Dear Colleagues,

The deadline for presentation only & poster abstracts for ASME IMECE 2024 is 7/16/2024.

You are kindly reminded to please consider submitting abstracts to the two symposiums hosted by the Mechanics of Soft Materials Technical Committee this year: Mechanics of Soft Materials (Topic 12-29) and Advances in Soft Material Modeling (Topic 12-30). Abstracts can be submitted following this link: https://imece.secure-platform.com/a/

We are in the time where big multi-centre projects with an ever-increasing number of scientists involved seem to multiply, and single scientist projects seem to die, apart from the happy island of ERC funding in Europe (probably NSF career funding in US?). I believe that with ERC funding and the direct call of ERC winners some European universities have taken a path of excellence to follow, while on multicentre big money projects they are less effective.

We have developed a mechanical transistor that synergizes a Kirigami thermomechanical sensor and a bistable actuator, enabling in-memory computing for combinational and sequential logic.

Our mechanical computing device stands out by employing modular construction, symmetry breaking, nonlinear materials, crafting logic gates and memory units responding to environmental stimuli through thermal delay.

Online - Advanced Functional Materials 

Dear Colleague,

I am very pleased to announce the third interdisciplinary international conference about Simulation Science from 7th to 9th May 2025 in Clausthal (Germany).

Attached please find the Call for Papers.

The workshop considers the broad area of modeling, simulation and AI with a focus on simulation of materials, simulations of socio-technical systems and simulation and optimization in networks.

Confirmed plenary speakers are:

I am happy to share our newest open access article which is published in Computational Materials Science. For the first time, we were able to create the t’ phase of yttria stabilized zirconia from its cubic phase through the process of rapid quenching by utilizing molecular dynamics simulations. The simulation of quenching process followed the experimental procedure, and the results of virtual XRD and RDF were comparable to the actual experiments, verifying the created phases.

Applicants are once again sought for PhD positions at Griffith University, Gold Coast (Australia).

If you are interested in a PhD in fibre-reinforced composite materials, structural health monitoring or NDT,  please contact me (w.hall [at] griffith.edu.au (w[dot]hall[at]griffith[dot]edu[dot]au)) with the following information:

* Brief CV/Resume

* List of publications (at least 2 engineering-related publications)

We invite extended abstracts (400-650 words) for presenting your works on mechanical metamaterials (MM) at ASME IMECE 2024. The MM symposium is included in the Track 1 acoustics, vibration, and Phononics this year. The deadline for the submission is 7/17.

https://event.asme.org/IMECE/Program/Tracks

Track 1: Acoustics, Vibration, and Phononics

01-01: Mechanical Metamaterials

As some of you may know, I recently announced that I would be stepping down as the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for the Elsevier journal titled Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (FINEL).  I had served in that capacity since 2010, so roughly 14 years, and the team at Elsevier indicated that it was time for someone new to take over the role.  Although I would have been more than happy to stay on, in time I did appreciate that it was probably better for the community to pass the reins on to someone else. 

Ph.D and Postdoc positions are available in Mechanics, Biomimetics, and 3D Priting lab at Northeastern University, Boston. Candidates will background in mechanics, materials, finite element analysis are all welcome to apply. 

Applicants can send the CV directly to Prof. Yaning Li 

Email: y.li [at] northeastern.edu