Predicting high cycle fatigue life with unified mechanics theory - ScienceDirect

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to provide free registration links for the AMD awards event and the Koiter medalist lecture, which will take place on November 3rd, 2021, between 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm Eastern Time. The AMD awards event includes the Timoshenko medalist lecture by Prof. Huajian Gao; while the Koiter medalist lecture will be given by Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel.

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to provide free registration links for the AMD awards event and the Koiter medalist lecture, which will take place on November 3rd, 2021, between 6:30 pm and 9:00 pm Eastern Time. The AMD awards event includes the Timoshenko medalist lecture by Prof. Huajian Gao; while the Koiter medalist lecture will be given by Prof. Gerhard Holzapfel.

The AMD-ASME Executive Committee is delighted to announce the 2021 recipients of the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grants, each to be awarded at $20,000. The five selected recipients are:

In a new paper, we report our observations of the mechanical response (quasi-static and dynamic) of woire arc additively manufactured steels. An interesting alternative to the "conventional" powder based 3D printing. The paper is temporarily available on:

We welcome applications to complete a doctoral training in Advanced Engineering with Living Materials (ALIVE) as part of the MaP Doctoral School (www.doctoral-school.ethz.ch) hosted by the ETH Zurich Competence Center for Materials and Processes (MaP). We offer up to 20 full-time doctoral researcher positions to start early 2022. 

Have you ever wondered that you can visually see the stress patterns live in a loaded structure! I am not speaking about the contours that you see in commercial finite element software #fea .

For e.g. see the colorful image attached. The fringe patterns are the live stress field around a crack in a loaded structure.

Find more answers on how to interpret these images using state of the art image processing technology in the newly published book:

Towards the development of reusable space systems, high emissivity coatings on fibrous ceramic substrates with improved thermal resistance are needed. In this study WSi2–MoSi2–Si–SiB6-borosilicate glass coatings were prepared on fibrous ZrO2 by slurry dipping and subsequent high temperature rapid sintering. A coating with 20 wt% WSi2 and 50 wt% MoSi2 presents optimal thermal stability with only 10.06 mg/cm2 mass loss and 4.0% emissivity decrease in the wavelength regime 1.27–1.73 μm after 50 h oxidation at 1773 K. The advantages of double phase metal-silicide coatings combining WSi2 and MoSi2 include improved thermal compatibility with the substrate and an enhanced glass-mediated self-healing ability.

We would like to invite you to participate in the Mini-Symposium on "Mechanics and Physics of Structures" within "ESMC2022 - 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference" in Galway (Ireland), July 4-8, 2022.

The deadline for abstract submission is November 19th, 2021.

Mini-symposium Organizers
Sebastien Neukirch (CNRS/UPMC),
Benoit Roman (CNRS/UPMC),
Keith Seffen (University of Cambridge),
Francesco Dal Corso (University of Trento)

Nearly 50 years ago, Eringen developed a nonlocal theory of elasic solids according to which the Causchy stress tensor "sigma" at a point x depends upon the strain tensor "epsilon" not only at the point x but also at all other points in the body.  For homogeneous solids, and a few additional assumptions, he showed that the constitutive relation can be reduced to a differential form that has become popular among people studying deformations of functionally graded materials (FGMs).  However, an FGM is inhomogene