Please consider submitting an abstract to the Symposium Architected Materials: Design, Fabrication and Characterization for the 2019 Mach Conference which will take place on April 3-5 in Annapolis, MD.

The deadline for abstract submission is November 1.

Organizers: Stavros Gaitanaros (JHU), Jamie Guest (JHU), Jordan Raney (UPenn)

Dear Colleagues,

The Time-Dependent Materials Technical Division of the Society of Experimental Mechanics invites you to submit an abstract to Track 2,“Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials” at the SEM International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (Reno, NV, June 3-6, 2019).

Dear Colleagues,

Please find attached the new 2018 issue of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division Newsletter. Featured highlights include:

• Applied Mechanics Executive Committee (2017-2018)
• Message from the Chair
• ASME/AMD Medals & Awards
• Timoshenko Banquet Speech
• News from the Technical Committees
• News from the ASME-AMD Journals
• Other Awards, News, and Announcements

Hope you enjoy the update from our vibrant Mechanics community.

Best Regards,

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for faculty positions starting September 2019 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. Appointment will be at the assistant or untenured associate professor level.

This is a quick advert to let you know about a post-doctoral research assistant (PDRA) with me. It is a 2-year research position with possible extension depending on funding and performance (see below for details).More positions will be available in future years.

  https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/30041. 

 

I now include this paper in my course on fracture mechanics.

The fundamental problem of friction in the presence of macroscopic adhesion, as in soft bodies, is receiving interest from many experimentalists. Since the first fracture mechanics 'purely brittle' model of Savkoor and Briggs, models have been proposed where the mixed mode toughness is interpreted with phenomenological fitting coefficients introducing weaker coupling between modes than expected by the "purely brittle" model.

Teng Zhang

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University

Introduction

It is my pleasure to solicit nominations for the "Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty". This award, launched in 2012, is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. While interdisciplinary work that bridges mechanics with physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines is encouraged, the ideal awardee will demonstrate clear inspiration from mechanics in his/her research.