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It gives me great pleasure to announce the outcome of the 2024 competition for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. This award is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. The selection committee consisted of: K. Ravi-chandar (UT Austin), Huajian Gao (Brown University), G.

Our latest paper, " Exploring the Effects of Temperature, Transverse Pressure, and Strain Rate on Axial Tensile Behavior of Perfect UHMWPE Crystals Using Molecular Dynamics," is accessible freely for 50 days from this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1kT-A4rCEkw1es

The key findings can be summarized as follows:

Fully-funded PhD opportunity at the Durham University Department of Engineering! Topology optimisation for fibre-reinforced polymer composites.

Details are available here: 
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/machine-learning-enhanced-topology...

Ph. D positions are open with starting dates of Fall 2025, in ‘Mechanics, Biomimetic, and 3D/4D Printing’ research lab in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) at Northeastern University, Boston.

A Postdoc position is open as well and can start any time.

The students and researchers will work on research projects related to the mechanics of new materials, including architected materials, additive manufactured materials, under the instruction of Professor Yaning Li.

Advanced Course on "Crack Initiation and Failure in Complex Structures: Finite Fracture Mechanics and related fracture models"

The advanced CISM Course will be organized in Udine, Italy, on June 9-13, 2025

Website: https://cism.it/en/activities/courses/C2505/

Lecturers:

We welcome submissions to Computational Geomechanics at the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. This is a late addition.The conference will be in Chicago, July 20-24, 2025. Full description below. We would love to have contributions from you, your students, or your collaborators in this area. The abstract submission deadline has been extended to January 31.

SOLID MECHANICS SYMPOSIUM – Call for Abstracts & Papers

May 25-28, 2025

École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal (QC)

"Advanced numerical modelling and simulation of vesicle dynamics using phase-field and isogeometric analysis" - January 31, 2025, Friday, 3:00 pm, Pavilhão de Mecânica II, amphitheatre AM

Date: January 31, 2025, Friday
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Pavilhão de Mecânica II, amphitheatre AM

Dear colleagues  As fellows in fracture mechanics, you may be interested in these comments on a recent very nice Nature paper by the group of Jay Fineberg, making clever experiments to measure nucleation of small cracks in frictional interfaces of PMMA, and their propagation velocity during nucleation and later rapid acceleration.   Fineberg derives a threshold shear stress for nucleation which depends on the specimen width which seems new in fracture mechanics to me, but does not entirely convince me, see in the text.   If you have any comments please let me know, I would be glad to discus

Postdoc Hiring!

SUCSHM Lab, IIT Hyderabad invites applications for the position of Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellow) for a DRDO-funded project on "Modelling and establishment of various process parameters for PCS fibers and modelling of PCS-SiC conversion process".

Essential Qualifications:
Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics/Applied Mathematics/Applied Mechanics/Mechanical Engineering or related fields with prior experience in continuum mechanics.

A research fellow position is available at University of Pavia in Italy (contract starting next March 2025). Deadline for application: January 30, 2025.

two PhD positions in our team working on 1) multiscale modeling of brain biomechanics and 2) machine learning-accelerated virtual testing. 

Please forward the information to anybody you know who may be interested. Kindly note the application deadline is Jan 24.

Full description & contact: see attached document
University & laboratory: University of Lyon, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS), Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat (ENTPE), Géomatériaux et Constructions Durables (GCD).
Location: Lyon, France
Period: 4-year China Scholarship Council scholarship application (only chinese student application)

Came across this conference in Lisbon, Portugal, which may be of interest for some here: https://symcomp2025.isel.pt/

VII International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Developments and Applications (SYMCOMP2025). Conference will take place in April 2025, abstracts submission is open until  February 7th, 2025.

You're welcome.

Link:    https://a

Webinar

January 16; 3pm EST

Speaker: Amanda Howard (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Title: Multifidelity, domain decomposition, and stacking for improving training for physics-informed networks

In this recent EML paper, we show the stark effect of curvature on the performance of metamaterials, both in the static and dynamic domains. Read more at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2024.102285

Dear colleagues,  

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the invited mini-symposium we are organizing entitled "Computational Techniques for Nanocomposite and Nanostructured Materials Modeling" at COMPLAS 2025.  

A post-doc and a PhD position are available at the Multiscale Mechanics and Multiphysics of Materials Lab at the University of Brescia, https://m4lab.unibs.it/. Candidates will work with an international team, in a friendly and hard-working environment.

Applications are invited for a Ph.D. studentship in the Departments of Aeronautics. The research project will be supervised by Dr V.L. Tagarielli and Prof F. Montomoli and it will involve collaboration with Baker Hughes (Florence, Italy) and the Brahmal Vasudevan Institute for Sustainable Aviation.

Nonlinear continuum mechanics allows solving problems beyond the scope of the theory of linear elasticity for solids and the Navier-Stokes theory for fluids. The success of the nonlinear continuum mechanics would be impossible, of course, without its happy marriage to numerical methods that flourished after the computer revolution. Nowadays, the nonlinear continuum approach is used to model fracture.

I am happy to share our paper entitled 'Effect of notch root radius on apparent fracture toughness of Ti6Al4V alloy: experiments and simulations' recently published in International Journal of Fracture.