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Call for Nominations for ASME Applied Mechanics Division Awards (approaching deadline)

Submitted by Executive Comm… on

 

Dear Colleagues,

We wanted to alert you of the approaching deadline for the nomications of the awards of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME): October 1st, 2016.

PhD position on the mechanics of living epithelial materials in Barcelona

Submitted by Marino Arroyo on

We are seeking applications for a PhD position at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Spain. The applicant will develop mathematical models, perform numerical simulations, and closely interact with experimental collaborators to quantitatively understand various aspects of single cells and epithelial tissues, pertinent to mechanobiology and to the mechanics of living materials.

CISM-AIMETA Advanced School DYNAMIC STABILITY AND BIFURCATION IN NONCONSERVATIVE MECHANICS

Submitted by Oleg Kirillov on

Davide Bigoni and Oleg Kirillov co-ordinate the CISM-AIMETA Advanced School on
DYNAMIC STABILITY AND BIFURCATION IN NONCONSERVATIVE MECHANICS
The course will be held at CISM in Udine on April 10-14 2017

Invited Lecturers

Davide Bigoni - Università di Trento, Italy


6 lectures on: The experimental realization of follower forces and the
evidence of flutter and divergence instability. How to experimentally
attack the problem of the Ziegler paradox. Flutter and friction. Flutter
in continuous media: the case of granular materials.

Tenured or Track Faculty Positions Available; Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Texas A&M University

Submitted by TAMU Materials… on

TENURED or TENURE-TRACK: ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE OR FULL PROFESSOR (2 positions)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering-Full-time position

PhD STUDENTSHIP (FSI), URV Tarragona, Spain

Submitted by fhuera on

The Laboratory for Fluid-Structure Interaction (LIFE) (http://www.etseq.urv.es/life) of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) (www.urv.cat) in Tarragona (Spain), is looking for an enthusiastic research student with a strong interest in fluid dynamics. Successful candidates will join a small but very active multidisciplinary team, working in fluid-structure interaction problems.

SIMULIA Regional User Meetings

Submitted by Twebb83 on

There will be more than 20 meetings held around the world. 

Topics will cover linear and nonlinear Finite Element Analysys, Contact, Multiphysics, Multscale, Optimization, Simulation for Additive Manufacturing and ore.

Learn about the newest features in Abaqus, Isight, Simpack, fe-Safe, Tosca

Check out the worldwide schedule here:

http://www.3ds.com/company/events/simulia-regional-user-meetings/

Simpleware Version 2016.09 Now Available

Submitted by Simpleware on

We are happy to bring you the latest version of Simpleware – the 2016.09 release adds a number of new features to the previous version of the software and offers many improvements for users, with applications ranging from medical image processing to materials and industrial analysis.

What's in this new release?

The new release significantly extends core software features and makes it faster and easier to complete even the most complex 3D image to model workflows.

New features and improvements of version 2016.09 include:

SES2016 Technical Program is now available online

Submitted by Teng Li on

 

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the technical program of the 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES2016) is now available online at 

http://ses2016.org/tracks-symposia/

(Click the link to individual symposia for detailed technical program)