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Published in Materials Today Physics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542529324001330

Dear Colleagues,
The deadline for the IMECE abstract-only submission (07/16/2024) is approaching quickly and we would like to invite you to submit your abstract to the "Advances in Soft Material Modeling" topic. This topic is organized by me (Jihong Ma at the University of Vermont), Professors Hossein Salahshoor at Duke University, Nikolaos Bouklas at Cornell University, Shawn Chester at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Aditya Kumar at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory (CMRL)

Johns Hopkins University

Professor Somnath Ghosh

The importance of fluidelastic forces in flow-excited vibrations is crucial, in view of their damaging potential. Flow-coupling coefficients are often experimentally obtained from vibration experiments, performed within a limited experimental frequency range. For any given flow velocity, these coefficients are typically frequency-dependent, as amply documented in the literature since the seminal work of Tanaka and Takahara.

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to read our recent study published in the Physical Review Applied: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.21.054022

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Published in Journal of Applied Physics: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0201522

Dear Colleagues, 

The 35th Annual Robert J. Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Computational Mechanics will be held at Duke University on October 14, 2024. 

The research group Mechanics of Materials and Structures at Ghent University (UGent-MMS) has 5 vacancies for PhD and postdoc research in the field of fibre-reinforced composites. The vacancies are linked to research on composite hydrogen tanks, micromechanical testing of composites and finite element modelling of textile connections. All research will be conducted with leading companies in the field.

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The premature failure of shape memory ceramics (SMCs) under cyclic loading is a critical issue limiting their applications as actuators and thermal protection layers. Martensitic phase transformation (MPT), essential for superelasticity and shape memory functionalities in SMCs, induces localized plastic deformations due to phase expansion. In polycrystalline materials, the accumulation of localized plastic strain serves as the primary mechanism for fatigue crack initiation under cyclic loading.