The research is concerned with modeling of electroactive soft materials.
Preference will be given to candidates with background in nonlinear finite element methods and constitutive modeling.
The lab of Wave Engineering for eXtreme and Intelligent matTEr (We-Xite) has multiple openings for Pos-Doc, Ph.D. and M.Sc. positions. We are looking for exceptional and highly motivated candidates with background in Engineering, Physics, Materials or Mathematics. The research will have a balance between experimental characterizations, numerical simulations, and analytical derivations. Interested applicant should send a brief (one paragraph) description of their research interests and their resumes (including educational background, test scores and experience). Please send your emails to osama.bilal [at] uconn.edu with title including [iMechanica].
Dear Colleagues,
We cordially invite you to submit an abstract to our Mini-Symposium: MS1815, "Machine learning algorithms for accelerating material characterization, discovery, design, and manufacturing processes," for the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-PANACM 2024) held on July 21-26, 2024, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The deadline for submission of Abstracts is January 15, 2024.
The fully nonlinear (geometric and material) system of Field Dislocation Mechanics is reviewed to establish an exact analogy with the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (ideal MHD) under suitable physically simplifying circumstances. Weak solutions with various conservation properties have been established for ideal MHD recently by Faraco, Lindberg, and Szekelyhidi using the techniques of compensated compactness of Tartar and Murat and convex integration; by the established analogy, these results would seem to be transferable to the idealization of Field Dislocation Mechanics considered. A dual variational principle is designed and discussed for this system of PDE, with the technique transferable to the study of MHD as well.
We study the geometric phases of nonlinear elastic $N$-rotors with continuous rotational symmetry. In the Hamiltonian framework, the geometric structure of the phase space is a principal fiber bundle, i.e., a base, or shape manifold~$\mathcal{B}$, and fibers $\mathcal{F}$ along the symmetry direction attached to it. The symplectic structure of the Hamiltonian dynamics determines the connection and curvature forms of the shape manifold. Using Cartan's structural equations with zero torsion we find an intrinsic (pseudo) Riemannian metric for the shape manifold.
Dear friends of iMechanica,
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the Computational Geomechanics Minisymposium (MS 0501) at the 2024 EMI/PMC Conference.
Please consider submitting an abstract to mini-symposium #0117 at EMI/PMC 2024 (https://www.emi-conference.org/).
The mini-symposium is organized by Alessandro F. Rotta Loria (Northwestern University), Ryan Hurley (Johns Hopkins University), and Marcial Gonzalez (Purdue University.
Abstract submission is open until December 31, 2023, available at https://www.emi-conference.org/call-abstracts
The mini-symposium description is below:
Dear Colleagues and Students,
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