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Toughening Transparent Ceramics with Bio-inspired Architectures

Zhen Yin ^{(1, 2)}

¹ McGill University, Canada

² Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

Acknowledgement: This journal club was posted on my last day in Montreal. Thanks Prof. Francois Barthelat and all the group memebers for the wonderful six years. A special thanks goes to Prof. Francois Barthelat for his advisory in these years that makes this journal club possible. 

It is my pleasure to solicit nominations for the "Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty". This award, launched in 2012, is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. While interdisciplinary work that bridges mechanics with physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines is encouraged, the ideal awardee will demonstrate clear inspiration from mechanics in his/her research.

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A phase-field model based on a modified form of the regularized formulation of Griffith’s fracture theory is presented to investigate intergranular and transgranular crack propagations in polycrystalline brittle materials. Grains and grain boundaries are incorporated in the crack initiation and propagation model based on a phase-field model for grain growth, in which the elastic anisotropy varies based on the grain orientation angle, and the grain boundary energy is related to the misorientation angle of the adjacent grains.

One fully-funded Ph.D. position is now available immediately in the area of computational nanomaterials in the group of Dr. Jihong Ma (https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/jihong-ma-group/home?authuser=0) at the University of Vermont.

Title: Direct coupling predicting the strength and life of fiberous composite laminates

Speaker: Dr. Ken L Reifsnider

Time: 10/8, 11AM-12PM EST.

Please go to https://www.purdue.edu/cmsc/events/2020-webinars/ to register for this talk.

The Memar Lab in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is accepting applications for an immediate fully funded post-doctoral/research scientist position in injury biomechanics and computational modeling of traumatic brain injury. This position is highly collaborative and will involve working closely with a multidisciplinary team from UTSA, Georgia Tech, Emory University, and Children Hospital of Philadelphia.

A Postdoc position is available in the area of computational solid mechanics in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University. Interested qualified individuals who have research experience in computational solid mechanics please send an email to (Sheidaei [at] iastate.edu (Sheidaei[at]iastate[dot]edu)) with your most recent CV, research experience, a list of publications; and a list of references.

There is a new paper in predicting battery aging without testing based empirical models.  "Entropy generation model to estimate battery aging"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352152X20315772…

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:671384407290732134…

We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher to perform original computational research on biomechanics and fluid dynamics. The successful candidate will develop numerical methods to model coupled processes on high-performance computing platforms. This position is in the Gomez Research Group (https://engineering.purdue.edu/gomez/) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. This is a one-year postdoctoral appointment with the possibility of extension to a maximum of three years.

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