The top italian engineer Davide Bigoni gets his 4th cover in Proc. Roy. Soc. A in just 18 months 

See here.

Applications are invited for two M.S. positions in Computational Mechanics and Materials at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The ideal candidate should have a B.S. in engineering, math or physics. The positions will start in Fall 2017.

ANSYS just opens several developer positions in aeas of contact mechanics, material modeling, finite element formulation, solver technology. If you are interested, please submit your application on ANSYS company website at 

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Hello

I wonder if some one helps me in applying shear on a surface of a cube. Do we have to apply it on two opposite surfaces. or I can fix one surface?

Thanks

The 8th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives is organised by the European Structural Integrity Society- Technical Committee 4 on Fracture Mechanics related to Polymers, Polymeric Composites and Adhesives.

It will take place between 10-14 September 2017 at Les Diablerets, in Switzerland. You can register now at http://www.esistc4conference.com/conference-register.asp

nt you consider relevant may also be submitted.

Maybe the following open access article in Materials  2017, 10(1), 88 is of interest to modellers wanting to use experimental microstructures in their simulations:

http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/10/1/88

Toulouse, May 10-12th, 2017

For more see:

https://mecano2016.sciencesconf.org

Register the free webinar at https://www.nafems.org/events/nafems/2017/multiscalefeb2017/. 

We present a systematic approach to deal with the modelling and analysis of the cracked rotating shafts behaviour. We begin by revisiting the problem of modelling the breathing mechanism of the crack. Here we consider an original approach based on the form we give to the energy of the system and then identify the mechanism parameters using 3D computations with unilateral contact conditions on the crack lips. A dimensionless flexibility is identified which makes the application of the approach to similar problems straightforward.