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We are pleased to announce research and PhD opportunities in Bioinspired Engineering and Technologies, with a particular emphasis on green energy production and robotics.
Our group is currently working on several challenging and high-impact areas, including:
#1. Bio-signal-based realistic control of prosthetics for rehabilitation
#2. Bio-inspired wind turbine blade design for energy harvesting from moving vehicles
#3. Research on e-VTOL systems
#4. Development of UUVs for ocean plastic cleaning

USACM Student Chapter Seminar on 04/17 by Dr. Yangyuanchen Liu

Submitted by USACM_Student_… on Mon, 04/13/2026 - 23:11

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damage mechanics

Hi all,

We would like to invite you to attend an upcoming presentation:

"Damage Sensing Digital Twin for Piezocomposites Integrating Neural Operator with Parametrically Upscaled Constitutive Damage Model"

The talk will be given by Dr. Yangyuanchen Liu from Johns Hopkins University.

The seminar will be held April 17, 2026, 11:30 AM -12:30 PM EDT.

Feel free to join the zoom meeting through the following meeting ID and passcode:

meeting ID: 824 6447 8256

passcode: 003801

Announcing MechanicsArXiv: A Dedicated Preprint Server for the Mechanics Community

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on Sat, 04/11/2026 - 15:18

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preprint

Dear iMechanica community,

We (Pradeep Sharma, Kaushik Dayal) are writing to share an exciting new initiative aimed at maintaining and enhancing the identity, coherence, and visibility of our field.

5th KTH Summer School of Computational Tissue Biomechanics, August 12 th to 21 st 2026, Stockholm, Sweden

Submitted by tcg on Wed, 02/18/2026 - 15:53

education

"inspired by nature" is this year's topic of our KTH Summer School of Computational Tissue Biomechanics
read the 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hoESL99o0pm8rRKrCId73WlJ-H8J1ihg/view
Unique opportunity to connect experimental, theoretical, and numerical know how in the description of biological tissues.
+ learn about the function of solids at large deformations, for example, used in soft robotics.

February 20, 2026 — Open Day for the MS² Triple Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering: Mechanics of Sustainable Materials and Structures [Scholarships available]

Submitted by Francesco Dal Corso on Thu, 02/05/2026 - 04:25

An Open Day event is scheduled online on February 20, 2026, at 2:00 PM (CET) to discover our master's degree (more information below), discuss with professors, and get information about services and admission procedures. Registration is needed; please make sure to fill in the form:

HERE

International Master Program MS2 [15 scholarships available!! Deadline March 15, 2025]

Submitted by Francesco Dal Corso on Wed, 02/12/2025 - 04:15

The International Master Program MS² - Mechanics of Sustainable Materials and Structures, offered through joint training activities at TU Dortmund University (Germany), at the University of Trento (Italy) and at the Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France),

has been awarded an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master funding!