Professor John Rogers, Swanlund Chair Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations to John!
Here is the link to the NAS press release: http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/april-28-2015-NAS-Election.html
Professor Kenneth M. Liechti of the University of Texas at Austin has been selected to recieve the 2015 Award for Excellence in the Adhesion Society. The Adhesion Society’s Award for Excellence, sponsored by 3M, is the Society’s premier award for outstanding achievements in scientific research relating to adhesion.
Congratulations to Ken!
Professsor Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar of the University of Texas at Austin has been selected to receive the 2015 Daniel C. Drucker Medal, one of the ASME society awards for achievement.
The US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) is calling for nominations for the Gallagher Young Investigator Medal. The description from the USACM Awards page reads:
Dear all,
Why we have an oscillating behaviour when calculating stress in FEM?
I saw the sentences in the paper:
'Another reason is that stresses are less accurately predicted than strains in FE simulations. Calculated stresses do also show a tendency for an oscillating behaviour, especially in dynamic explicit simulations.'
'stress is less accurate predicated than strain' is easier to understand, but I was wondering the existence of oscillating behaviour for calculating stress.
Any comments are welcome.
Dear colleagues,
Consider a simple non-linear elastic material with stress given as
σ = D(εdev) εdev + B εiso
where εdev is the norm of εdev, D is a function of εdev and B is constant. The material is isotropic since the principal directions of σ and ε will coincide.
Professor Wei Lu received the 2014 Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award. This award was presented to Dr. Lu by the president of ASME, jointly with the president of Pi Tau Sigma, during the 2014 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition.
It is my pleasure to solicit nominations for the "Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty". This award, launched in 2012, 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. While interdisciplinary work that bridges mechanics with physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines is encouraged, the ideal awardee will demonstrate clear inspiration from mechanics in his/her research.
It is with great sadness that we post this entry. Ted Belytschko passed away early this morning, 15 September 2014.
