Location: The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (http://mie.njit.edu) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (http://www.njit.edu). 

Cyclic Plasticity of the As-Built EOS Maraging Steel: Preliminary Experimental and Computational Results

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/4/1232/htm

Jian Cheng, Zheng Jia*, Teng Li*, A constitutive model of microfiber reinforced anisotropic hydrogels: with applications to wood-based hydrogels, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 138 (2020) 103893 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103893)

I have a vacancy with my colleague Prof. Verstappen at the University of Groningen for a PhD student to work on the computational design of magnetically-driven soft robots (see details in the attached description). Candidates preferably have hands-on experience with finite element development and implementation. If you are interested, please send a CV before March 21 at p.r.onck [at] rug.nl.

An urgent annoncement for the PostDoc position (at the University of Haifa, Israel) for the FEM modelling project on hydrologically-triggerred  earthquakes and their aftershocks. The candidates with knowledge of solid mechanics (elastoplasticily) and poroelasticity (preferably) are invited to submit their applications asap.  Advanced fellowships is guaranteed.

Journal Club for March 2020: Molecular Simulation-Guided and Physics-Informed Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Viscoelasticity

Ying Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

1.       Introduction

MDPI- Sustainability:  Special Issue "Sustainability of Additive Manufacturing and 3D-printed Parts"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/AdditiveManufacturing_3D-printedParts

Submission deadline :30 June 2020

This is our recent work on the design of fatigue-resistant hydrogel adhesion. In this work, we show that fatigue-resistant hydrogel adhesion can be achieved by anchoring ordered nanocrystalline domains at the interface. This method is applicable to glass, ceramic, titanium, aluminum, stainless steel, and even elastomers including PU and PDMS. We also demonstrate its potential applications as endurant hydrogel coatings for versatile engineering materials with complex geometries.

Chiqun Zhang         Amit Acharya        Alan C Newell          Shankar C Venkataramani

 (in Physica, D)

Defects, a ubiquitous feature of ordered media, have certain universal features, independent of the underlying physical system, reflecting their topological, as opposed to energetic properties. We exploit this universality, in conjunction with smoothing defects by "spreading them out," to develop a modeling framework and associated numerical methods that are applicable to computing energy driven behaviors of defects across the amorphous-soft-crystalline materials spectrum. Motivated by ideas for dealing with elastic-plastic solids with line defects, our methods can handle order parameters that have a head-tail symmetry, i.e. director fields, in systems with a continuous translation symmetry, as in nematic liquid crystals, and in systems where the translation symmetry is broken, as in smectics and convection patterns. We illustrate our methods with explicit computations.

Preprint

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit your one-page abstract to our Symposium 8.3 Multiscale modeling of molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ mechanics for The 57th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES2020) 

Date & Location:

September 28-30, 2020  Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN