There is an immediate PhD position available in the Reliability and Mechanics of Failure Lab (RMFLab) at George Mason University in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Candidates must have background in corrosion, fatigue, fracture, materials characterizations, and finite element modeling.

Interested candidates, please send letter of interest to mamirida [at] gmu.edu.

With funding from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the establishment of 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.

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, 2024.

The International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), based in Udine (Italy), has opened a call for applications to allow small groups of researchers in mechanics, two to four coming from different institutions, to spend two to four weeks at CISM during the year 2025 to start or to complete a joint research project.

Applicants should hold a PhD on a subject related to Mechanics, and there are no restrictions on their academic seniority.

An index has been proposed by Fiorillo (document attached).   

Many researchers and engineers view mechanical fatigue of metals as a stagnated field, evidenced by the lack of substantially novel design approaches against fatigue in recent decades. However, our current capability to investigate, probe, and model the multiscale mechanisms of fatigue damaging processes may turn out to be pivotal for next-generation paradigms for the assessment of fatigue.

I am happy to share our newest open access article which is just published in Scripta Materialia. For the first time, the mechanism of domain nucleation during ferroelastic domain switching is revealed by utilizing phase-field simulations. Due to relaxation of strain energy, the coherent domain walls of the surviving domains often form features like steps, crevices and corners, and nucleation of new domains primarily takes place at these sites in a repeated fashion. Our work described the mechanism of ferroelastic domain switching to be independent of the domain wall energy.

There is an immediate opening for a self-motivated PhD/MS student (Spring 2025) in the Aerospace Structures Reliability Laboratory at Auburn University, working with Dr. Wen Luo on modeling the stochastic nonlinear behaviors of aerospace structures and materials. Prospective students are welcome to contact Dr. Wen Luo at w-luo [at] auburn.edu.

The Manufacturing Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama is looking for a highly driven Visiting Research Professor to join the lab. Our group focuses on developing advanced surface engineering techniques, particularly laser-based methods, and conducting experiments to deepen our understanding of the microstructure-property-process relationship.

For a given material, \emph{controllable deformations} are those deformations that can be maintained in the absence of body forces and by applying only boundary tractions. For a given class of materials, \emph{universal deformations} are those deformations that are controllable for any material within the class.