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The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor James R. Barber, University of Michigan, as the recipient of the 2015 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award. This award will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, tentatively scheduled on Tuesday, November 17, 2015, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015.

A Review of Quantitative Phase-Field Crystal Modeling of Solid–Liquid Structures

Submitted by mohsenzaeem on Fri, 01/02/2015 - 15:17

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phase field crystal

Phase-field crystal (PFC) is a model with atomistic-scale details acting on diffusive time scales. PFC uses the density field as its order parameter, which takes a constant value in the liquid phase and a periodic function in the solid phase. PFC naturally takes into account elasticity, solid–liquid interface free energy, surface anisotropy, and grain boundary free energy by using this single-order parameter in modeling of coexisting solid–liquid structures.

Effects of geometrical and mechanical properties of fiber and matrix on composite fracture toughness

Submitted by Yuli Chen on Fri, 01/02/2015 - 08:19

Composites reinforced by thinner fibers are intensively studied in recent years and expected to have better
mechanical properties. With development of nanotechnology, the diameter of fiber can be as thin as
several nanometers, such as nanofibers and nanotubes. Then, do these thinner fibers definitely result in
composites with better mechanical properties? In this paper, the toughening effect of reinforcing fibers in
composites is investigated based on the three-level failure analysis model. It is found that thinner

PhD Position in Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at UIUC

Submitted by Yuhang Hu on Wed, 12/31/2014 - 20:34

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PhD position at UIUC

Submissions to JAM have almost doubled

Submitted by Yonggang Huang on Wed, 12/31/2014 - 14:21

The submission to JAM in 2013 was ~42 manuscripts/month. Probably because of its rapid review process (1st round of review ~ 10 days, and 2nd round of review ~24 days including authors' revision time) and rapid publication (online within 48 hours after acceptance), the monthly submission is nearly doubled now. For example, the submission in December, 2014 is 78 in a single month.

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