Dear Members of the Mechanics and Materials Communities,
You may have known about the efforts of the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program of the National Science Foundation on revitalizing the practice of verification and validation (V&V) of computational models as a rigorous and indispensable step in the scientific investigative process.
If you're a user of Simpleware software, or want to know more about it, I recommend the new release webcast this week: Simpleware S-2021.06 Release: Highlights of New and Improved Features:
https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/1346265540643513614?source=IMechani…
Here's what it'll cover:
In collaboration with an internationally renowned research center, we are happy to announce a fully funded PhD position on modeling and simulations of Li-ion batteries. The candidate will develop models for battery response during normal operation and high C-rates, including some of the most relevant processes of mechanical degradation. Models will be implemented in HPC using open C++ FEM libraries.
Surfaces showing macroscopic adhesion are rare in industry, but are abundant in Nature. Adhesion enhancement has been discussed mostly with geometrical systems (e.g. patterned surfaces), more rarely with viscoelasticity, and has the goal of increasing hysteresis and the detachment force at separation. Soft materials are common, and these have viscoelastic properties that result in rate-dependent increase of toughness.
We present a theory for finite and spatial elastic deformation of rods under the influence of arbitrary magnetic field and boundary condition. The rod is modeled as a Kirchhoff rod and is assumed to have uniformly distributed array of uniaxial spheroidal paramagnetic inclusions embedded in it all pointing in the same direction in the undeformed state. The governing equations of the magnetoelastic rod are derived which are further non-dimensionalized and linearized to investigate buckling in such rods.
Professor Yonggang Huang from Northwestern University is elected as an Honorary Member (2021) of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Each year ASME elects no more than 5 honorary members. Since 2000 the mechanicians elected to the honorary members include:
We are soliciting article submissions for a special issue on Advances in Computational and Data-driven Poromechanics for International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering
Research Fellow in High Resolution Microscopy of Engineering Alloys
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in High Resolution Microscopy of Engineering Alloys.
Post Doctoral Researcher in Computational Solid Mechanics
Applications are invited for a post doctoral researcher in computational solid mechanics.
How can shear loading rate affect the soft adhesive contact area? A new blog post in tribonet.org discusses the problem following the paper "Papangelo, Antonio. (2021). On the Effect of Shear Loading Rate on Contact Area Shrinking in Adhesive Soft Contacts. Tribology Letters. 69." just published in Tribology Letters.
