Dear Colleagues:
You are cordially invited to participate in the USACM Thematic Conference on Meshfree and Particle Methods: Applications and Theory
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Time: September 10-12, 2018
Website: http://mfpm2018.usacm.org/
With funding from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the establishment of the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant Program, targeting university faculty engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics that are at the beginning of their academic careers.
Dear Colleagues,
Please see the link for a recent article published in Scripta Materialia. In this article, active cross-slip behavior of screw <c + a> dislocations in Mg is observed, and the plausibility of <c + a> dislocation slip on new planes {-12-11} that have hitherto not been considered possible, is shown for the first time.
Thanks to Elsevier’s sharing policy, this article has 50 days' free access, and anyone can read and download it before August 30, 2018.
A Ph.D. position is available in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville starting Spring Semester 2019. The focus of the project is on the performance enhancement of aerodynamic systems using fluidic and smart material actuators such as piezoelectric-based synthetic jets and micro fiber composites.
Dear Colleagues, In the context of the EU Marie Curie ITN Project FULLCOMP, a workshop "Novel Developments in Failure Analysis of Composite Materials and Structures" for PhD students and young researchers will take place on 30-31 July 2018 at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. This workshop presents recent developments in various aspects of failure analysis of composite structures, ranging from material modelling to structural modelling and from testing and identification aspects to numerical analysis.
We are organizing the symposium on " Nanoarchitectured and Morphology-controlled Nanoporous Materials" at the next TMS meeting to be held in San Antonio Texas from March 10- March 14, 2019. This is a gentle note to remind you that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to July 16th. Please consider submitting to this symposium and encourage your students and colleagues to contribute.
Below is a description of the focus of this symposium.
Nanoarchitectured materials, such as nanoporous solids, nanolattices, and nanoporous membranes, have received large attention due to their unique structural and functional properties including high strength, stiffness, radiation and fatigue resistance as well as thermal stability. These materials often offer large surface area and low density that makes them attractive for applications including energy harvesting and storage, fuel cells, Li–ion batteries, hydrogen storage, catalysis, gas purification, and separation technologies. The properties and applications of nanoarchitectured solids depend on their ligament size, porosity, network structure, morphology, connectivity, and surface area. This symposium will cover advances in synthesis, characterization, and computational modeling of nanoarchitectured and morphology-controlled nanoporous materials.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Advances in synthesis of thermodynamics driven nanostructures to controlled architectured materials systems
- Hybrid systems through integrated processing methods
- Design and optimization of morphology controlled nanoarchitectured materials
- Surface-driven phenomena in nanoporous and nanoarchitectured materials: experiments, modeling and simulation
- Influence of the morphology and topology on network-driven mechanical, and thermal properties in nanoarchitectured and nanoporous materials:
- Structural and functional applications of nanoporous and nanoarchitectured materials
On behalf of the organizing committee:
Niaz Abdolrahim, University of Rochester
John Balk, University of Kentucky
Michael J. Demkowicz, Texas A&M University
Christoph Eberl, Franunhofer Iwm
