Mechanically instructive biomaterials: a synergy of mechanics, materials and biology
Zhenwei Ma, Jianyu Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2025 Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation* Research Initiation Grants Awards: Prof. Vatsa Gandhi (University of California at Los Angles), Prof. Chase Hartquist (University of Florida), Prof. Junsoo Kim (Northwestern University), Prof. Emily Sanders (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Prof. Angkur JD Shaikeea (California Institute of Technology).
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2025 Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Awards: Victor Riera Naranjo (Georgia Institute of Technology), Omar M.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Ruike Renee Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, as the recipient of the 2026 Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate Professor Shaofan Li, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, as the recipient of the 2026 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.
Authors: Abhishek Arora, Caglar Oskay
It is known that the balance laws of hyperelasticity (Green elasticity), i.e., conservation of mass and balance of linear and angular momenta, can be derived using the first law of thermodynamics and by postulating its invariance under superposed rigid body motions of the Euclidean ambient space---the Green-Naghdi-Rivlin theorem. In the case of a non-Euclidean ambient space, covariance of the energy balance---its invariance under arbitrary time-dependent diffeomorphisms of the ambient space---gives all the balance laws and the Doyle-Ericksen formula---the Marsden-Hughes theorem.
J. Datta et al., Generative AI for Discovering Porous Oxide Materials for Next-Generation Energy Storage, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2025 [PDF]
As a type of shape-programmable soft materials, hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs) exhibit rapid and reversible deformations under applied magnetic fields, showing promise for soft robotics, flexible electronics, and biomedical devices. The realization of various controllable shape transformations is crucial to the rational design of relevant applications.
