Call for Abstracts: Symposium on “Mechanics of Energy and Energetic Materials” at SEM 2016 (Buena Vista, FL, June 6-9, 2016)
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to cordially invite you to submit an abstract to the 2016 Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) International Congress session on “Mechanics of Energy and Energetic Materials”. The conference will be held in Buena Vista, FL from June 6–9, 2016. Abstracts are due October 5, 2015 via the SEM.org website.
Mechanics of Energy and Energetic Materials
Invitation for Abstracts: Computational Mechanics Symposium at EMI 2016 (Vanderbilt)
Dear Colleagues
I would like to make you aware of a computational solid mechanics minisymposium being organized for the 2016 EMI-PMC conference at Vanderbilt University, May 22-25, 2016: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/emipmc2016/EMI.mini-symposia.php.
MS 15: Computational Methods and Applications for Solid and Structural Mechanics
postdoctoral position - phase field modeling
A postdoctoral research associate position is available immediately in the Computational Materials & Mechanics Laboratory at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla), http://web.mst.edu/~aslezaeemm/
Candidates need to have a strong background in Phase Field Modeling (PFM).
Call for Nominations for the Zdeněk P. Bažant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention
EMI, the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, is pleased to announce that the ASCE Board of Direction has established the Zdenek P. Bazant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention. This award was established to honor Zdeněk P. Bažant, Ph.D., S.E., NAS, NAE, Hon.M.ASCE, a recognized expert in the field of analytical and computational modeling of failure of quasi-brittle materials.
High damage tolerance of electrochemically lithiated silicon
Wang, X. et al. High damage tolerance of electrochemically lithiated silicon. Nature Communications 6:8417 doi: 10.1038/ncomms9417 (2015).
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EMI Mini-symposium for Computational Geomechanics
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to invite you to submit abstract to the Computational Geomechanics mini-symposium at the EMI Vanderbilt conference, from May 22th to 26th, 2016. The mini-symposium is co-organized by myself, Prof. Qiushi Chen, Prof. Xiayu Song, Dr. Joshua White, Prof. Richard Regueiro, Prof. Jose Andrade, Prof. Majid Manzaril and Prof. Ronaldo Borja.
The deadline for the abstract submission is Oct 15th, 2015.
More information can be found at URL below:
Faculty Position in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in biomechanics, to begin Fall 2016. This position is at the level of Assistant Professor. The department seeks to build upon its core strength in mechanical engineering as well as its collaborative research areas in mechanics of biological materials and soft materials.
Peptide–Graphene Interactions Enhance the Mechanical Properties of Silk Fibroin
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.5b05615 Studies reveal that biomolecules can form intriguing molecular structures with fascinating functionalities upon interaction with graphene. Then, interesting questions arise. How does silk fibroin interact with graphene? Does such interaction lead to an enhancement in its mechanical properties?
On the origins of the idea of the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient
Usually the multiplicative decomposition of deformation gradient in finite plasticity is (incorrectly) attributed to Lee and Liu (1967). This short note discusses the origins of this idea, which go back to the late 1940s. We explain that the first explicit mention of this decomposition appeared a decade earlier in the work of Bilby, et al. (1957) and Kröner (1959). While writing this note I found out that Bruce Bilby passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 91.