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Dear Colleagues:  the 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science will be hosted by Washington University in St. Louis on October 13-15, 2019. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a Symposium (7.3) to address recent experimental, computational, theoretical and manufacturing advances in the research area of Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials.

I came across a very interesting paper in Engineering Fracture Mechanics about a year ago. It gives some new results of stochastic aspects of fatigue. The paper is:

”On the distribution and scatter of fatigue lives obtained by integration of crack growth curves: Does initial crack size distribution matter?” by M. Ciavarella, A. Papangelo, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol 191 (2018) pp. 111–124.

Matthew P. O'Donnell, Jonathan P. Stacey, Isaac V. Chenchiah, Alberto Pirrera

Our group is part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Techion – Israel Institute of Technology, located in Haifa, Israel.

We employ theoretical and experimental tools to understand the relations between the micro-structure and the macroscopic response of soft materials. Materials of interest include electro-active polymers, 3D printed lattice structures, biopolymers, and gels.

Ph.D. research positions are available immediately in the Advanced Materials Research Lab at the University of Miami to perform NSF-funded research in the area of bio-inspired self-healing of cementitious materials. Highly motivated applicants are encouraged to send a CV to Dr. Ali Ghahremaninezhad via email at a.ghahremani@miami.edu.

The University of Limerick in the Republic of Ireland is seeking to recruit a: 

Lecturer/Lecturer below the bar in Mechanical & Aerospace Design Engineering

Contract Type: Lecturer – Multiannual

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit your abstract to our Special Session CC16. Structural Health Monitoring and Model Updating for Heritage Structures for The Sixteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering Computing (Civil-Comp 2019).

Date & Location: 16-19 September 2019, Riva del Garda Italy.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2019.

10th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE-2019)

Brussels, Belgium

Contact: 
For General Questions
Ms. Celine. Xi
E-mail: secretary@icmae.org

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We cordially invite your participation in a short course “Machine Learning Data-Driven Discretization Theories, Modeling and Applications” as part of the pre-congress activities of 15th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics Conference to be held on July 28, 2019 at Austin, Texas.

Postdoctoral Research Position: Development of a New Nanotomography Beamline at the Advanced Light Source

Abstract

The Research Group Mechanics of Adaptive Systems at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) announces the available post for a

Research Assistant (PhD candidate or Post Doc)

with 39,83 working hours per week (work rate 100%), start date: as soon as possible, employment duration 3 years

Tasks:

The last ESIS blog about how surprisingly few scientists are willing/able to share their experimental data, received an unexpectedly large interest. Directly after the publication another iMechanica blogger took the same theme but he put the focus on results produced at numerical analyses that are presented with insufficient information. While reading, my spontaneous guess was that one obstacle to do right could be the widespread use of commercial non-open codes.

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Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit your one-page abstract to our Symposium 3.9 Multiscale modeling of molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ mechanics for The 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES2019) 

Date & Location:

Please find our new publication in Physical Review Letters on Elastocapillar Crease. This paper has been highlighted by Editors Suggestion.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.098003

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In this work, we were able to improve existing residual stress measurement capabilities so that we could measure smaller length scales. We were able to measure residual stresses that oscillated from build layer to build layer (0.5 mm thick) in an additively manufactured part. The oscillations persisted over nearly 30 layers!

Dear colleagues:

     We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium on 3D/4D printed functional materials and structures at the 2019 Society of Engineering Science meeting to be held from October 13 to October 15 on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.

Details of the project and other information available in the attached document.

Apply online:

https://dap.qub.ac.uk/portal/user/u_login.php

Synopsys NE Ltd (https://www.synopsys.com/simpleware.html), Cardiff University and University of Luxembourg invites applications for 2 Early Stage Researcher position (Doctoral Candidate) as part of the Rapid Biomechanics and Simulation for Personalized Clinical Design (RAINBOW) MCSA European Training Network. RAINBOW is funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
 

The loss of connectivity in particle-based LiMO2 (M = Ni, Co, Al, and/or Mn) electrodes due to mechanical failure
and fracture at the interface between primary particles is one of the major causes of capacity fading in Li-ion
batteries (LIBs) after certain electrochemical cycles. In this study, a model of a secondary particle composed

I have an opening PhD Position at our Institute of Mechanics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany).
The candidate should work in the field of new solution algorithms for complex simulations.
Additionally, the willingnes of teaching (in english as well as in german) is premised.
Attached you will find the corresponding job advertisement.

https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CF.1943-5509.0001303

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061818322116 The mechanical behavior of masonry materials has a common feature: a nonlinear behavior with high compressive strength and very low tensile strength. As a consequence, old masonry buildings generally present cracks due to permanent loads and/or accidental events. Therefore, the characterization of the global dynamic behavior of masonry structures should take into account the presence of existing cracks.