4-YEAR Postdoc / Scientist Position at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
For more details on the job opportunity, see here
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/recruit/mat_20190329.html
For more details on this ambitious project, see here
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Hundreds-of-years-worth-of-rare-earths-…
PhD position in Theoretical & Experimental Mechanics of High Performance (bio)Materials
Our Group of High Performance Materials in Enviormental & Civil Engineering Department at Michigan State University has two openings for PhD positions to work on Multiscale Modeling or Experimental Charachterization of Soft Materials starting Fall 2019.
Journal Club for March 2019: Fatigue of hydrogels
Fatigue of hydrogels
Ruobing Bai (1,2), Zhigang Suo (1)
(1) John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University
(2) Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology
The 2019 Franklin Institute Laureate Symposium honoring Dr. John A. Rogers held by Temple University, 9-12PM, April 10, 2019
Soft, Body-Integrated Microsystems Technologies
Franklin Institute Symposium honoring Dr. John A. Rogers
Recipient of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering
The 2019 Franklin Institute Laureate Symposium will be held at Temple University to honor Dr. John A. Rogers who received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering for pioneering the engineering of flexible and stretchable electronic systems for e-health and exploratory neuroscience.
Additive Manufacturing 4-D Printing Symposium
The Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics at Drexel University is organizing an International Symposium on Additive Manufacturing on Friday, April 12, 2019.
The subject of the meeting is Multi-Dimensional 3-4-D Printing of Metallic Materials
Criteria for selecting a reasonable and better measure of anisotropy
Published in Physcal Review Letters: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.045502. Many materials are anisotropic. However, there is no widely accepted measure for characterizing the degree of elastic anisotropy. Here, assuming that the limiting case of extreme anisotropy should possess a positive semidefinite stiffness matrix, we propose three criteria to evaluate measures of anisotropy and show that the existing measures in the literature do not satisfy all of the proposed criteria.
Dynamics of periodically coupled parallel flexural elements: towards the modular design of metamaterial beams
Periodic systems have attracted a lot of attention in science and engineering due to the existence of band gaps in their frequency spectra. Here, we study the flexural wave propagation in beams that are periodically connected in parallel and investigate how the contrast in the material and cross-sectional properties may affect the band structure of these systems and their dispersion properties.