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In our recent paper, some interesting conclusions are found when we attempt to establish a standardized compliance matrices for general anisotropic materials. The abstract is as follows.

Our partner Weizmann Institute Science in Israel is currently trying to fill a PhD position for the FiBreMoD project. The title of the PhD project is "Microscale matrix and interfacial properties of fibre-reinforced composites", and will be supervised by Prof. Daniel Wagner. If you are an enthusiastic and motivated candidate with a background in Materials Science, Composites, Mechanics, or Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, then you should consider applying.

You can find more details here
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AWI331/phd-studentship-modelling-and-simulati…

If interested in applying, please use the following link rather than sending your application to me via email
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/subjects/engineering/index…

Chiqun Zhang            Amit Acharya

The utility of the notion of generalized disclinations in materials science is discussed within the physical context of modeling interfacial and bulk line defects like defected grain and phase boundaries, dislocations and disclinations. The Burgers vector of a disclination dipole in linear elasticity is derived, clearly demonstrating the equivalence of its stress field to that of an edge dislocation. We also prove that the inverse deformation/displacement jump of a defect line is independent of the cut-surface when its g.disclination strength vanishes. An explicit formula for the displacement jump of a single localized composite defect line in terms of given g.disclination and dislocation strengths is deduced based on the Weingarten theorem for g.disclination theory at finite deformation. The Burgers vector of a g.disclination dipole at finite deformation is also derived.

Dear all,

We have just published a new article on Simulation-Aided Design of Tubular Polymeric Capsules for self-healing concrete. It can be viewed/downloaded at: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/10/1/10 (open access) or https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311861983_Simulation-Aided_Des… (researchgate users). 

Kind regards,

Branko

Dear Colleagues,

I am Dr. Emin Taner ELMAS from İzmir, Turkey; 

As an international scientific / technical committe member, I would like to kindly announce and inform you about the 2017 International Conference on Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies (ICMIT 2017 ) conference.  ICMIT 2017 will be held in  Lisbon,Portugal during May 27-29, 2017.   http://icmit.org/. 

In this paper we analyze the stress field of a solid torus made of an incompressible isotropic solid with a toroidal inclusion that is concentric with the solid torus and has a uniform distribution of pure dilatational finite eigenstrains. We use a perturbation analysis and calculate the residual stresses to the first order in the thinness ratio (the ratio of the radius of the generating circle and the overall radius of the solid torus). In particular, we show that the stress field inside the inclusion is not uniform.

We have organized a Lorentz Workshop with 60 selected partecipants leading scientists in tribology and contact mechanics mainly from Europe.

Attached a program.   Or see the web site

Vladislav Yastrebov (co-organizer)

Lucia Nicola (co-organizer)

Annalisa Fasolino (co-organizer)

Michele Ciavarella (co-organizer)

Within the frame of the 8th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART 2017), to be held in Madrid, Spain, on June 5-8, 2017, we are organizing minisymposium MS13 titled “Smart materials capable of recoverable inelastic strain”. 

Relevant contributions are solicited specifically in the following technical areas:

1. Modeling, simulation and experimental characterization of shape memory alloys, piezoelectric materials and their composites,

2. Investigation of degradation and failure mechanisms in smart materials,