Ph.D. position at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.  The research is concerned with the modeling of failure and fracture in soft materials and biological tissues.  Preference will be given to candidates with background in nonlinear finite element methods and constitutive modeling. If you are interested, please send an email to me at: cvolokh [at] technion.ac.il (cvolokh[at]technion[dot]ac[dot]il) with a single PDF file containing

It is my pleasure to solicit nominations for the "Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty". This award, launched in 2012, is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. While interdisciplinary work that bridges mechanics with physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines is encouraged, the ideal awardee will demonstrate clear inspiration from mechanics in his/her research.

EML Webinar (Season 2) on 4 August 2021 will be given by Takao Someya on electronic skins for biomedical applications. Host: John A. Rogers, Northwestern University

Time: 9 am Boston, 2 pm London, 9 pm Beijing on 4 August 2021

Zoom Link: https://ter.ps/EMLWebinarS2

Live streaming on YouTube: https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

Universal deformations of an elastic solid are deformations that can be achieved for all possible strain-energy density functions and suitable boundary conditions. They play a central role in nonlinear elasticity and their classification has been mostly accomplished for isotropic solids following Ericksen's seminal work. Here, we address the same problem for transversely isotropic, orthotropic, and monoclinic solids.

With funding from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant Program, targeting university faculty engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics that are at the beginning of their academic careers. Applicants must hold a tenure‐track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor at a US university on October 1, 2021, and must not be more than 5 years beyond receipt of their doctoral degree at the time the award is made

We are happy to announce the 2021 SES Meeting to be held in October. This year’s SES Meeting is an exciting departure from conventional virtual conferences. It will be organized as a Virtual Month (https://socengsci.org/ses-virtual-month/) spread over five days (October 1, 5, 15, 19, and 29). Each day will be a theme, which includes a fishbowl event, presentation, and poster session. A fishbowl is similar to a panel discussion, but with more interaction and informality.

A fully funded PhD position in close collaboration with the manufacturing industry is immediately available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at École de Technologie Saupérieure, Montréal, Canada.  
 
The selected candidate is required to:
- have B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering – Solid Mechanics,
- be talented, highly motivated, responsible, organized, and creative,
- have a strong background in Finite Element Method (FEM),
- have solid knowledge about deformation (stress-strain) analysis,

Dear Colleagues,

We wanted to alert you for the call for nominations of the awards of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which are due on September 15th, 2021.

EML Webinar (Season 2) on 16 July 2021 will be given by Dae-Hyeong Kim on Unconventional Bioelectronoics for Heart and Brain Diseases. Host: John A. Rogers, Northwestern University

Time: 9:30 am Boston, 2:30 pm London, 9:30 pm Beijing on 14 July 2021

Zoom Link: https://ter.ps/EMLWebinarS2

Live streaming on YouTube: https://ter.ps/EMLYouTubeLV

We review some recent approaches to modeling failure and fracture of soft materials. By failure we mean the onset of damage via material instability. By fracture we mean further localization of damage into cracks with their subsequent propagation.