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The Postdoctoral Scholar is responsible for independent and collaborative development, implementation, and analysis of scientific research in the discipline of computational and experimental biomechanics. Responsibilities include management of all aspects of research related to biomechanical characterization and computer modeling of biological tissue and implants in Vahdati Lab. The research projects include investigation of mechanopathologies of soft and calcified tissue and design of personalized medical devices.

EMI, the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, is pleased to announce the 2019 winners of prestigious Society and Institute awards:

https://www.asce.org/engineering-mechanics/news/20190502-emi-2019-award…

The awards will be presented on June 20 at the awards banquet of the EMI 2019 conference at Caltech in Pasadena, California (http://emi2019.caltech.edu/).

A recent study has drawn a new aspect on the role played by the surface stress with a torsional profile on silicon nanowires to address the existing controversy from experimental and computational studies (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327768951_Surface_Stress_Effec…).

This paper aims at assessing the influence of environmental parameters on the modal characteristics of age-old masonry constructions. The results of a long-term ambient vibration monitoring of the San Frediano bell tower in Lucca (Italy) are reported. The tower, dating back to the 11th century, has been fitted along its height with four triaxial seismometric stations, which were left active for about one year.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.10.045

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Colleagues:

Please share the attached recruitment flyer with your post-docs or fresh PhD students. This is an open rank and open discipline search. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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Aman Haque, Ph.D., MBA
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University
317A Leonhard Building, University Park, PA 16802
Tel: (814) 865-4248; Fax: (814) 865-9693
URL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mah37/

Journal Club for May 2019: Using Instabilities to Control Soft Robots Philipp Rothemund University of Colorado Boulder

Applications are invited for PhD positions at the Algorithms in Medicine and Neuro-Technology Lab (AIMAN Lab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. "Research" The AIMAN Lab pursues fundamental breakthroughs in biomedical cyber-physical systems.

Professor Yonggang Huang of Northwestern University will receive the 2019 Theodore von Karman Medal from ASCE. The Theodore von Karman Medal recognizes distinguished achievement in engineering mechanics, applicable to any branch of civil engineering.

More information about the medal and the past winners can be found via the following link:

https://www.asce.org/templates/award-detail.aspx?id=1602&all_recipients…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 31, 2019
Next Generation Paradigms for Additive Manufacturing and Metallic Printing
A book edited by Prof. H. A. Abdel-Aal (Drexel University)
https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/4042
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Dear imechanicians

I hope that this paper is of interest to you. The phase field fracture code developed in FEniCS is available at www.empaneda.com/codes

Phase field modelling of crack propagation in functionally graded materials

Hirshikesh, S. Natarajana, R.K. Annabattula, E. Martínez-Pañeda

Composites Part B: Engineering 169, pp 239-248 (2019)