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2020 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award – Professor Narayana R. Aluru

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The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Narayana R. Aluru, Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as recipient of the 2020 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award. This award includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.

2020 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award - Professor Xuanhe Zhao

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The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Xuanhe Zhao, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as the recipient of the 2020 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.  This award includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium.

Computational Geomechanics mini-symposium at EMI 2020 New York

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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to cordially invite you to the Computational Geomechanics mini-symposium at the ASCE EMI 2020 Conference, which will take place on May 26–29, 2020 at Columbia University in NYC. The abstract submission is now open until January 15, 2020 (Link: https://submissions.emi2020.org). The mini-symposium description is given below:

Postdoctoral and PhD Positions supported by ERC Starting Grant Horizon2020 in Germany Hannover University

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Position description: Four postdoctoral research fellows and two PhD positions are now open for ERC Starting Grant wth focus on nano energy harvester. The project is financially supported by ERC Starting Grant from Horizon2020.

Plane stress Abaqus UMAT

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Hello everyone,

I have created a UMAT code for J2 elasto-plasticity with isotropic hardening for 3D solid elements.

At this point I would like to support also plane stress shell elements. What changes in the code are

suggested? The already implemented code, takes as input the strain tensor at time tn and the strain

increment tensor and updates the stress at time tn+1 and calculates the material Jacobian and 

achieve quadratic convergence. The stress and strain tensors are manipulated as 6x1 vectors and the 

Abaqus Explicit: difference in TEMP, STRESS and PEEQ computation between adiabatic and coupled

Submitted by Olivier Pantalé on

Hi,

I have the two following INP files for Abaqus where the only difference is that in one case I'm using a CAX4R element on the other case, I'm using a CAX4RT element. Solver has been changed from one case to the other one.
This is the only difference between both cases.

Simulation time is small, so that conduction is negligible.

BUT: results in terms of Strains, Stresses and Temperatures differs.
T = 164.1°C for CX4R
T = 323.9°C for CAX4RT

The difference is Huge, what's Wrong ?

Olivier

A PhD position in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

Submitted by CHEN XIAO_NTU on

Topic

Machine learning-based approaches for modeling and numerical simulation of advanced materials.

Preferred background

Bachelor and/or Master Degrees in Mechanics and/or Material Science.
Strong multidisciplinary background with interest and experience in:
Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Deep learning;
Material characterization, Microstructure analysis, Mechanics of materials;
Computer programming, Parallel and/or distributed computing.

To apply

Novel Metamaterials based on Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces

Submitted by Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub on

Recently, there has been a growing interest in investigating the multi-functional properties of novel types of metamaterials, metastructures, and metacomposites based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS). TPMS have been discovered more than 160 years ago and thanks to additive manufacturing (3D printing) they become reality only recently and opend the doors for several applications.

Structures loaded with a force acting along a fixed straight line, or the “Reut’s column problem”

Submitted by Davide Bigoni on

How to provide a structure with a force lying on a fixed line?
We provide the answer to this question in our paper: Bigoni and Misseroni (2019) Structures loaded with a force acting along a fixed straight line, or the “Reut’s column problem”.
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Enjoy watching our video below (would you have trouble playing video on YouTube, click here to watch it).

PhD position available in systems engineering with support- George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia)

Submitted by ali_beheshti1 on

A PhD student is sought to perform research on systems engineering theory relying on the mathematics of probability theory, decision theory, game theory and social choice theory.  The student will be supported under an NSF grant in the Mechanical Engineering department of George Mason University and work with Dr. George Hazelrigg.  If interested, please contact Dr. Hazelrigg at ghazelri [at] gmu.edu (ghazelri[at]gmu[dot]edu).