Dear Colleagues, 

We cordially invite you to submit an abstract for the mini-symposium on “Controlling Wave Propagation Via Architected Structures And Metamaterials: Theory, Simulation, Fabrication, And Experimentation” at the 57th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science to be held at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 28-30, 2020. 

Deadline for short abstract submission - February 15, 2020

https://lnkd.in/dQUgfhv

Dear Colleauges,

Peridynamics is a new continuum mechanics formulation and it is especially very suitable for modelling crack initiation and propagation. The importance of cracks in our daily life and how peridynamics can be useful for analysing cracks are highlighted at BBC News Scotland. For the details of the story, please click on the link below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-51413801

Best Regards,

Erkan

Burebi Yiming, Lei Wu, Mingqi Zhang, Zilong Han, Pei Zhao, Tiefeng Li, Zheng Jia*, Shaoxing Qu, Highly Stretchable Bilayer Lattice Structures that Elongate via in-Plane Deformation, Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, 1909473 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201909473)

Dear Colleagues,

Dear colleagues,

The Society of Engineering Science (SES) 57th Annual Technical Meeting will be held at Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, September 28-30, 2020 (https://ccaps.umn.edu/SES).

As part of this meeting, we are organizing a mini-symposium addressing the advances in polymer modeling and simulations under Track 7 - Soft, Active Materials and Applications in Soft Robotics.

We have an open PhD position on machine learning enhanced multi-scale modelling of textile composites. The following link provides more information about the project, and the details of the application process. Please keep in mind that only applications sent through the online application system will be evaluated.

Description of the PhD project, and how to apply

We are pleased to announce the below confirmed speakers for the 5th International Conference on BioTribology (ICoBT 2020), which will take place at the beautiful location of Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham, UK, 13-16 September 2020.

Plenary speaker:
Stanislav Gorb, Kiel University, Zoological Institute, Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Germany
Talk topic: From fly foot to the snake skin: adhesive and frictional phenomena on animal surfaces

Keynote speakers:

I am teaching advanced elasticity this semester. I have just written a google doc on my lecture on singular value decomposition of a homogeneous deformation. The PDF file of the doc is attached below