Esteemed Colleagues,

this post is to inform you that, due to personal reasons, unfortunately, Prof. René de Borst will not be able to deliver his presentation this Friday. Accordingly, the webinar scheduled for Friday 29/01 has been cancelled.

We look forward to welcoming you all to the next TAFMech webinar:

Prof. Reinhard Pippan

Title of seminar: Crack closure: frequently asked questions

Date/time: 5 February 2021 at 9 am (GMT)

On optimal hierarchy of load-bearing biological materials, Zhang, Zhang, Gao, Proceedings of The Royal Society B, 2011

Novelty/impact/significance:

Duration: 36 months
There is an available PhD position at the Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague to work under the design, modelling, preparation and characterization of smart structures.

Spider silk is a protein material that exhibits extraordinary and nontrivial properties such as the ability to soften and decrease its length by up to ∼60% upon exposure to high humidity. This counter-intuitive process is commonly called supercontraction and is the result of a transition from a highly oriented glassy phase to a disoriented rubbery phase. In our new paper (published in biomacromolecules) we derive a model that explains the origins of the supercontraction phenomena. The insights from this work motivate the development of novel biomimetic materials.

Dear Colleagues,

We recently published a review article on "Elastic instabilities, microstructure transformations, and pattern formations in soft materials" in Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science.

Read here: Elastic instabilities, microstructure transformations, and pattern formations in soft materials - ScienceDirect

In the paper, we have reviewed the state of the art in:

Dear mechanics community,

I would like to draw your attention to our recent publication about the opensource finite element framework GetFEM:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3412849

If you are interested in the most recent advances in physics-based Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction, and Structural Health Monitoring
You may find this publication helpful.

free download site https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3299

Two Tenure-Track Lecturer positions at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia.

More info: 

https://www.uis.edu.co/webUIS/es/concursoDocente/concursoDocente2021/ca…

agonzale [at] uis.edu.co 

Our group has several openings for fully-funded graduate students in computational and experimental mechanics of biological and engineered materials. Our primary goal is to link traumatic brain injury (TBI) with multiscale, multiphysics damage evolution in the brain using experimentally verifiable computations and simulations. We are also interested in designing advanced material for TBI protection.

A PhD student is being sought to fill an opening in the Gross Materials Lab (group website: andrewjgross.com) at the University of South Carolina. Research activities are focused on the design, fabrication, and characterization of architected materials. Students must be capable coders to be considered. Prior experience configuring optical equipment and National Instruments DAQ hardware is valuable, but not required. Students interested in or having prior experience with finite element modeling, mechanical property testing, and 3D printing are strongly encouraged to apply.