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Postdoctoral research associate positions are available in the Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Physics Departments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The postdoctoral researchers will work with Professors Serife Tol, Ellen Arruda, Xiaoming Mao, and Anthony Waas on a new project sponsored by DARPA. These postdoctoral researchers will be collectively mentored by the aforementioned faculty members on the team.

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to see the preprint of our new paper "Statistical mechanics of a dielectric polymer chain in the force ensemble" that will appear in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Here we compute the electroelasticity of single polymer chains using both analytical approximations and novel MCMC techniques. Working in the fixed force ensemble facilitates the derivation of the analytical approximations, which are shown to agree well with the MCMC results. This work complements prior work on the statistical mechanics of dielectric polymers chains obtained in a different ensemble. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104658).

We address the challenging issue of simultaneously finding transverse shear and normal stresses at all points in a plate from a priori known values of the in-plane stresses at plate’s interior points. The principle of virtual work is employed to equate the work done by the transverse stresses to the difference between the work done by the external forces (applied surface tractions and body forces) and that by the in-plane stresses.

Job Title: Assistant/Associate Professor

Location of Position: Blacksburg, Virginia

Employing Institution: Virginia Tech

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to attend mini-symposium 327: Mechanics of Polymeric Gels. The 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics will be held in Austin, Texas, June 19–24, 2022 (www.usnctam2022.org/).

Our symposium welcomes experimental, theoretical, and computational talks that discuss mechanics of polymeric gels (see https://www.usnctam2022.org/MS_327 )

Please note that the deadline for abstracts is December 18, 2022.

Synopsys are running a webcast with Dr. Daniel Wiznia of the Yale School of Medicine this November 2nd - it will cover how Simpleware software is used for personalized treatments being developed using different 3D clinical image analysis techniques, including 3D printing.

More details available here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/351171237776130062?source=ime…

Nanyang Technological University invites highly qualified candidates for the position of Chair, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

The candidate will have a unique opportunity to lead the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), one of the top engineering schools in the world to meet the evolving educational and research needs at a global and local (Singapore) level.