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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.

If you are interested, please send an email to me at: cvjmah@technion.ac.il with a single PDF file containing your CV, grades, names of two references, and a brief description of how your experience and background meet the requirements for this position.

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 Colleagues and Students,

International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM 2024) website is live now!

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic researcher to fill a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Quantum Scientific Computing at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering (FAMU-FSU COE) in Tallahassee, Florida. This exciting opportunity is directed towards highly motivated and enthusiastic researchers who are eager to contribute to cutting-edge projects in the realm of quantum computing and its applications in scientific problems.

Dear colleagues,

We are currently inviting abstract submissions to our symposium “Molecular scale modeling and experimentation” at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability (EMI/PMC) Conference that will be hosted in Chicago, IL on May 28-31, 2024.

CALL FOR PAPERS - 2024

Submission form: https://gjrpublication.com/submit-manuscript/

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The University of Pavia, together with Politecnico di Milano, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and University of Bologna, organizes the International Summer School “Mechanics of active soft materials: experiments, theory, numerics, and applications” within the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies.

Dear Colleagues, Within the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024) to be held in Daegu, South Korea, 25 – 30 Aug 2024,Vikram Pakrashi (University College Dublin - Ireland) and myself (Francesco Dal Corso, University of Trento - Italy) are organising the Thematic Session 'FS08 - Education in mechanics'. 

Is it possible to prevent the fall of a rod inside a sliding sleeve due to gravity?

By controlling the transverse oscillations of the constraint and revealing a novel self-tuning dynamic response, we provide a positive answer to this question in our paper:

Published in npj Computational Materials: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-023-01154-w

Published in Acta Materialia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135964542300784X

EMI/PMC 2024, Chicago, IL, 2024 – MiniSymposium #0103 “Mechanics of granular materials: Modeling and characterization”

Authors: Abhishek Arora, Amit Acharya

The Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering of the University of Genoa is offering a post-doc position within the 2-years reasearch project PRIN 2022 PNRR “A digital framework for the cutting of soft tissues: A first step towards virtual surgery” focused on multiscale modeling of the complete cutting process in human brain tissues.

At the University of Parma (Italy) a call for supporting students wishing

to apply to the prestigious Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship is now open.

Authors: Abhishek Painuly, Kunnath Ranjith and Avinash Gupta