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Introducing a new website for the Society of Engineering Science (SES)

Submitted by vicky.nguyen on

Dear iMechanica Community,

 

It is my pleasure to announce that SES has a new online home. Please visit us at https://socengsci.org to learn more about SES and its activities.

 

 

Best Regards,

 

Thao (Vicky) Nguyen

President of SES

Professor

Department of Mechanical Egineering

Johns Hopkins University

Introducing a new website for the Society of Engineering Science

Submitted by vicky.nguyen on

Dear iMechanica community,

 

It is my pleasure to announce that SES has a new online home. Please visit us at https://socengsci.org to learn more about the society and its activities.  

 

Best Regards,

Thao (Vicky) Nguyen

President of SES

Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Johns Hopkins University.

Faculty Position in "Sustainable Materials" at EPFL, Switzerland

Submitted by Pedro Reis on

The School of Engineering at EPFL invites applications for an industry-sponsored tenure track assistant professor position in Sustainable Materials within its Institute of Materials. We seek exceptional individuals who will develop and drive a research program at the forefront of the discipline, who have a strong dedication to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and who will be proactive members of their professional and university communities.

 

PhD Student Position at IMT Lucca within EU MSCA-ITN-ETN NewFrac

Submitted by marco.paggi on

Dear All, 

a PhD Student Position at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is now available within the EU MSCA-ITN-ETN Marie Curie Innovative Training Network project "NewFrac". The topic concerns computational fracture mechanics (phase field and cohesive zone mdoels), for photovoltaic (multi-physics) applications, see:

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/491145

The candidates for such a position must be not Italian, according to the MSCA agreement. 

Plasticity without phenomenology: a first step

Submitted by Sabyasachi Cha… on

Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Giacomo Po, Xiaohan Zhang, Amit Acharya, Nasr Ghoniem

A novel, concurrent multiscale approach to meso/macroscale plasticity is demonstrated. It utilizes a carefully designed coupling of a partial differential equation (pde) based theory of dislocation mediated crystal plasticity with time-averaged inputs from microscopic Dislocation Dynamics (DD), adapting a state-of-the-art mathematical coarse-graining scheme. The stress- strain response of mesoscopic samples at realistic, slow, loading rates up to appreciable values of strain is obtained, with significant speed-up in compute time compared to conventional DD. Effects of crystal orientation, loading rate, and the ratio of the initial mobile to sessile dislocation density on the macroscopic response, for both load and displacement controlled simulations are demonstrated. These results are obtained without using any phenomenological constitutive assumption, except for thermal activation which is not a part of microscopic DD. The results also demonstrate the effect of the internal stresses on the collective behavior of dislocations, manifesting, in a set of examples, as a Stage I to Stage II hardening transition.