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2022 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award - Kedar Kirane, Shelly Zhang, Ankit Srivastava

Submitted by Executive Comm… on

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is pleased to announce and congratulate

Dr. Kedar Kirane, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University;

Dr. Shelly Zhang, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical and Science Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;  and

Accretion and Ablation in Deformable Solids with an Eulerian Description: Examples using the Method of Characteristics

Submitted by Kiana Naghibzadeh on

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to see the preprint of our new paper "Accretion and Ablation in Deformable Solids with an Eulerian Description: Examples using the Method of Characteristics" which will appear in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. Recent work has proposed an Eulerian approach to the surface growth problem, enabling the side-stepping of the issue of constructing the reference configuration. However, this raises the complementary challenge of determining the stress response of the solid. To resolve this, the approach introduced the elastic deformation as an additional kinematic descriptor of the added material, and its evolution has been shown to be governed by a transport equation. Here, we applied the method of characteristics to solve concrete simplified problems motivated by surface growth in biomechanics and manufacturing (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10812865211054573)

Fully Funded Ph.D. Position in Computational Biomechanics at Villanova University for Spring or Fall 2022

Submitted by urala on

A fully funded Ph.D. position is available in the Computational Biomechanics and Solid Mechanics Laboratory  at Villanova University. The position is available as early as Spring 2022 until filled. The candidate will work on multiscale computational modeling of bone fracture. Candidates with a strong background and interest in biomechanics, solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, and computational modeling are encouraged to apply.

Global Composites Expert Webinar by Dr. Philippe Boisse

Submitted by Wenbin Yu on

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

Title: Fibrous Shell Approach and 3D Second Gradient Modeling for Textile Composite Draping 

Speaker: Dr.  Philippe Boisse

Time: 12/9, 11AM-12PM EST.

Please go to https://bit.ly/3l6LUgT to register for this webinar.

Call for Abstracts:USNC/TAM 2022: Computational Fracture, Fatigue and Damage Modeling

Submitted by trisha_sain on

Dear colleagues,

We'd like to cordially invite you to participate in the Minisymposium on "MS 308, Computational Fracture, Fatigue and Damage Modeling" at the 19th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM), to be held in Austin, Texas from June 19 to 24, 2022. The deadline for abstract submission is December 18th 2021.

A generalised phase field model for fatigue crack growth in elastic–plastic solids with an efficient monolithic solver

Submitted by Zeyad I Khalil on

Dear iMechanica Community, I hope that you find the below work of interest to you - We present a generalised phase field formulation for metallic fatigue, where cyclic deformation is modelled by means of a combined non-linear kinematic/isotropic hardening law. You can check it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.114286