A postdoctoral associate position is available in Dr. Baoxing Xu’s group in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia.

The successful candidate will work on a project related to nanomechanics and thermal transport of materials and functional structures and their coupling with applications in the design and manufacturing of electronic devices and structures.

Safer batteries, more efficient gas-turbine engines and solar cells, all require better-engineered nanocomposite materials. There is a limitation though -- how to investigate the fracture mechanics of these materials? Machine learning can help us overcome this limitation. Read more in our just-published paper: https://lnkd.in/e7dPBtx

Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML)  announces EML Webinar, freely open to anyone interested in mechanics around the world.

The inaugural EML Webinar will be given by Prof. John W. Hutchinson at Harvard University via Zoom meeting.

Title: New Developments in Shell Stability

Time/Date: 10 AM US Eastern Time on April 15, 2020

Several fully-funded PhD openings are available (flexible start date) in the lab of Dr Maresca at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (https://www.rug.nl/staff/f.maresca/).
The research topics will focus on the multi-scale mechanics modelling of the following problems:
a)    Hydrogen embrittlement in steels
b)    High entropy alloys
c)    Shape memory alloys

International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials XIII

13-18 September 2020 | DoubleTree by Hilton Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA, USA

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 15 May 2020.

Please submit your poster and oral abstracts on the topics listed below using the online abstract submission system. 

Conference topics:

Nowadays, titanium and its alloys are widely utilized in various industrial parts in such areas as the petrochemical, medical, and automotive industries; However, due to structural considerations, the application is problematic in cases of joining. Ti 4Al 2V is a new type of titanium alloy, that in point of the structure is near to the α-series, which have many applications in critical conditions (moisture, steam, temperature, etc.).

EMI, the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, announces the winners of prestigious mechanics awards:

https://www.asce.org/engineering-mechanics/news/20200403-emi-mechanics-award-recipients/

https://www.asce.org/engineering-mechanics/engineering-mechanics-institute/

De Baets, S., Denbigh, T.D.G., Smyth, K.M. et al. Micro-scale interactions between Arabidopsis root hairs and soil particles influence soil erosion. Commun Biol 3, 164 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0886-4

Dr. Yanqing Su's group in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Utah State University (USU) is looking for fully funded Ph.D. students in the field of materials in extreme environments using small-scale computational methods. Self-motivated individuals who have research experience in one or more of the following areas are strongly encouraged to apply for the Ph.D. positions in our group:

Our paper on the phase-field mixture theory of tumor growth is published in JMPS. The continuum model simulates significant mechano-chemo-biological features of avascular tumor growth in the various microenvironment, i.e., nutrient concentration and mechanical stress.

Faghihi, Feng, Lima, Oden, and Yankeelov (2020). A Coupled Mass Transport and Deformation Theory of Multi-constituent Tumor Growth. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 103936.