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The Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, is pleased to announce the winners of prestigious 2022 mechanics awards.  

See details here.

EMI 2022 Conference

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At this time, we are planning for EMI 2022 to be a 100% in-person event.  

The Journal of Engineering Mechanics (JEM) launches a series of high-profile special issues. The second in the series is dedicated to “Statistical Physics in Structural Mechanics”, guest edited by Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi, University of California at Irvine and Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton University. Submissions will be accepted until June 30, 2022.

For details, see the attached PDF file.

The Journal of Engineering Mechanics (JEM) launches a series of high-profile special issues. The first one is dedicated to “Instability and Failure of Nonclassical Materials and Nonlinear Structures”, guest edited by C.W. Lim (City University of Hong Kong), Stylianos Yiatros (Cyprus University of Technology), and Ahmer Wadee (Imperial College London). Submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2022.

For details, read the attached PDF.

EMI, the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, is pleased to announce the EMI announces the 2021 Student Video Competition organized by its Granular Materials Committee within the broad field of granular materials. The deadline for submission of a 10-minute video is November 26.  For details on the rules and for registration, visit the Granular Materials Student Video Competition page at

The Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, is pleased to announce the winners of several 2021 prestigious mechanics awards.  

See details here.

 The presentation of the award will take place during the Award Ceremony of the EMI PMC 2021 Conference to be held as a virtual event on May 25-28.  

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