I think you all will be happy to hear a few amazing accomplishments that
occurred in 2013 in the SIMULIA Learning Community. We are so pleased
to announce that the SLC contains well over 12,000 members and is
growing daily - THANK YOU!!! These members include SIMULIA users,
advocates, academics, commercial customers, researchers and more!



Additionally, we received our first few CUSTOMER blog posts created and
published to the community and we could not be more excited about it.

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the area of large-scale inversion and imaging using acoustic waves and high-performance computing.

At the interface between the fields of solid mechanics, acoustics and numerical modeling, the present job offer focuses on inverse problems with the aim of extending applications of the spectral-element method and petascale high-performance computing to (1) ocean acoustics and for (2) non-destructive material testing.  

Hi everyone, 

I cannot get the actual significance regarding the usage of Prony  series and Shift factors in the material modelling of the viscoelastic material. 

Please can anyone post some insights into this. Would be helpful. 

Dear All

please find a link to a story describing the results of a final project that I assigned for my graduate "Experimental Structural Dynamics" class. This is timely, on this Superbowl Sunday and the broad coverage of safety issues related to Football and head injuries.

http://coe.gatech.edu/content/tech-research-holds-key-better-football-h…;

Dear Colleague,

Haythornthwaite Foundation/Applied Mechanics Division - 2013 Student Travel Awards

2014 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award - Professor Katia Bertoldi

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Professor Katia Bertoldi, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2014 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award. 

2014 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award - Professor Alexander F. Vakakis

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Alexander F. Vakakis, W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is the recipient of the 2014 Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award. 

2014 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award - Professor Glaucio H. Paulino

The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Glaucio H. Paulino, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, who is the recipient of the 2014 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.

Applied Mechanics Division of ASME - 2013 Student Paper Competition

The Applied Mechanics Division of ASME encourages the involvement of graduate students in the activities of the AMD Division.  One of the ways is the sponsorship of the annual Student Paper Cmpetition.  The recipient of this prize was chosen from the Haythornthwaite Student Travel contest award pool sponsored by the Haythornthwaite Foundation. This year the winner was: