The day before the SEM Conference this June in Reno, Nevada, USA, we will be teaching a short course entitled Residual Stress 101: https://sem.org/annualprogram. See below for a description of the course. We will cover lots of practical material on residual stresses, much of which is not covered in standard engineering curricula. This is great material for any interested researcher who never got a comprehensive background in residual stress. It will also be great for graduate students or advanced undergrads, and students pay half price.

A PhD studentship is available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kingston University London.

The work will be dedicated to the discrete element modeling of pellets' compaction in orodispersible tablets.

The project is in close collaboration with the Kingston University's Department of Pharmacy and also the University of Strathclyde. The student will have access to the high-performance computing facilities and also to the relevant facilities to obtain experimental data for validation of the developed numerical models.

We have one or more postdoc positions available, to be filled immediately, in my research group. We are looking for postdocs in the broad area of computational mechanics.  Candidates should have expertise in modeling dynamic responses of path-dependent materials. Our project is specifically focused on the development and validation of multiscale models for energetic/porous/polycrystalline materials across length scales. More details will be provided to interested candidates. 

A PhD Scholarship available in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Topic

Machine learning based approaches for modelling and numerical simulation of advanced materials

Preferred background

Bachelor and/or Master Degrees in Computer Science and/or Material Science.

Strong multidisciplinary background with interest and experience in:

Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Deep learning;

I uploaded a new paper titled "SP Timoshenko and America".

Will be appreciative for readers' comments.

Thanks,

Isaac Elishakoff

Dear colleagues,

Here is our recently published review article about hydrogel adhesion. Hydrogel adhesion has undergone transformative advances in the last few years. This review article describes these advances, and outlooks future opportunities.

Title: Hydrogel Adhesion: A Supramolecular Synergy of Chemistry, Topology, and Mechanics

Authors: Jiawei Yang, Ruobing Bai, Baohong Chen, Zhigang Suo*

Abstract

I would like to share the codes required to perform an end-to-end molecular dynamics simulation, which will be useful to the novice researchers in the filed of atomistic simulations. I focus on simulating uniaxial tensile tests of a graphene sample in the LAMMPS molecular dynamics simulator, and I have attached two MATLAB scripts to create the input files for LAMMPS and to extract data from the LAMMPS output file.

 Dear Colleagues, 

Please consider submitting your abstract to our mini-symposium on "Mechanics of deformable atomically-thin materials (Symposium 8.2)" at the 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), Washington University in St. Louis, October 13-15, 2019. 

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada invites outstanding applicants for a full-time tenured or tenure-tracked position at the rank of Assistant/Associate Professor in Sustainable Structural Materials. The successful candidate is expected to have demonstrated a commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, and research excellence or potential in one of the following disciplines:

-Innovative structural products and systems made with sustainable materials

We encourage you to contribute an abstract to the symposium "Multiscale mechanics of granular media" (Symposium 6.2) at the 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) to be held on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, October 13-15, 2019. The symposium description may be found below. For further details and to submit an abstract, please see the meeting website.

The abstract submission deadline is April 30, 2019.

It would be great to see you there!