Dear colleagues, 

we would like to make you aware of the topical session 

"Data driven materials science"

which is part of the MM program during the DPG Spring Meeting 2020. The latter takes place March 15-20, 2020, in Dresden.  

If you are performing experiments or simulations in this emerging field, you are most welcome to contribute your abstract. You can find the session at the bottom of the list "Themenbereiche" on the abstract submission webpage 

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to announce the 2019 recipients of the Haythornthwaite Grants. 

2019 Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants: 

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee selected the top five proposals for the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants, each to be awarded at $20,000. The five selected recipients are:

We are currently seeking to fill a position of a Research Fellow or Senior Research Fellow to contribute to a research project sponsored by EC H2020 project ‘Ecologically and Economically viable Production and Recycling of Li-ion Batteries’ (ECO2LIB) in the area of Computational Modelling of Damage in Li-ion batteries. Suitable background for candidates would include proficiency in numerical methods for simulations of crack/damage propagation, and sound background in chemo-mechanics.

For further details please see: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BWT303/research-fellow-or-senior-research-fe…

Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots: Design (Code), Applications and Future Directions

This post was adopted from a News & Views by Zhao and Kim recently published on Nature [1].

Please see the attached flyer from Editor-in-Chief Ioannis Chasiotis. 

Dear all, 

Qiming Wang (USC), Lihua Jin (UCLA) and myself (UCSD) will organize 1st southern california mechanics workshop. Please see the flyer attached. 

All the best, 

shengqiang

The Musculoskeletal Imaging and Orthopaedic Biomechanics (MIOB) Laboratory at the University of Vermont is seeking a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering to start in the Fall semester of 2020.

We are seeking strongly motivated candidates to fill multiple Research Fellow positions in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The successful candidates will work on experimental and/or computational studies in the area of cell mechanics, tissue morphogenesis, and bio-hybrid soft robotics. We are particularly interested in candidates with research experience in bioengineering, soft materials, mechanobiology and applied mechanics.  

I have an opening for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University.  The postdoctoral fellow will work with PhD students and experimental collaborators on a range of projects dealing with coupled field phenomena and fracture/damage mechanics.   Projects here involve collaborations with Duke's medical school as well as researchers at other institutions and the national laboratories.  

The Taylor-Quinney coefficient is universally understood as a manifestation of the stored energy of cold work, and one therefore assumes a one to one correspoindence between its value and the microstructural state of the deformed material. In the attached letter (to appear in Phys Rev Letters), we question this assumption by bringing new experimental evidence that the thermomechanical conversion is a function of the kinetics of the process and not of the final microstructure only.