Dear Computational Mechanics Community,

The USACM Student Chapter is holding elections for its Leadership Board. Applications are open for the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Member-at-Large positions, and you can apply for more than one!

To apply, you will need your CV (2 pages max) and answers to a few questions about why you want to join, what activities you would like to organize, and your vision for the chapter. No previous experience is required. Please submit everything through this form:

A Fresh Perspective on Multi-Material Design Exploration.
9 December | 10:00 AM CET (2:30 PM IST / 5:00 PM SGT)
Registration link and key takeaways in full view.

The School of Mechanics and Engineering Science at Peking University (PKU), Beijing, China, invites applications from outstanding international students for its 2027 English-taught Ph.D. programs.

We welcome motivated students with strong academic backgrounds and research interests in theoretical, computational, and experimental mechanics, as well as interdisciplinary engineering science.

Research areas include:

I submit for consideration the manuscript entitled “Finite-range cohesion and finite fracture increments in viscoelastic contact: a generalized-work formulation and two-dimensional benchmarks.”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/417487880

A fully funded PhD opportunity is available at University College London (UCL) through the UCL EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award (UELA).

The project, "Data-driven multiscale design and optimisation of aperiodic architected materials", will be carried out in close collaboration with and co-sponsored by Spherene AG, a company developing advanced aperiodic minimal-surface architectures for additive manufacturing.

📍Application deadline: 8 January 2027
📍Start date: 1 October 2027

Full details and application information are available in the advert.

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the next webinar in the Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Webinar Series.

Our upcoming webinar will be delivered by Prof. Ritu Raman (MIT):

"Tissue Engineering Biological Actuators for Biohybrid Robots"

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026

Time: 10:00 a.m. Boston / 3:00 p.m. London / 4:00 p.m. Paris / 11:00 p.m. Beijing

Discussion leader: Prof. Taher Saif (UIUC)

I submitted the manuscript "An Archard-type multiscale theory of hysteretic friction on viscoelastic half-planes, built on exact per-scale viscoelastic contact solutions" for consideration as a Regular Article.