experience with high performance computing
- Proficiency in English, good written and verbal communication skills

Professor Ahmed Elbanna from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected to receive the 2019 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for the paper "On the role of the plaque porous structure in mussel adhesion: implications for adhesion control using bulk patterning", Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 85, #121003, 2018.  The paper is attached.

I would like to share our recent work published in Physical Review Letters.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.205502

Shuze Zhu and Harley T. Johnson

Nanoscale, in press, 2018, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2018/nr/c8nr06269b

Shuze Zhu, Nikolaos Lempesis, Pieter J. in ‘t Veld, and Gregory C. Rutledge

Macromolecules, in press, 2018, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01922

Materials Today, in press, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2018.09.001

Yanan Chen, Yilin Wang, Shuze Zhu, Kun Fu, Xiaogang Han, Yanbin Wang, Bin Zhao, Tian Li , Boyang Liu , Yiju Li , Jiaqi Dai , Hua Xie , Teng Li , John W. Connell , Yi Lin, Liangbing Hu

The Society of Engineering Science (SES) oversees several awards and honors to members and eminent scholars of the field. Below are the 2019 distinguished award winners!

Cemal Eringen Medal

Prof. Evelyn Hu, Harvard University

Citation: "For seminal contributions at the intersection of semiconductor electronics and photonics, and leadership in nanoscale science and engineering."

W. Prager Medal

Prof. Horacio Espinosa, Northwestern University

The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering and the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology are seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of space habitat systems. The position is expected to be a joint appointment between both schools. Multidisciplinary collaboration with related research groups and colleges at Georgia Tech is highly encouraged.

Wrinkles commonly occur in uniaxially stretched rectangular hyperelastic membranes with clamped-clamped boundaries, and can vanish upon excess stretching. Here we develop a modeling and resolution framework to solve this complex instability problem with highly geometric and material nonlinearities. We extend the nonlinear Foppl-von Karman thin plate model to finite membrane strain regime for various compressible and incompressible hyperelastic materials.

Rajat Arora        Amit Acharya

Stressed dislocation pattern formation in crystal plasticity at finite deformation is demonstrated for the first time. Size effects are also demonstrated within the same mathematical model. The model involves two extra material parameters beyond the requirements of standard classical crystal plasticity theory. The dislocation microstructures shown are decoupled from deformation microstructures, and emerge without any consideration of latent hardening or constitutive assumptions related to cross-slip. Crystal orientation effects on the pattern formation and mechanical response are also demonstrated. The manifest irrelevance of the necessity of a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient, a plastic distortion tensor, and the choice of a reference configuration in our model to describe the micromechanics of plasticity as it arises from the existence and motion of dislocations is worthy of note.