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Call for nominations for the 2026 International Society of Materials Modeling Awards and Honors
Postdoc position at Oxford on experimental materials engineering (mechanical testing of metals, hydrogen embrittlement)
Postdoctoral fellowship in the area of crystal plasticity finite element modeling
Multi-objective topology optimization of heat pipe cooled reactor core subjected to thermo-mechanical loadings
A multiscale modeling framework for predicting the viscoelastic–plastic behavior of thin-walled composite deployable structures
Modeling viscoelasticity-viscoplasticity of high-strain composites for space deployable structures
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position in Computational Materials Science
ISTVectorPostProcessor
Postdoc in plant physiology and molecular biology of EV-based plant-microbe communication
USACM Short Course: The Phase-Field Approach to Brittle Fracture: Theory and Numerical Implementation: August 10-13, 2026

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ABAQUS UMAT
ABAQUS tutorial
Cauchy stress
Geometry & Mechanics
Large elastic deformation
Logarithmic strain
Mechanics of growth
Mesh-free methods
Objective rates of stress
Plastic potential
Poroelasticity
Stress and strain
Temperature
Timoshenko lectures
Viscoelasticity
Why is rubber incompressible?
Writing a paper
Writing a proposal
in situ Mechanics
tensor and its invariants
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