Dear colleagues,
I would like to remind you about the 35th Annual Robert J. Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Computational Mechanics that will be held at Duke University on October 14, 2024.
Position details: The Autonomy and Intelligence of Materials and Structures (AIMS) group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Alabama has an opening for a PhD student starting from Spring 2025. The research theme for this position is Mechanics and Manufacturing of Architected Devices. Students with the following profile will be considered.
Qualifications:
Dera iMechanica Community,
Below is information about a short course I will be offering at MIT this summer, in Live Virtual format: Machine Learning for Materials Informatics (Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2024). This is an exciting opportunity that will cover fundamentals and applications in the emerging space of AI/ML for engineering, featuring hands-on interactive code development in Jupyter notebooks. We'll do a deep dive into all critical tools from autoencoders to graph neural nets to multimodal LLMs and multi-agent modeling. Please reach out to me if you have any questions.
Dear colleague
Dear colleagues, our new article (open access) is just published in Acta Materialia. In this research, we provide new insights into the mechanism of ferroelastic deformation by studying the evolution of domains in different microstructure patterns and under different loading directions and strain rates.
A. Bhattacharya and M. Asle Zaeem. A phase-field model for study of ferroelastic deformation behavior in yttria stabilized zirconia. Acta Materialia (2024) 120039.
We are looking for an enthusiastic student with a MSc degree to conduct research in the area of Machine Learning and finite element modelling of materials. Students with a degree in mechanical or materials engineering or mathematics are encouraged to apply.
Prospective candidates will be assessed based on how well they meet the following criteria:
Excellent degree in their relevant discipline.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
The following skills are desirable:
Suraj Ravindran
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
1. Introduction
Morphing soft matter, which is capable of changing its shape and function in response to stimuli, has wide-ranging applications in robotics, medicine and biology. Recently, computational models have accelerated its development. Here, we highlight advances and challenges in developing computational techniques, and explore the potential applications enabled by such models.
Yifan Yang, Fan Xu*
Nature Computational Science, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00647-y
For a given class of materials, universal deformations are those deformations that can be maintained in the absence of body forces and by applying solely boundary tractions. For inhomogeneous bodies, in addition to the universality constraints that determine the universal deformations, there are extra constraints on the form of the material inhomogeneities—universal inhomogeneity constraints. Those inhomogeneities compatible with the universal inhomogeneity constraints are called universal inhomogeneities.
