This is a reminder that the final deadline to submit an abstract to the "Instabilities in Solids and Structures" symposium for the 2019 IMECE is Monday, July 22.

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We are recruiting a PhD student at the division of Applied Mechanics, Uppsala University. If interested, please check it out here:

https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=280425

There is a Ph.D. opening in my research group in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Houston to be filled the spring semester of 2020.
The research topic is modeling the deformation and fracture response of dissipative material systems.

Dear Friends,

I am looking for a postdoctoral candidate who wishes to apply for a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) fellowship.

This fellowship is a highly competitive scheme and includes a generous monthly salary (at the current exchange rate, around 3000 Euro or 3300 $) plus airfare (round-trip ticket to Japan).

I will support the application as a host and will help writing the proposal.
Applicants are allowed to suggest their own project, but preference will be given to candidates with experience and interest in two topics:

Hi all, 

Just wanted to share that the first issue of Matter was released last week. Matter is a new materials science journal from Cell Press. Our goal is to be a high impact offering, on par with Nature Materials. Check out our first issue here:

https://www.cell.com/matter/issue?pii=S2590-2385(19)X0002-8

URV 2019 PhD STUDENTSHIPS @ LIFE group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (http://lifeurv.wordpress.com/)

Grant reference: 2019PMF-PIPF-75  - Dept. Mechanical Engineering

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division would like to congratulate the recipients of the following 2019 ASME Awards

- 2019 Robert H. Thurston Lecture Award: Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

I attach a Letter I sent to the Editor of a tribology journal, concerning adhesion of rough surfaces. 

I contend that some "criteria" that have been proposed based on extrapolation of numerical results are due to the limitations in present numerical sophisticated rough contact simulations, which only span at most 3 orders of magnitude of wavelengths, so typically people simulate from nanometer to micrometer scale.

This paper demonstrates the potential use of toy-bricks as the building block of a mechanical tensile testing instrument for the mechanical characterisation of natural fibres. A table-top tensile testing instrument was developed using LEGO parts (Mindstorms EV3 and Technics) and a 2 kg capacity load cell, whereas deformation modes were programmed in an open source programming language. Experimental work was conducted on oil palm fibres under different tensile modes (i.e.