We are organizing the symposium on "Computational Thermodynamics and kinetics" at the next TMS meeting to be held in San Diego from February 26- March 2, 2017.
Topics of choice for this year include, but are not limited to:
Advancements in computational techniques in thermodynamics and kinetics of defects, phase transformations, and microstructural evolution.
Call for Papers
Special Issue "Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer in Biological Systems and Clinical/Medical Applications" in Fluids (ISSN 2311-5521)
This book is an outgrowth of lecture notes of a graduate course on mechanics of soft materials that I teach since 2009. The interest in mechanics of soft materials is triggered by the development of new engineering and biomedical technologies. Mechanical behavior of soft materials is strongly nonlinear from both physical (constitutive equations) and geometrical (large deformations) standpoints and the standard texts on mechanics of materials are not enough in this case. The nonlinearities make the subject challenging yet rich and exciting.
A nice demonstration of toughening by introducing multiple secondary cracking of planes parallel with the primary crack is found in the paper:
Advanced energy materials hold one of the keys to fundamental advances in the conversion, storage, and harvesting of energy for a broad range of consumer electronics, automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. The successful development and deployment of these materials relies critically on a fundamental understanding of strongly coupled multiphysics phenomena. Mechanics of energy materials has emerged as a rapidly growing area of research that has significant technological implications in improving the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of energy infrastructure.
Please share this with any interested parties. Thank you - Rob Carpick
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We have 1-2 PhD positions for modeling the fracture and failure in nuclear materials. The funding comes from a collaborative project involving five universities and one national lab.
The students will have opportunities to work with experimentalists and other computational experts at USU and from the national lab.
Requirements:
1. For applicants with no degree from a English-Speaking country:
TOEFL >= 79 or IELTS >= 6 (and a minimum score of 5 on each subscale)
2. GRE verbal and quantitative scores (no minimum requirement)
Confirmed invited speakers:
Sheldon Brian (Brown University)
Sulin Zhang (Penn State University)
Ting Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Matt Pharr (UIUC)
Shuman Xia (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Vivek Shenoy (University of Pennsylvania)
Wayne Chen (Purdue University)
Yue Qi (Michigan State University)
Yuefei Zhang (Beijing University of Technology)
Shengping Shen (Xi'an Jiaotong University)
