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Viscoelastic materials are receiving increasing attention in soft robots and pressure sensitive adhesives design, but also in passive damping techniques in automotive and aerospace industry. Here, by using the correspondence principle originally developed by Lee and Radok and further extended by Ting and Greenwood, we transform the elastic solutions of Persson for contact of nominally flat but randomly rough surfaces to viscoelastic indentation. As an example, the cases of step loading and of the response to a single cycle of harmonic loading are studied.

Multiscale Simulation Research Center (MSRC), with Departments of Mechanical, Civil, and Chemical Engineering at Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India is organizing a three days International Conference on “Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Techniques in Engineering and Sciences[RAMSTES-2021]” to be held on 8-10, December 2021 at MUJ. Keynote speakers in the program include Prof. Ravi Chander K., University of Texas, Austin, Prof. Vishnu Pareek, Dean of Engineering, CurtinUniversity, Australia, Prof.

Two fully-funded PhD positions are available in the lab of smart manufacturing and smart materials at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the area of scientific machine learning and additive manufacturing. Our research concentrates on the development of physics-based machine learning and its application for computational design of functional materials, and multiscale and multiphysics modeling for AM.

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Are you interested in 3D printing of high-performance composite structures?

Do you have a good background in thermo-mechanical modeling?

Are you interested in advancing new manufacturing techniques for fabricating sustainable composite materials used in wind turbines?

If so, there is a great opportunity for motivated and hard-working students with good scientific background to pursue their PhD study at the Department of Wind Energy, Technical University of Denmark; one of the top-ranking technical universities in Europe. 

Dear Mechanics Community Members:

We have great news to share! Two additional program directors have joined the Mechanics and Engineering Materials (MEM) cluster. Recall that the MEM cluster is composed of two programs devoted to the discipline of mechanics: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) and Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS). The new hires will work across and bridge both programs, forming a complement of five program directors in total serving the needs of the ever-expanding mechanics community.

Dear colleagues,

Universal (controllable) deformations of an elastic solid are those deformations that can be maintained for all possible strain-energy density functions and suitable boundary tractions. Universal deformations have played a central role in nonlinear elasticity and anelasticity. However, their classification has been mostly established for homogeneous isotropic solids following the seminal works of Ericksen. In this paper, we extend Ericksen's analysis of universal deformations to inhomogeneous compressible and incompressible isotropic solids.