You are invited to the 15th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimisation (WCSMO-15), hosted in University College Cork, Ireland from 5th-9th June 2023.

Class of 2023 EML - Early Career Advisory Board (EML-ECAB)

2 funded PhD positions are available in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Temple University.  One research focus is on the design of architected composite structures for 3D printing.  More broadly, the student will be exposed to computational materials and mechanics of energy, nano/bio, and engineering materials.  The student will have opportunities to work with experimentalists and data scientists to generate high-impact research works.  Temple University is located in Philadelphia, the sixth-most populous U.S.

Postdoc & PhD Positions Open on Civil and Structural Engineering at Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China

Dear members of iMechanica, We are very pleased to announce the good health of the first overlay journal in Solid Mechanics, the so-called "Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics" Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics" which is a scholarly journal, provided on a Fair Open Access basis, without cost to both readers and authors. The Journal aims to select publications of the highest scientific caliber in the form of either original research or review in Solid Mechanics.

EnergyX Lab (Energy Exploration Laboratory) at North Carolina State University is seeking a highly qualified Ph.D. candidate. The group has extensive collaboration and active research projects in different energy-related areas with several leading US national laboratories as well as US companies.

The new model of truss element is based on the same stress-strain curves of tension, compression, and shear with the hexahedron element under the equivalent external force. Comparing and analyzing a simply supported elastoplastic concrete beam with initial cracks by using the new element method and the finite element method, it can be found that the load-displacement curve, the load-crack opening displacement curve, the contour of the displacement under the various loads, and the distribution of the horizontal normal stress under the maximum load are all in good agreement.

For the plane stress problem and the spatial problem of the elasto-plastic analysis of concrete, a new truss element model is presented by using the deformations under the equivalent external forces are the same. Some examples is given, which is in good agreement with the calculation results of the solid element.

(Note: The model in this article is the world's top concrete model, much better than the concrete model provided by Ansys itself.)

Dear colleagues and friends,

On the occasion of the 17th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 2023, https://17.usnccm.org/) to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA on July 23-27, 2023, we are organizing the mini symposium

Recent Advances in discretization techniques, element technology, and mesh adaptivity for inelasticity, localization, and failure (MS 324) 

The Artificial Organ Lab at the Departments of Surgery at the University of Maryland is a national leader in the development of circulatory and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support devices. The group is led by a team of engineers and clinicians well-versed in the engineering, clinical, and scientific aspects of medical devices. The research activities are carried out within a multidisciplinary research and design team consisting of clinicians, surgeons, scientists, engineers, residents, and students.