As the Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (TAFMech, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-and-applied-fracture-mechanics/), this post is to invite you all to attend our first free global live webinar on Fracture Mechanics-related topics that will take place this Friday (15/1) at 2 pm GMT:

Prof. David McDowell – Georgia Tech Institute for Materials, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Dear Colleagues,

Here is our recent paper published in EML on collective behavior in solid-state photoreaction. Combining statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics, we build a model to predict and explain multiple collective behaviors reported in experiments of solid-state photoreaction for the first time.

Collective behavior in the kinetics and equilibrium of solid-state photoreaction

Ruobing Bai, Ying Shi Teh, Kaushik Bhattacharya*

The current push toward lightweight structures in aerospace and aeronautical engineering is leading to slender design airfoils, which are more likely to undergo large deformation, hence experiencing geometrical nonlinearities. The problem of vibration localization in a rotor constituted by N coupled airfoils with plunge and pitch degrees of freedom subjected to flutter instability is considered.

Recently, Dalvi and co-authors have shown detailed experimental data of adhesion of soft spheres with rough substrates with roughness measured down to almost the atomic scale, finding that the Persson and Tosatti theory gave satisfactory predictions of the apparent work of adhesion during loading, once the increase of the surface area due to roughness is correctly computed at extremely small scales.

Specifically, the post requires expert knowledge in experimental and/or computational mechanics of materials and/or tribology. The position is part of a large international EPSRC-SFI funded project aimed at developing next generation textile triboelectric nanogenerators (or T-TENGs) for powering of wearable electronics.  This position will focus on the mechanics and tribology of T-TENGs and will involve both modelling and experimental work.

Brief. One full-time PhD positions on "Fibre-reinforced Composites (manufacturing, non-destructive testing, and finite element analysis)" is available. The successful candidate will be working within a team of post-docs on an aerospace project.

Minimum Requirements. High GPA and a track record of high quality relevant publications.

Location. Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia.

Funding. Full funding is available for one candidate. 

 2 Ph.D. positions in Computational Mechanics in Luxembourg 

University of Connecticut has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher.  The research project, sponsored by AFRL, concerns uncertainty quantification of manufacturing processes.  Required qualifications include good command of finite element analysis and related programming capability.  Preferred skills include knowledge on meta-modeling and understanding of machine learning.  Please contact Professor Jiong Tang (jiong.tang [at] uconn.edu (jiong[do

Dear Friends of EML,

Happy New Year! 

2020 was an extremely challenging year for all because of COVID 19. For most of us, the lockdowns and work from home negatively impacted our research activities; for some, it provided a time to reflect on the value of our work; and, for a few, it presented an unusual opportunity to explore new directions of research.