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Webinar: Biological Modeling for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Dec 7th 2016

Submitted by Simpleware on

Presented by Dennis Truong (City College of New York, USA) 

Wednesday, December 7, 2016: 9 AM PST (West Coast) / 12 PM EST (East Coast) / 5 PM GMT (UK) / 6 PM CET (Europe)

Join this webinar to discover how the City College of New York and Soterix Medical Inc. use Simpleware to create robust models for investigating transcranial direct current stimulation.

ASME Materials Division award lectures and reception next Monday (Nov. 14)

Submitted by Yong Zhu on

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the attached invitation from the ASME Materials Division. Please note that the Award Lectures will take place at Phoenix Grand Ballroom E (NOT room 227B as in the conference program).

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Yong Zhu

PhD position in plasma facing materials at University of Alabama, Huntsville

Submitted by Kavan Hazeli on

One PhD position is currently available in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. The project aims to investigate plasma induced damage in solids. This program includes performing experimental mechanics tests, materials characterization techniques and computational materials science methods. Candidates should have a background in solid mechanics, materials science, and physics.

PhD position in soft materials mechanics at Monash University

Submitted by Laurence Brassart on

One PhD position is currently available in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). The project aims to investigate the mechanical behaviour of hydrogels and will involve the development of novel constitutive theories as well as their implementation in a finite element code.

Candidates should have a strong background in solid mechanics, applied mathematics and programming.

Controlled elastic postbuckling of bilaterally constrained non-prismatic columns: application to enhanced quasi-static energy harvesters

Submitted by Suihan Liu on

Axially compressed bilaterally constrained columns, which can attain multiple snap-through buckling events in their elastic postbuckling response, can be used as energy concentrators and mechanical triggers to transform external quasi-static displacement input to local high-rate motions and excite vibration-based piezoelectric transducers for energy harvesting devices.

Post yield response of amorphous polymers under different stress states

Submitted by Mirkhalaf on

In this contribution, an elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model based on the single mode EGP (Eindhoven Glassy Polymer) model is proposed to describe the deformation behaviour of solid polymers subjected to finite deformations under different stress states. The material properties of the original model are determined and calibrated from a uniaxial compression-loading test. Then, several numerical examples under different stress states are presented to illustrate the limitations.