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Dear Friends, 

The Soft Materials Mechanics Technical Committee would like to remind you that JULY 19^th is the deadline for presentation only abstract submission. The ASME will not extend this deadline!

Please consider submitting abstract to “Mechanics of Solids, Structures, and Fluids” Track (12), Topic 12-22, “Mechanics of Soft Materials”

 We are excited to host sessions related to the following topics:

Research opportunity in Adaptive Biomimetic Aircraft Structures, Solicitation Number: W911W6-17-R-0018 @ www.fbo.gov Response Date: Jul 14, 2017 2:00 pm Eastern

Link to the slides and hand-written notes: http://hdl.handle.net/10993/31585

Aalto University (Finland), Department of Mechanical Engineering, is looking for a doctoral student for a study on the breakage and fragmentation of ice blocks under compressive loads. The fragmentation process is complicated and requires the use of novel modelling methods that can be used reliably on different scales. In addition to the computational work, we will perform experiments on this topic. We start the work using our inhouse FEM-DEM code (other approaches can be also used), while the experiments will be performed in the cold room of our department.

We in Aalto Univeristy (Finland), Department of Mechanical Engineering, look for a post doc to join our group for a study on the breakage and fragmentation of ice blocks under compressive loads. The fragmentation process is complicated and requires the use of novel experiments and numerical models, and in this research, you will be working on both. The unique experiments on this topic will be performed in the cold room of the department.  Numerical modelling will be done on a variety of scales.

We developed a Matlab toolbox (https://github.com/stabix) to analyze strain transfer in bicrystal and polycrystal, using EBSD and nanoindentation experimental data.