A. Rafsanjani and D. Pasini, Bistable Auxetic Mechanical Metamaterials Inspired by Ancient Geometric Motifs. Extreme Mechanics Letters 9, 291-296 (2016).

One postdoctoral fellow position in solid mechanics/biomechanics at Dartmouth is immediately available in the Chen group at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth (http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/people/faculty/zi-chen/). The subjects of research include, but are not limited to, cancer cell migration and mechanics of morphogenesis in embryos or plants.

As an example, here we discuss implant-associated infection from the mechanics point of view on bacteria adhesion affected by the biomaterial surface roughness:

1.    Implant-associated infection, a leading cause of failure in many biomedical devices, is caused by adhesion of bacteria to the surface of biomaterials. Implant-associated infection is difficult to treat, for example, joint replacement infections may occur deep around the artificial implants.

I have received a message from Dr. Thomas Michelitsch, French National Center for Scientific Research, that Gerard Maugin passed away on September 22, 2016. Professor Maugin was a great man, a great researcher in continuum mechanics and applied mathematics. His untimely death is a momentous loss for the entire Applied Mechanics Community.

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.