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PhD Position with Assistantship

Submitted by abhen.singh on Sat, 05/11/2019 - 02:55

There is an opening for a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University in Waco, TX, USA for Fall 2019 or Spring 2020 (negotiable). The position comes with 3 years of research assistantship with support that includes monthly stipend and tuition remission. The general area of interest is in composite materials including both polymeric and ceramic matrix composites. Scope of work includes composite manufacture, testing (environmental/high temperature), characterization and computational modeling.

Call for abstracts: Symposium on "Mechanics of multifunctional materials for sensing, actuation, adaptation and remodeling" - SES 2019

Submitted by Caterina Lamuta on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 18:13

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Dear colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we encourage you to submit an abstract to the symposium on “Mechanics of multifunctional materials for sensing, actuation, adaptation and remodeling” (symposium 7.7 under the Track 7: Mechanics and Physics of Materials) at the Society of Engineering Science (SES) that will be held at Washington University in St. Louis October 13-15, 2019.

Symposium synopsis:

Network models for characterization of trabecular bone

Submitted by Ahmed Elbanna on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 08:01

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bone

network theory

Full text here:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332520664_Network_models_for_characterization_of_trabecular_bone

Two 3-year PhD graduate research assistant position on Concrete Fracture Mechanics and Soil-Structure Interaction

Submitted by rheei on Mon, 04/22/2019 - 06:31

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Two 3-year PhD graduate research assistant position on Concrete Fracture Mechanics and Soil-Structure Interaction

Two 3-year PhD graduate research assistant position is available immediately in the Department of Civil Engineering, Chonnam National University, South Korea in the fields of concrete fracture mechanics and soil-structure interaction, Candidates should have a Bachelor/Master’s degree in Civil engineering or Mechanical engineering with good academic standing and should have one or more experiences in the following:

Professor Huajian Gao Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on Sat, 04/20/2019 - 13:31

I am pleased to share some good news pertaining to one of our mechanicians...Professor Huajian Gao was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: https://www.amacad.org/newly-elected-members.

Research Article: Propagation of pop ups in kirigami shells

Submitted by Ahmad Rafsanjani on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 22:57

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kirigami

architected materials

mechanical metamaterials

Abstract:

A Simple Local Variational Iteration Method and Related Algorithm for Nonlinear Science and Engineering

Submitted by Xuechuan Wang on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 16:18

Local variational iteration method

Chebyshev polynomial

Collocation method

nonlinear differential equation

A very simple and efficient local variational iteration method for solving problems of nonlinear science is proposed in this paper. The analytical iteration formula of this method is derived first using a general form of first order nonlinear differential equations, followed by straightforward discretization using Chebyshev polynomials and collocation method. The resulting numerical algorithm is very concise and easy to use, only involving highly sparse matrix operations of addition and multiplication, and no inversion of the Jacobian in nonlinear problems.

Papers are invited for a special issue of journal Entropy

Submitted by Cemal Basaran on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 13:08

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Entropy; Damage; Plasticity; Fatigue; Fracture; Failure; Structural Health;

Special Issue"Entropy Based Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/fatigue

SES 2019 - Call for abstracts: Symposium on "Non-linear response of highly deformable structures"

Submitted by Huanyu Cheng on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 12:13

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Dear friends and colleagues,

We would like to welcome your ideas and invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium on Non-linear response of highly deformable structures (symposium 9.3 under the Track 9: Structural Mechanics, Metamaterials and Manufacturing) at the Society of Engineering Science (SES) that will be held at Washington University in St. Louis October 13-15, 2019.