Call for abstracts for the symposium on Martensitic Transformations in Non-Metallic Materials in the International Conference on Martensitic Transformations (ICOMAT) 2017.

Dear Colleagues, We wanted to bring to your attention that the the deadline for nominations of the 2016 AMD/ASME Awards has been extended to October 15, 2016. Please find more details below.

Warm Regards, Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division 

Come to meet and mingle with the Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) editorial board and authors at a reception during the 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES2016) to be hosted by the University of Maryland (UMD) during 2-5 October 2016 at the College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.

The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor positions in

Experiments, numerical simulations, and analytical calculations are used to calibrate a diffuse-interface Cahn-Hilliard model of Li-Sn thin film electrodes that experience a transformation from Sn to Li₂Sn₅. It is shown that a concentration-gradient dependent mobility can be used in the Cahn-Hilliard equation to give the interface a finite mobility and capture its nonequilibrium behavior.

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the 2017 Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) International Congress session on “ Fracture and fatigue of Composites”, organized by the Fatigue and Fracture Technical Division.  See below for further information on this session. 

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KU Leuven is currently trying to fill a PhD position for the FiBreMoD project. If you are an enthusiastic and motivated candidate with a background in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science or similar, then you should consider applying. You can find all the details on: https://www.mtm.kuleuven.be/Onderzoek/Composites/esr3-until-filled

In this paper, using the Hilbert complexes of nonlinear elasticity, the approximation theory for Hilbert complexes, and the finite element exterior calculus, we introduce a new class of mixed finite element methods for 2D nonlinear elasticity -- compatible-strain mixed finite element methods (CSFEM). We consider a Hu-Washizu-type mixed formulation and choose the displacement, the displacement gradient, and the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor as independent unknowns. We use the underlying spaces of the Hilbert complexes as the solution and test spaces.