Century Fracture Mechanics Summit 2019, organized by the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore
https://cfmsummit2019.sg/ All speakers and delegates are by invitation only. Mechanicians who would like to follow the proceedings online, I will be live-tweeting updates as the event progresses, so follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JingjieYeo Scheduled to be held from 8 to 10 April 2019, the Century Fracture Mechanics Summit will feature an international line-up of influential and visionary speakers from around the world.
Crystal-inspired architected materials: Nature 565 (2019) & 3-year postdoc position at Imperial College London
We recently presented an original research that uses 3d printing to realise the mimicry of the microstructure observed in crystalline metals to employ crystals’ hardening mechanisms to develop robust and damage-tolerant architected materials (Nature 2019; 565:305 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0850-3).
PhD position: High rate behaviour and fragmentation of printed metals
Open PhD student position
Research topic: Multiple localization and fracture in printed metallic rings subjected to dynamic expansion
Research project: ERC starting grant - PURPOSE
Institution: University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
Torso Model Generation for Simulating Pacemaker Performance
MicroPort develop lifesaving medical products for patients around the world. One of MicroPort’s specialties is in manufacturing cardiac rhythm management devices (CRM) for treating cardiac rhythm disorders and heart failures. The company use Synopsys Simpleware software to model complex pacemaker geometries to better understand patient therapies for conditions such as bradycardia and tachycardia.
Call for papers: International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture
Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the International Workshop on Plasticity, Damage and Fracture of Engineering Materials, which will take place in Ankara, Turkey on 22-23 August 2019. The deadlines for abstract and full paper submissions are April 19 and June 17 2019,respectively.
Post-doctoral positions in the Center for Advanced Research in the Engineering Sciences, and the Institute for Materials, Manufacturing, and Sustainment at Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX
Post-doctoral research fellow positions are available in the Labs of Professor Satya N. Atluri at Texas Tech University. Those possessing PhDs in the area of nonlinear dynamics, computational mechanics, and structural dynamics are sought.
Strong Adhesion in 3D Printing of Soft Materials
(Yang et al Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 1901721). In our new paper, strong adhesion is achieved in integrated structures of a hydrogel and an elastomer extrusion-printed in arbitrary sequence.
Parameters controlling the strength of stochastic fibrous materials
Many materials of everyday use are fibrous and their strength is important in most applications. In this work we study the dependence of the strength of random fiber networks on structural parameters such as the network density, cross-link density, fiber tortuosity, and the strength of the inter-fiber cross-links. Athermal networks of cellular and fibrous type are considered. We conclude that the network strength scales linearly with the cross-link number density and with the cross-link strength for a broad range of network parameters, and for both types of networks considered.