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Acta Mechanica Sinica (Vol. 33, Issue 6, 2017 ) (Vol. 34, Issue 1, 2018 )

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Dear everyone!

Hope you can read the sixth issue in 2017 (Vol. 33, Issue 6, 2017 ) and first issue in 2018 (Vol. 34, Issue 1, 2018 )  of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS).

Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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Discussion of fracture paper #20 - Add stronger singularities to improve numerical accuracy

Submitted by ESIS on

It is common practice to obtain stress intensity factors in elastic materials by using Williams series expansions truncated at the r^(-1/2)-stress term. I ask myself, what if both evaluations of experimental and numerical data is improved by including lower order (stronger singularities) terms? The standard truncation is done in a readworthy paper 

PhD position on modeling of additive manufacturing in CEMEF, MINES Paristech, France

Submitted by ZHANG Yancheng on

PhD position for developing an efficient computational platform for additive manufacturing by multi-scale approach and model reduction technique under the framework of finite element and level-set formulation. The additive manufacturing process that will be considered is the SLM process (Selective Laser Melting) for metals.

PhD positions at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

Submitted by marco.paggi on

Dear Mechanician,

we are searching for excellent PhD candidates for the next 3-yrs PhD programme in Systems Science (Track Computer Science and Systems Engineering, research unit MUSAM on Multi-scale Analysis of Materials) of the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, Tuscany, Italy) to work on an interdisciplinary research topic across computational mechanics, materials science, optimization, and high-performance computing.

Deadline: August 3rd 2018 at 12.00pm (CEST)

MSc position in optimization at Howard University, Washington, DC

Submitted by h.yazdani on

The Stout Infrastructure, Geotechnics, and Materials (SIGMa) Lab at Howard University, Washington, DC, invites applicants for a Master's position in optimization for Fall 2018. Highly-motivated, industrious individuals with a strong background in programming, geotechnics and structural analysis, adequate English proficiency, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team are encouraged to apply.

Required qualifications 

Two PhD positions in Computational Mechanics at Mines ParisTech (CEMEF)

Submitted by daniel.pino_munoz on

The group of Computational Solids Mechanics at CEMEF Mines ParisTech, in the French Riviera, is seeking two candidates for Ph.D. positions. The appointment is starting on October 1st 2018.

The research topics are related to :

- 3D Numerical modelling of Ductile Fracture
- Numerical modelling of sheet-like materials under complex loading paths

Interested applicants can send a resume to

Roll up your sleeves

Submitted by Fan Xu on

When you push up your sleeves, wrinkles form, which eventually evolve into ridges (pictured). As familiar as you may be with this phenomenon, have you ever thought about its underlying mechanism? It involves the complex nonlinear mechanical behaviour of large deformations and surface instabilities, which in turn give rise to a sophisticated morphological evolution. And now, Yifan Yang and co-workers have revealed a hitherto unknown post-buckling behaviour that involves multiple bifurcation transitions (Phys. Rev.