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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.

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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. 

Just published on JMPS

A Postdoctoral Fellow is sought to fill an immediate opening in the Gross Materials Lab at the University of South Carolina to work on a DARPA funded project. The postdoc will have the opportunity to attend regular meetings with DARPA and other DOD program managers. The research is focused on extracting yield surfaces from data rich full-field experimental information by solving an inverse problem. This research will be primarily computational and will integrate closely with a graduate student conducting experiments.

AbstractHigh-frequency micrometrical vibrations have been shown to greatly influence the adhesive performance of soft interfaces, however a detailed comparison between theoretical predictions and experimental results is still missing. Here, the problem of a rigid spherical indenter, hung on a soft spring, that is unloaded from an adhesive viscoelastic vibrating substrate is considered. The experimental tests were performed by unloading a borosilicate glass lens from a soft PDMS substrate excited by high-frequency micrometrical vibrations.

We are hiring a postdoc to work on the mechanics of solid state batteries. The postdoc will be based at the Mechanics of Materials Lab (Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) and work co-supervised by Profs Laurence Brassart and Emilio Martinez-Paneda. A close collaboration with experimentalists in the Pasta Group (Materials Department) is also expected.

Dear Colleagues,

The University of Wyoming is accepting applications for the Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Program, a two-year interdisciplinary research position focusing on AI applications in several selected areas. 

I am pleased to share our first open-access article of 2025! just published in #ActaMaterialia.

It turns out that friction coefficient 0.25 suggested as universal by Leonardo da Vinci more than 500 years ago has some universaility, as minimum friction coefficient for any granular material: it makes me proud as italian ;) I guess it would be interesting to show this experimental result also theoretically or numerically, any interest? [HTML] 

Interplay of Mechanics with Quantum Mechanics in Materials for Quantum Technologies

Swarnava Ghosh* and Tanvir Sohail

National Center for Computational Sciences

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States.

 *email: ghoshs@ornl.gov

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