Dear colleagues,

it is our great pleasure to announce the third International Teaching Staff Week of the Simulation Science Center Clausthal-Göttingen. The event will take place online from March 21 to 25, 2022. During the Teaching Staff Week, lecturers from abroad will offer courses in the field of simulation for material sciences. This year, the lecturers and topics are as follows:

Prof. Dr. Yudi Rosandi (Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia):

Dear all,

There is a vacancy at the TU Delft for a position of PhD cantidate in the field of sustainable structural concrete. Full add is available at: https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/deta… 

A postdoctoral position in Engineering Optimization is available at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. The position is for one year and can be extended for up to 30 months. It is funded by Czech Science Foundation project No. 22-15524S. The postdoctoral candidate will work on an engineering optimization project with applications in structural dynamics.

Spider silk is an incredible material!
Check out our new paper at Physical Review Letters:

Dear Colleagues,

We are still inviting submissions to our thematic session on ‘Multiphysics Problems’ at the 42^nd Solid Mechanics Conference (SOLMECH) combined with the 24^th Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics in Swinoujscie (Poland), September 5-8, 2022 http://cmm-solmech.ippt.pan.pl/index.html . Please see more details in the attached PDF.

Dear iMechanicians, I hope that you find the below work interesting. We have developed a phase field-based computational framework for predicting fatigue crack nucleation and growth in Shape Memory Alloys. The model captures the role of transformation stresses, stress-strain hysteresis, and temperature. And this is demonstrated by computing Δε − N curves, quantifying Paris law parameters, and predicting fatigue crack growth rates in several geometries, including the fatigue failure of a 3D lattice structure. 

Liquid Nanofoam: Past, Present and Future

Mingzhe Li and Weiyi Lu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University

1. Introduction

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The motion of filament-like structures in fluid media has been a topic of interest since long. In this regard, a well known slender body theory exists wherein the fluid flow is assumed to be Stokesian while the filament is modeled as a Kirchhoff rod which can bend and twist but remains inextensible and unshearable. In this work, we relax the inextensibility and unshearability constraints on filaments, i.e., the filament is modeled as a special Cosserat rod.