We present a continuum formulation to obtain simple expressions demonstrating the effects of surface residual stress and surface elastic constants on extensional and torsional stiffnesses of isotropic circular nanorods. Unlike the case of rectangular nanorods, we show that the stiffnesses of circular nanorods also depend on surface residual stress components. This is attributed to non-zero surface curvature inherent in circular nanorods.

Dear colleagues,

The deadline to submit your abstracts to WCCM 2018 is January 15, 2018. We would like to once again encourage you to submit your abstracts to minisymposium 1801. For more information please go to:

http://www.wccm2018.org/MS_1801

http://imechanica.org/node/21708

Best regards,

Miguel Bessa, Delft University of Technology

George Karniadakis, Brown University

Julien Yvonnet, Université Paris-Est

The scholarships will cover tuition fees and a maintenance award of not less than £14,553 per annum for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance).

UK/EU and International students are eligible to apply.

Further details and how to apply can be found at: 

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/238559

Recent advances in liquid crystal elastomer

Zhijian Wang, Shengqiang Cai

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering Program

UCSD

Job Description:

We are looking for a postdoctoral research fellow who has experience with developing and implementing computational algorithms for simulation and optimization in structural mechanics.

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to cordially invite you to attend the symposium entitled "Deformation and Failure of Multifunctional Materials" organized under track "Mechanics of Solids, Structures, and Fluids" in the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) ASME 2018 conference. The conference will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 11–14, 2018 (https://www.asme.org/events/imece).

Good day, everyone.

Two Ph.D positions are open for Fall 2018 in Mechanical Engineering at the Univesrity of New Hampshire.

The student will work on the NSF/CAREER project on Mechanics of Chiral Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterials.

(theory, finite element simulations, 3D printing, and mechanical experiments)

The candidate will also have opportunity to apply for the CEPS fellowship. 

More information can be found at

http://www.unh.edu/yaning-lab/

Call for papers: Special issue of IJMCE journal on Multiscale multiphysics modellig of materials