Fracture mechanics suddenly provides a step forward to stop climate change. The blogger has often pictured us humans walking on earth, asking ourselves how to get sufficient energy without burning fossil oil and destroying forests. Earth has a crust that is 30 to 50 km thick. Below it, the temperature is 1 to 6 thousand degrees Celsius. We are on the outside of a thin shell and inside is mostly melted rock, forming a sphere with a diameter that is close to 13000 km. For someone seeing this from another solar system, our behaviour must seem strange and pathetic.

Wrinkling - Theoretical Foundation, Experimental Characterization and Numerical Modeling

This course is aimed at graduate students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers in electronics/biomedical/mechanical/civil engineering, materials science, biophysics and applied mathematics. It is also valuable for senior scientists and engineers in academia and industry interested in the fundamental theoretical aspects of wrinkling phenomena, their numerical simulation and experimental characterization.

A scheme for treating the Second Law of thermodynamics as a constraint and accounting for the approximate nature of constitutive assumptions in continuum thermomechanics is discussed. An unconstrained, concave, variational principle is designed for solving the resulting mathematical problem. Cases when the Second Law becomes an over-constraint on the mechanical model, as well as when it serves as a necessary constraint, are discussed.

Postdoctoral positions are available in the department of Structural Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in Prof. Semnani’s research group. We are looking for highly motivated and talented individuals with a recent PhD degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

 The positions are in the areas of computational mechanics, machine learning, geomechanics, material characterization and modeling, and composite materials.

A list of necessary qualifications is below:

We cordially invite you to submit your abstract to our mini-symposium (MS# 1005) for the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18), to be held in Chicago, IL, from July 20-24, 2025. Our mini-symposium, entitled “Recent Advances in Computational Methods and Theories for Multiphysics Challenges,” is described below. We would be honored if you could contribute to our mini-symposium.

Fully funded postdoc position 

There will be a mini-symposium titled “Modern Computational Methods in Soft Matter Mechanics " as part of 18^th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 2025) in Chicago (July 20-24, 2025). This mini-symposium focuses on modern methods at the intersections of computational sciences and soft matter mechanics, construed broadly. 

We are seeking multiple postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students to join our research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Florida State University. Our projects focus on the mechanics of architected materials and advanced lithium-ion batteries. For more information, please see the attached details.

Extreme Mechanics Letters is pleased to announce the Recipient of the 2024 EML Young Investigator Award