Metallic glass in bulk form is known to have superb strength and elastic response but very limited plastic deformation ability. Through machining the metaillinc glass into submicometer pillars, experiment found that metallic glass can actually sustain very large plastic doformation (see attached Figure).  The detail of this finding can be found in our most recent publication: Z. W. Shan et al, Plastic flow and failure resistance of metallic glass: Insight from in situ compression of nanopillars, Phys. Rev.

Hello from Adelaide, Australia.  I'm at the IUTAM Congress.  The big news today:  the 2012 IUTAM Congress will be held in Beijing.  The Chinese delegates made a brilliant bidding.  Among promised items are good food, low registration fee (which will pay for all lunches), National Conference Center in the Olympic Village, and a tour to the Great Wall (which is also included in the registration fee).  So start planning for the trip.

The 7th International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials will be held in Hyannis, Mass., USA, 14-19 September. Hyannis is situated 80 mi/130 km from Boston's Logan International Airport and is easily reached either by car or by public transport.

The full oral and poster programs, as well as registration details can be found on the conference website at www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com

A postdoctoral position is immediately available in the areas of multiscale/multiresolution formulations and analysis in computational mechanics/physics. The project entails investigation of stochastic upscaling techniques and derivations of reduced-order models. Interested applicants should preferably have backround in uncertainty modeling and/or statistical learning. Proficiency in scientific computing and programming is necessary.

Inquiries and applications (including a detailed CV with names of three references) should be directed to:

Postdoctoral Research Position – Computational Solid Mechanics Weapons and Materials Research Directorate (WMRD, US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD WMRD has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research associate to conduct research in high rate damage and failure of ductile and brittle materials. Researcher would be part of a team that includes scientists at WMRD/ARL and faculty and students in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at The Johns Hopkins University under a Cooperative Research Agreement.

In December 2006 the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Executive Committee approved a new technical committee, Committee on Fluid-Structure Interaction (CFSI). The CFSI is sponsoring 6 mini-symposia within Track 12 "Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids" of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, in Boston, October 31 - November 6, 2008. These 6 mini-symposia will have a total of 17 sessions and are titled:

We have studied experimentally and theoretically the response of randomly folded hyperelastic and elastoplastic sheets on the uniaxial compression loading and the statistical properties of crumpling networks. The results of these studies reveal that the mechanical behavior of randomly folded sheets in the one-dimensional stress state is governed by the shape dependence of the crumpling network entropy.

The deadline for early-bird registration, with a $50 saving, is 28 August 2008.  Please consider to register for the Applied Mechanics Division Honors & Awards Banquet to meet your friends, and to congratulate the winners.