The inaugural Future Faculty Symposium (FFS) will be part of the 60th Society of Engineering Science Annual Conference (SES 2023) at the University of Minnesota in October, please see attached flyer. The goal is to provide a venue for senior PhDs/Postdocs to showcase their reserach and facilitate recruiting dynamics.
A methodology for deriving dual variational principles for the classical Newtonian mechanics of mass points in the presence of applied forces, interaction forces, and constraints, all with a general dependence on particle velocities and positions, is presented. Methods for incorporating constraints are critically assessed. General theory, as well as explicitly worked out variational principles for a dissipative system (Lorenz) and a system with anholonomic constraints (Pars) are demonstrated. Conditions under which a (family of) dual Hamiltonian flows, as well as constants of motion, may be associated with a dissipative, and possibly constrained, primal system are specified.
Dear Fellow Mechanicians,
We are excited to announce that the Society for Natural Philosophy, originally founded by Clifford Truesdell in 1963, will hold its annual meeting in Paris from October 16 to 18, 2023. The Society is devoted to the unity of the mathematical and physical sciences, and this year's conference will particularly focus on the following topics:
Soft biological tissues often exhibit notable strain stiffening under increasing stretch, and this can have significant effects on tissue growth and morphological development, such as causing symmetry breaking in growing airways and leading to mucosal folding and airway hyperresponsiveness. To investigate the role of strain stiffening and the multifactorial control in growth and remodeling, we consider a growing tubular structure with strain-stiffening effects caused by increased and tightened collagen.
Mechanical Metamaterials (ASME IMECE 2023)
Topic 04-03 (Materials) or Topic 12-07 (Applied Mechanics)
you want to connect experimental, theoretical, and numerical know how in the description of biological tissues? Spending the week August 27 to September 1st in Stockholm at our Computational Tissue Biomechanics Summer school is then recommended.
+ learn about the function of many biological tissues.
+ consolidate the essentials of continuum biomechanics and FEM.
+ power your studies by addressing the different (engineering, biological and clinical) aspects of tissue biomechanics.
I am looking for a PhD student in the area of solid mechanics. Some topics of interest are dynamic fracture and faulting, computational mechanics, wave propagation and mechanical metamaterials. My group's work is supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) and the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). To see some recent research highlights and publications of my group, visit my personal website
Dear Colleagues,
I invite you to read our recent paper on the orientation dependent plasticity mechanisms that control the dynamic creation of nanostructures and their behavior under subsequent quasistatic microcompression published in the International Journal of Plasticity: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2023.103657
Dear Colleagues,
I invite you to read our recent paper on the process-structure-property relations in heterogeneous nanostructured metals created through a laser induced projectile impact of single crystal microcubes published in the Extreme Mechanics Letters: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2023.102037
3 PhD positions funded through the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks as part of the “Bridging Models at Different Scales To Design New Generation Fuel Cells for Electrified Mobility (BLESSED)” project.
