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CIM (Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics) at Uppsala University in Sweden is recruiting PhD students for three of the seventeen projects announced. One of the announced projects are proposad by us to address elasto-hydro-dynamic analysis of architectured materials. If interested, please consider applying:

https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=596823

Dear Colleagues, 

I invite you to read our recent Extreme Mechanics Letters paper presenting a novel viewpoint on enhancing emissivity near exceptional point singularities in a non-Hermitian metamaterial. We present the experiments and numerical modeling in an elastodynamic framework--where the actuation forces from an actuator are enhanced by coupling to a passive dissipative non-Hermitian metamaterial--and present the theory further generalized and applicable to other physical frameworks from acoustics to optics and microwaves.

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https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Unified-Mechanics-Theory-Application...

I would like to share our recent paper entitled "Numerical investigation of aerothermoelastic characteristics of a thin heated panel in high supersonic and hypersonic flow" published in Acta Mechanica.

Please see attached for a postdoc opportunity at SUNY Buffalo. Any questions from potential applicants can be emailed to me directly.

Like Poisson’s effect, mechanical coupling is a directional indirect response by a directional input loading. With the advance in manufacturing techniques of 3D complex geometry, architected materials with unit cells of finite volume rather than a point yield more degrees of freedom and foster exotic mechanical couplings such as axial–shear, axial–rotation, axial–bending, and axial–twisting.

cdmHUB invites you to attend the Global Composites Experts Webinar Series. 

Title:  Fiber Orientation Prediction for Discontinuous Fiber Composites: Fundamentals and Future Trends

Speaker:  Professor Charles Tucker, UIUC

Time: 2/2, 11AM-12PM EST.

Darren C. Pagan a, Romain Quey b, Matthew P. Kasemer c

a Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 16802, US

b Mines Saint-Etienne, Univ. Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5307 LGF, F–42023 Saint-Etienne, France

c Mechanical Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL 35487, US

1. Introduction

The Department of Neurology, Dell Medical School, and the James T. Willerson Center for Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation, Oden Institute, have a jointly administered opening for a Post-doctoral Fellow in the area of Neurovascular mechanics derived from clinical images.

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We developed a method enabling a single material system to transform with untethered, reversible, low-powered reprogrammable deformations and shape locking via the application of magneto-thermomechanically triggered prestress on the Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs) and structural instability with asymmetric magnetic torque.

Dear fellow iMechanicians,

Here is our recent paper that studies and models the rheological behavior of PLA deposited by 3D printing and allows to highlight the important process parameters than enable a full healing of the interface between printed layers.

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Dear members of iMechanica, We are very pleased to announce the good health of the first overlay journal in Solid Mechanics, the so-called "Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics" Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics" which is a scholarly journal, provided on a Fair Open Access basis, without cost to both readers and authors. The Journal aims to select publications of the highest scientific caliber in the form of either original research or review in Solid Mechanics.

The new model of truss element is based on the same stress-strain curves of tension, compression, and shear with the hexahedron element under the equivalent external force. Comparing and analyzing a simply supported elastoplastic concrete beam with initial cracks by using the new element method and the finite element method, it can be found that the load-displacement curve, the load-crack opening displacement curve, the contour of the displacement under the various loads, and the distribution of the horizontal normal stress under the maximum load are all in good agreement.

For the plane stress problem and the spatial problem of the elasto-plastic analysis of concrete, a new truss element model is presented by using the deformations under the equivalent external forces are the same. Some examples is given, which is in good agreement with the calculation results of the solid element.

(Note: The model in this article is the world's top concrete model, much better than the concrete model provided by Ansys itself.)

 Open Access link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.1113

Intercalation Hosts for Multivalent-Ion Batteries

Wiley Small Structures [Link]

The transition between necking-mediated tensile failure of glasses, at elevated temperatures

and/or low strain-rates, and shear-banding-mediated tensile failure, at low temperatures and/or

high strain-rates, is investigated using tensile experiments on metallic glasses and atomistic simula-

tions. We experimentally and simulationally show that this transition occurs through a sequence of

macroscopic failure patterns, parametrized by the ultimate tensile strength. Quantitatively analyz-

Understanding the fracture toughness of glasses is of prime importance for

science and technology. We study it here using extensive atomistic simulations in

which the interaction potential, glass transition cooling rate, and loading geometry

are systematically varied, mimicking a broad range of experimentally accessible

properties. Glasses’ non-equilibrium mechanical disorder is quantified through

Ag, the dimensionless prefactor of the universal spectrum of non-phononic

We developed an inverse design method for constructing 3D reconfigurable architected structures — we synthesized modular origami structures whose unit cells can be volumetrically mapped into a prescribed 3D curvilinear shape followed by volumetric shrinkage for constructing modules. After modification of tubular geometry, we searched modular origamis’ geometry and topology for target mobility using a topological reconstruction of modules.

Traditionally dynamic analysis is done using Newton’s universal laws of the equation of motion. According to the laws of Newtonian mechanics, the x, y, z, space-time coordinate system does not include a term for energy loss, an empirical damping term “C” is used in the dynamic equilibrium equation. Energy loss in any system is governed by the laws of thermodynamics. Unified Mechanics Theory (UMT) unifies the universal laws of motion of Newton and the laws of thermodynamics at ab-initio level.