The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Arif Masud, John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2022 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award.
FYI our review article on "exploiting nonlinearity in phononic materials to enable nonlinear wave responses" was recently published in Acta Mechanica:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-021-03089-z
We are looking for multiple Ph.D. students with a background in solid and structural mechanics to work on the mechanics of slender and flexible structures. Some experience with machine learning and artificial intelligence will be helpful. At the very least, the candidate should be good with computer programming (ideally C/C++ and Linux environment). They should have the confidence and a track record to quickly master analytical and software tools in new fields. The Ph.D. students will work in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment.
The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is pleased to announce and congratulate
Dr. Kedar Kirane, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University;
Dr. Shelly Zhang, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical and Science Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to see the preprint of our new paper "Accretion and Ablation in Deformable Solids with an Eulerian Description: Examples using the Method of Characteristics" which will appear in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. Recent work has proposed an Eulerian approach to the surface growth problem, enabling the side-stepping of the issue of constructing the reference configuration. However, this raises the complementary challenge of determining the stress response of the solid. To resolve this, the approach introduced the elastic deformation as an additional kinematic descriptor of the added material, and its evolution has been shown to be governed by a transport equation. Here, we applied the method of characteristics to solve concrete simplified problems motivated by surface growth in biomechanics and manufacturing (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10812865211054573)
Brno, Czech Republic, 6th-10th Feb. 2022
Participation in the winter school is free! (both in presence or online)
A fully funded Ph.D. position is available in the Computational Biomechanics and Solid Mechanics Laboratory at Villanova University. The position is available as early as Spring 2022 until filled. The candidate will work on multiscale computational modeling of bone fracture. Candidates with a strong background and interest in biomechanics, solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, and computational modeling are encouraged to apply.
