The School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Nanyang Technological University is actively looking to recruit top-notch faculty members in all areas of Mechanical Engineering. Several different avenues, such as the Nanyang Assistant Professorship for attracting talented researchers with outstanding academic and research record, are available. 

Nanyang Assistant Professor (NAP)

Dear Colleagues,

Our paper on theory of photomechanical elastomers has been published in JMPS. We explored the interplay between mechanical stress, light-induced reaction, and large deformation in photoactive nematic elastomers. You can find 50 days' free access here: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bceu57Zjx1Q7

Photomechanical coupling in photoactive nematic elastomers

Ruobing Bai, Kaushik Bhattacharya

Please check our new article on beam to surface contact modeling, recently accepted in  Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113275 . We have used a previously reported dynamic corotational formulation and added frictional contact terms, which provide a fully consistent formulation.

The synergic combination of smart soft composites with kirigami/origami principles leads to self-deployable systems. To date, the development of soft deployable structures has largely been an empirical process. Focusing on the recently developed shape memory alloy (SMA)-based soft deployable structures, this paper describes an analytical model and a finite element (FE) numerical scheme to investigate deformation and deployment performance of this system.

Composites Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB) invites you to attend the Global Composites Experts Webinar series. The goal of the series is to accumulate the vast knowledge of composites that has been developed over the past 50 years and to make it available to the global composites community. The inaugural lecture entitled Digital Disruption of Composites Manufacturing and Design will be given by Prof. Anoush Poursartip on September 3rd 11am-12pm EDT. Please visit https://lnkd.in/g9mkRjk for more details.

The Department of Engineering (ENG) at Aarhus University is looking for an innovative and visionary Associate Professor in the Section of Mechanical Engineering. Aarhus University is a top-100 university and has made ambitious strategic investments to place ENG in direct competition with the global engineering elite. Therefore, the department is focusing on advancing its research and teaching capabilities in the area of sustainable design & manufacturing.

The position is available from January 1, 2021 or as soon as possible hereafter.

Research Focus

EML Webinar on 26 August 2020 will be given by Professor Xi-Qiao Feng, Tsinghua University via Zoom meeting. Discussion leader: Professor Wei Yang, Zhejiang University

Title: Dynamics of Collective Cells

Time: 7 am California, 10 am Boston, 3 pm London, 10 pm Beijing on 26 August 2020

Zoom Link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/271079684 

Zoom ID: 271 079 684

Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are a class of recently emerged smart materials whose moduli are largely influenced when exposed to an external magnetic field. The MREs are particulate composites, where micro-sized magnetic particles are dispersed inside a non-magnetic polymeric matrix. These elastomers are known for changing their mechanical and rheological properties in the presence of a magnetic field. This change in properties is widely known as the magnetorheological (MR) effect.