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 (Indianapolis, IN, June 12-15, 2017). The submission deadline has been extended to October 31^st.

There is an open position for a Research Assistant in my group. The project in on multi-physics multi-scale modeling of composite materials. The successful applicant should have a strong background in continuum mechanics and be proficient in programming languages such as Fortran, C,or Python. Interested applicants should send an email to mshakiba <at> vt <dot> edu, and include their CV highlighting their qualification for the position. The position is available starting Aug 15th 2017. 

The TMS Young Leaders Committee is organizing the Young Professional “Job Candidate Poster Session” at the TMS 2017 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in San Diego, CA. This event is designed to create networking opportunities for young professionals to interact with potential employers and hopefully discover prospects for future employment.

The product process department in Huawei Technology in Shenzhen, China is expanding our simulation capability. We are looking for interested simulation/mechanical engineers, preferably experiences in solder fatigue and high strain rate scenarios in board level electronic packaging. If anyone is interested, please sent me your resume via koh.sau.wee [at] huawei.com (koh[dot]sau[dot]wee[at]huawei[dot]com)

Regards

Sau

Dear Colleagues,

The upcoming 2017 APS March Meeting will take place in New Orleans, LA during March 13-17, 2017. Here, we would like to invite you to contribute to a focus session called “Physics of Bioinspired Materials” as below. 

2.1.12: Physics of Bio-Inspired Materials (GSOFT, DBIO) [same as 4.1.30]

Any one studying the "piezoionic" effect? What's the mechanism of such an effect? What are the principal influencing factors?

A multiphase field model is developed to study the effects of metastable ζ and γ hydrides on the nucleation and growth of the stable δ hydrides in α zirconium matrix.  Acta Materialia 123 (2017) 235-244 

Almost three years also , I posted an entry titled Scalar Done Wrong.  The entry has received a large number of comments, and 16,793 reads.  I have since tried to get scalars right.  I have just attached today’s version of my notes as a PDF file to the original entry.