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Kejie Zhao, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Skin is the largest organ of the human body, and it offers a diagnostic interface rich with vital biological signals from the inner organs, blood vessels, muscles, and dermis/epidermis. Soft, flexible, and stretchable electronic devices provide a novel platform to interface with soft tissues for robotic feedback and control, regenerative medicine, and continuous health monitoring.

We invite applications for a research scientist to work in the area of applied mechanics and materials at A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC).

Dear Colleagues - the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania is searching for tenure-track faculty. Please feel free to circulate the attached ad to any interested parties. The link to apply can be found here: http://www.me.upenn.edu/faculty-staff/

sincerely yours,

Rob Carpick 

Prof. Jie Yin of Temple University has been selected as the recipient of the 2017 EML Young Investigator Award for his paper "Design of cut unit geometry in hierarchical kirigami-based auxetic metamaterials for high stretchability and compressibility" in EML 12, pp77-85 (2017). Congratulations!

The talk "Controlling the toughness and strength of random fiber networks" by R.C. Picu and S. Deogekar has been moved to session 12-7-1, Quantitative Visualization in Experimental Mechanics, scheduled November 06, 2017, 10:30AM - 12:15PM.  

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to present your research work at the mini-symposium – “MODELLING OF MICROSTRUCTURE-DEPENDENT DAMAGE AND FRACTURE OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS” at the 13th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (New York City, from July 22 to 27 of 2018). The session ID is 225 (Link: http://www.wccm2018.org/MS_225).

Submission deadline: December 31, 2017. Session description is given below. We look forward to your contribution in this min-symposium.

Best regards

There are two polar contemporary approaches to the constitutive modeling of arterial wall with anisotropy induced by collagen fibers. The first one is based on the angular integration (AI) of the strain energy on a unit sphere for the analytically defined fiber dispersion. The second one is based on the introduction of the generalized structure tensors (GST). AI approach is very involved computationally while GST approach requires somewhat complicated procedure for the exclusion of compressed fibers.