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A one-week CISM Advanced School on "Mechanics of strain gradient materials", coordinated by Albrecht Bertram and Samuel Forest, will take place in Udine, Italy, next May 14th-18th.

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our pleasure to announce the coming seventh iteration of the Computational Materials Science Summer School at Texas A&M University, CMS3. The school will take place in College Station, TX from July 22 – Aug. 3, 2018.

This video  contains an experimental demonstration of a simple bending and torsion and further speculate the nature of stresses induced by the respective loading scenarios

Summer School on "Biomechanics, from Protein to Tissue to Organ: Modeling and Computation" in Graz, Austria

This video gives a basic introduction to von mises stress, which is widely used in the structural analysis & design.

The 6th edition of the intensive course on Digital Image Correlation (DIC) will take place on 11-15 Jne 2018 à Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. The course is composed of a number of lectures, data processing sessions and labs. The number of participants is limited to 20 for maximal interaction with the teaching team. More information here.

This video gives a basic overview of the most fundamental hardening models of plasticity, which are the isotropic and kinematic hardening

Hope this helps!

- Prithivi

In introducing the very concept of the stress tensor to the beginning student, text-books always present only indirect relations involving the concept. Thus, you have the relations like "traction = (stress-transposed)(unit normal)" (i.e. Cauchy's formula, for uniform stress), or the relations for the coordinate transformations of the stress tensor, or the divergence theorem (for non-uniform stress). These are immediately followed or interspersed with alternative notations, and the rules for using them.

But what you never ever get to see, in text-books or references, is this: a *direct* definition of the stress tensor, i.e. an equation in which there is only the stress tensor on the left hand-side, and some expression involving some *other* quantities on right hand-side. Why? What possibly could be the conceptual and pedagogical advantages of giving a direct definition of this kind, and its physical meaning? I would like to ponder on these matters here, giving my answers to these and similar questions in the process.

Level: Ph.D, start from Fall 2018
When: Apply Now by sending CV to  yaning.li@unh.edu
Fellowship: Deadline 02/25/2018.  (again directly sending CV to yaning.li@unh.edu) https://ceps.unh.edu/graduate-fellowships
Project: NSF/CAREER award on Chiral Auxetic Composites

We would like to announce An ECCOMAS Advanced Course on Computational Structural Dynamics 2018, shortcourse2018.it.cas.cz . The short course on computational structural dynamics will be held form June 4 to June 8, 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.

We have new openings for two PhD students –fully funded - in the Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Bioinspiration at McGill University, starting Fall 2018 (Application deadline: 01/15/2018)

Applications are invited for a PhD position at Johns Hopkins University (beginning Fall 2018) on a collaborative project between the labs of Extreme Mechanics of Architected Materials (Prof. Stavros Gaitanaros) and Mechanochemistry And Functional Imaging Applications (Prof. Yun Chen) at Johns Hopkins University.
The project will focus on the combination of multi-scale modeling and experiments in order to examine the mechanical behavior of DNA origami nanostructures.

A fully funded PhD scholarship exists in the area of Mechanics of Materials, endowed in honour of Prof M F Ashby. The successful applicant will have a 1st class degree (and ideally a Masters degree) in an appropriate field. The precise topic of the PhD can be fixed after the scholarship has been awarded.

Further details may be obtained from Ms Hambro-Fernandez (Div-C@eng.cam.ac.uk)

This video explains the very fundamental points with regard to plasticity theory. It covers the following -

1) Why study plasticity ?

2) Additive decomposition of strain

3) stress and strength

4) Yield condition , flow rule & hardening rule

-Prithivi

Details in the attached file

Looking for prospective PhD students with strong background in solid mechanics and numerical methods to join the Computational Mechanics and Multiphysics Group at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Background in modeling contact or contact mechanics is a big plus but not essential.  

The research scope is in the broader areas of mechanics driven multiphysics in morphogenesis/embroyogenesis phenomena (Biophysics) and microstructure evolution in metallic alloys.