The Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London (UCL) wishes to strengthen, and broaden, its current research activities through the recruitment of an exceptional lecturer in Flight Mechanics, with a proven research track record in spacecraft mechanical design or space flight dynamics and control.

Application Deadline: January 6, 2021.

I attach a preprint of a note on the elegant and interesting and simple theory by Afferrante and Carbone on ultratough peeling of an elastic tape from a viscoelastic substrate.   Any comment is most welcome.   Regards, MC

Dr. Wentao Yan's group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), focuses on metal additive manufacturing: computational modeling, experimental investigation and data analytics.
There are two openings for postdoctoral fellows available immediately. The candidates are required to have expertise in one of the following areas: 1) high-entropy alloys; 2) hot cracking and thermal stress; 3) multiphase/fluid-particle flow modeling. The expertise on additive manufacturing is a plus but not a must.

Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is the flagship review journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) with 2019 impact factor 6.733. Sponsored since its founding in 1948 by the ASME Applied Mechanics Division, AMR publishes long-shelf-life, state-of-the-art survey articles and retrospective reviews across all subdisciplines of applied mechanics and engineering science, including fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics and vibration, and applications.

Extended deadline to 27 January 2021

ICBME 2021

2nd International Conference on Biomechanics and Medical Engineering 2021

10-11 March 2021 using virtual platform.

For more information, please visit the conference website: https://www.wcoset2021.com/icbme/

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EML Webinar on 9 December 2020 will be given by Jian Ping Gong, Hokkaido University. Discusion Leader: Rong Long, University of Colorado.

Title: Self-Growing and Strengthening of Double Network Hydrogels by Mechanical Training

Time: 8 am Boston, 1 pm London, 2 pm Paris, 9 pm Beijing on 9 December 2020

dear Collegues

This work addresses the determination of yield surfaces for geometrically exact elastoplastic rods. Use is made of a formulation where the rod is subjected to an uniform strain field along its arc length, thereby reducing the elastoplastic problem of the full rod to just its cross-section. By integrating the plastic work and the stresses over the rod's cross-section, one then obtains discrete points of the yield surface in terms of stress resultants. Eventually, Lamé curves in their most general form are fitted to the discrete points by an appropriate optimisation method.