Dear Members of the Mechanics and Materials Communities,
You may have known about the efforts of the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program of the National Science Foundation on revitalizing the practice of verification and validation (V&V) of computational models as a rigorous and indispensable step in the scientific investigative process.
Professor Yonggang Huang from Northwestern University is elected as an Honorary Member (2021) of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Each year ASME elects no more than 5 honorary members. Since 2000 the mechanicians elected to the honorary members include:
Research Fellow in High Resolution Microscopy of Engineering Alloys
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in High Resolution Microscopy of Engineering Alloys.
Post Doctoral Researcher in Computational Solid Mechanics
Applications are invited for a post doctoral researcher in computational solid mechanics.
How can shear loading rate affect the soft adhesive contact area? A new blog post in tribonet.org discusses the problem following the paper "Papangelo, Antonio. (2021). On the Effect of Shear Loading Rate on Contact Area Shrinking in Adhesive Soft Contacts. Tribology Letters. 69." just published in Tribology Letters.
We are seeking strongly motivated candidates to fill two Research Fellow positions in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The successful candidate will work on experimental studies in the area of cell mechanics, bioprinting, and bio-hybrid soft robotics. We are particularly interested in candidates with research experience in bioengineering, soft materials, mechanobiology and applied mechanics.
Required Qualifications:
In this work, superelastic and shape memory properties of single crystalline and polycrystalline yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia (YSTZ) nanoparticles are studied by atomistic simulations. N. Zhang and M. Asle Zaeem. Superelasticity and shape memory effect in zirconia nanoparticles. Extreme Mechanics Letters 46 (2021) 101301 (8 pages).
WANG TILES FOR MODULAR (META)MATERIALS
On June 11, 2021, in the framework of the PRIN2015 METAMATERIALS WEBINARS series, prof. Federico Bosia from Politecnico di Torino has held the webinar
ELASTIC METAMATERIALS FOR MULTISCALE APPLICATIONS, FROM SEISMIC SHIELDS TO NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING. The registration of the webinar is available here.
Dear iMechanicians,
We have contributed to the Special Issue organised by the Royal Society on occasion of the centenary of Griffith's seminal paper with a paper revisiting phase field fracture methods and their connection with conventional fracture mechanics theory. I hope that you find it of interest. (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2021.0021)
