One PhD position is available for Fall 2016 in the Bioresource Engineering Department of McGill University. The research is on Multifunctional Materials. Theoretical, computational, and experimental studies will be conducted for a multiscale multiphysics analysis. The candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Hamid Akbarzadeh at McGill University.

Required qualifications for the position are:

1. Strong background on Computational mechanics, Nonlinear and instability analysis, Multiscale analysis, Cellular Solids, and Smart materials.

Rethink Wood: Unconventional Applications of Cellulose and its Derivatives

Teng Li, Shuze Zhu, Zheng Jia

1. Introduction

These slides are used in a course on thermodynamics.

It is my pleasure to announce that Teng Li, of the University of Maryland at College Park, has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal.

The prize is awarded to a young researcher (within 10 years after PhD at the time of nomination submission) in his or her ascendancy whose work has already had an impact in his/her field within Engineering Science.

Real-Time Stress Measurements in Germanium Thin Film Electrodes during Electrochemical Lithiation/Delithiation Cycling (http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/162/14/A2840)

Siva P. V. Nadimpalli, Rajasekhar Tripuraneni, and Vijay A. Sethuraman

Stress Evolution in Lithium-Ion Composite Electrodes during Electrochemical Cycling and Resulting Internal Pressures on the Cell Casing (http://jes.ecsdl.org/content/162/14/A2656)

Siva P.V. Nadimpalli, Vijay A. Sethuraman, Daniel P. Abraham, Allan F. Bower, and Pradeep R. Guduru

Onto resolving spurious wave reflection problem with changing nonlocality among various length scales

R. Rahman, J. T. Foster

We welcome applications for a post-doctoral position in the Multiscale Computational Mechanics Laboratory (MCML) at Vanderbilt University. MCML is a part of the interdisciplinary Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (MuMS) facility.

In order to improve the properties of metallic glasses (MG) a new type of MG structure, composed of nanoscale grains, referred to as nanoglass (NG), has been recently proposed. Here, we use large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of tensile loading to investigate the deformation and failure mechanisms of Cu64Zr36 NG nanopillars with large, experimentally accessible, 50 nm diameter. Our results reveal NG ductility and failure by necking below the average glassy grain size of 20 nm, in contrast to brittle failure by shear band propagation in MG nanopillars.