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Dear colleagues,

We invite you to see the preprint of our new paper "Accretion and Ablation in Deformable Solids with an Eulerian Description: Examples using the Method of Characteristics" which will appear in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. Recent work has proposed an Eulerian approach to the surface growth problem, enabling the side-stepping of the issue of constructing the reference configuration. However, this raises the complementary challenge of determining the stress response of the solid. To resolve this, the approach introduced the elastic deformation as an additional kinematic descriptor of the added material, and its evolution has been shown to be governed by a transport equation. Here, we applied the method of characteristics to solve concrete simplified problems motivated by surface growth in biomechanics and manufacturing (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10812865211054573)

Brno, Czech Republic, 6th-10th Feb. 2022
Participation in the winter school is free! (both in presence or online)

A fully funded Ph.D. position is available in the Computational Biomechanics and Solid Mechanics Laboratory  at Villanova University. The position is available as early as Spring 2022 until filled. The candidate will work on multiscale computational modeling of bone fracture. Candidates with a strong background and interest in biomechanics, solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, and computational modeling are encouraged to apply.

cdmHUB invites you to attend the Global Composites Experts Webinar Series. 

Title: Fibrous Shell Approach and 3D Second Gradient Modeling for Textile Composite Draping 

Speaker: Dr.  Philippe Boisse

Time: 12/9, 11AM-12PM EST.

Please go to https://bit.ly/3l6LUgT to register for this webinar.

One PhD position is available in the Computational Cardiovascular Bioengineering Lab (C2BL) at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University for Summer/Fall 2022 entry. The position will focus on cardiac imaging, inverse modeling, and machine learning.

Dear colleagues,

We'd like to cordially invite you to participate in the Minisymposium on "MS 308, Computational Fracture, Fatigue and Damage Modeling" at the 19th US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM), to be held in Austin, Texas from June 19 to 24, 2022. The deadline for abstract submission is December 18th 2021.

Dear iMechanica Community, I hope that you find the below work of interest to you - We present a generalised phase field formulation for metallic fatigue, where cyclic deformation is modelled by means of a combined non-linear kinematic/isotropic hardening law. You can check it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.114286

Hi all,

We at iDICs (International Digital Image Correlation Society) are thrilled to invite you to join the most recent DVC (Digital Volume Correlation) challenge! The DVC Challenge 2.0 has two sub-challenges. The first part is an interlaboratory study on the temporal stability of laboratory X-ray Computed Tomography systems. The second part is to identify available experimental and synthetic images and develop a standardized set of high-quality and other challenging datasets from different imaging modalities, which will be further used for DVC code assessment.