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Applied Mechanics Reviews, the flagship review journal of the ASME, is launching a search for two Associate Editors with expertise in fluid dynamics/turbulence and mechanics of materials, respectively, to join its editorial board. Please see the attached document for further details. All interested individuals are encouraged to apply.

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As part of a collaborative project between different industrial partners, research center and Universities, the main objective of the post-doctoral position will be to develop methodologies in the context of stochastic simulations.

Papers of interest for this position are available on

Predicting high cycle fatigue life with unified mechanics theory - ScienceDirect

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to provide free registration links for the AMD awards event and the Koiter medalist lecture, which will take place on November 3rd, 2021, between 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm Eastern Time. The AMD awards event includes the Timoshenko medalist lecture by Prof. Huajian Gao; while the Koiter medalist lecture will be given by Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel.

In a new paper, we report our observations of the mechanical response (quasi-static and dynamic) of woire arc additively manufactured steels. An interesting alternative to the "conventional" powder based 3D printing. The paper is temporarily available on:

We welcome applications to complete a doctoral training in Advanced Engineering with Living Materials (ALIVE) as part of the MaP Doctoral School (www.doctoral-school.ethz.ch) hosted by the ETH Zurich Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP). We offer up to 20 full-time doctoral researcher positions to start early 2022. 

Have you ever wondered that you can visually see the stress patterns live in a loaded structure! I am not speaking about the contours that you see in commercial finite element software #fea .

For e.g. see the colorful image attached. The fringe patterns are the live stress field around a crack in a loaded structure.

Find more answers on how to interpret these images using state of the art image processing technology in the newly published book:

Towards the development of reusable space systems, high emissivity coatings on fibrous ceramic substrates with improved thermal resistance are needed. In this study WSi2–MoSi2–Si–SiB6-borosilicate glass coatings were prepared on fibrous ZrO2 by slurry dipping and subsequent high temperature rapid sintering. A coating with 20 wt% WSi2 and 50 wt% MoSi2 presents optimal thermal stability with only 10.06 mg/cm2 mass loss and 4.0% emissivity decrease in the wavelength regime 1.27–1.73 μm after 50 h oxidation at 1773 K. The advantages of double phase metal-silicide coatings combining WSi2 and MoSi2 include improved thermal compatibility with the substrate and an enhanced glass-mediated self-healing ability.

We would like to invite you to participate in the Mini-Symposium on "Mechanics and Physics of Structures" within "ESMC2022 - 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference" in Galway (Ireland), July 4-8, 2022.

The deadline for abstract submission is November 19th, 2021.

Mini-symposium Organizers
Sebastien Neukirch (CNRS/UPMC),
Benoit Roman (CNRS/UPMC),
Keith Seffen (University of Cambridge),
Francesco Dal Corso (University of Trento)

Nearly 50 years ago, Eringen developed a nonlocal theory of elasic solids according to which the Causchy stress tensor "sigma" at a point x depends upon the strain tensor "epsilon" not only at the point x but also at all other points in the body.  For homogeneous solids, and a few additional assumptions, he showed that the constitutive relation can be reduced to a differential form that has become popular among people studying deformations of functionally graded materials (FGMs).  However, an FGM is inhomogeneous

Postdoctoral research associate positions are available in the Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Physics Departments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The postdoctoral researchers will work with Professors Serife Tol, Ellen Arruda, Xiaoming Mao, and Anthony Waas on a new project sponsored by DARPA. These postdoctoral researchers will be collectively mentored by the aforementioned faculty members on the team.

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to see the preprint of our new paper "Statistical mechanics of a dielectric polymer chain in the force ensemble" that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Here we compute the electroelasticity of single polymer chains using both analytical approximations and novel MCMC techniques. Working in the fixed force ensemble facilitates the derivation of the analytical approximations, which are shown to agree well with the MCMC results. This work complements prior work on the statistical mechanics of dielectric polymers chains obtained in a different ensemble. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104658).

We address the challenging issue of simultaneously finding transverse shear and normal stresses at all points in a plate from a priori known values of the in-plane stresses at plate’s interior points. The principle of virtual work is employed to equate the work done by the transverse stresses to the difference between the work done by the external forces (applied surface tractions and body forces) and that by the in-plane stresses.

Job Title: Assistant/Associate Professor

Location of Position: Blacksburg, Virginia

Employing Institution: Virginia Tech

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to attend mini-symposium 327: Mechanics of Polymeric Gels. The 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics will be held in Austin, Texas, June 19–24, 2022 (www.usnctam2022.org/).

Our symposium welcomes experimental, theoretical, and computational talks that discuss mechanics of polymeric gels (see https://www.usnctam2022.org/MS_327 )

Please note that the deadline for abstracts is December 18, 2022.

Synopsys are running a webcast with Dr. Daniel Wiznia of the Yale School of Medicine this November 2nd - it will cover how Simpleware software is used for personalized treatments being developed using different 3D clinical image analysis techniques, including 3D printing.

More details available here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/351171237776130062?source=imec...