I am pleased to share our recent paper on the growth and coalescence of voids in HCP single crystals (Balaji Selvarajou, Shailendra P. Joshi, Amine Benzerga). 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509618307300 

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Date / Time: March 19-21, 2019

Location: College Park Marriott Hotel, University of Maryland, Washington, DC, USA

Synopsys will be the 2019 BMES/FDA Frontiers in Medical Devices event to talk about how Simpleware software is used for medical device design and biomedical engineering. We will also be providing a technology showcase seminar to demonstrate how to go from 3D image data to models for different applications.

Applications are invited for PhD positions at the Algorithms in Medicine and Neuro-Technology Lab (AIMAN Lab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. "Research" The AIMAN Lab pursues fundamental breakthroughs in biomedical cyber-physical systems.

A PostDoc/Research Assistant Professor Position is available immediately on DFT/Phase Field Modeling at the Colorado School of Mines. The applicants should have a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science or in a relevant field, with a strong background in DFT calculations and phase-field modeling. The project involves simulating structures/phases, kinetics and nano/microstructural evolution in advanced manufacturing.

We have published a paper called "Micromechanical model for prediction of the fatigue limit for unidirectional fibre composites" in Mechanics of Materials. See the link here.

Two PhD positions are available at the University of Southampton (jointly with an industrial partner in Denmark). Both poisitions are in the broad area of structural vibration.

(1) Analytical and computational structural dynamics and vibration (in the context of elastic and acoustic metamaterial, especially those fabricated using additive manufacturing):

https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1037118AK-R

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I hope some of you will find our recent paper in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids interesting. The Abaqus user element (UEL) subroutine developed to implement strain gradient plasticity theories with energetic and dissipative higher order stresses (Gudmundson 2004, Fleck and Willis 2009) can be downloaded from www.empaneda.com/codes

The role of plastic strain gradients in the crack growth resistance of metals

Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, Vikram S. Deshpande, Christian F. Niordson, Norman A. Fleck

Published in Phys. Rev. B: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.184305

Published in Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15567265.2019.1576816

Wenjie Xia, Xin Qin, Yao Zhang, Rober Sinko, Sinan Keten

Macromolecules (2018), https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02243