Applied Mechanics Department (MNNIT Allahabad, U.P., India) is organizing 3rd Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM2017) during July 5-7, 2017.

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The Université catholique de Louvain invites applications for a full-time professor position in Biomechanical Engineering

We seek talented individuals who will develop and drive a research program at the forefront of the biomechanical engineering discipline on topics involving the experimentation, characterization, modelling and/or simulation of

The Université catholique de Louvain invites applications for a full-time professor position in Geotechnical Engineering

We seek talented individuals who will develop and drive a research program at the forefront of the field of geotechnics and/or soil mechanics, involving, for instance:

Because of the increasing need of energy, the plants installed by electricity supply utilities throughout the world are becoming larger and more highly stressed. Thus, the risk of turbogenerator shaft cracking is increasing also. The development and propagation of a crack represents the most common and trivial beginning of integrity losses in engineering structures.

Dear colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for our mini-symposium (MS61) on Computational Geomechanics in the upcoming EMI conference (June 4-7, 2017) at San Diego. The scope of the mini-symposium is listed below:

Imitating origami principles in active or programmable materials opens the door for development
of origami-inspired self-folding structures for not only aesthetic but also functional purposes. A
variety of programmable materials enabled self-folding structures have been demonstrated across
various fields and scales. These folding structures have finite thickness and the mechanical
properties of the active materials dictate the folding process. Yet formalizing the use of origami
rules for use in computer modeling has been challenging, owing to the zero-thickness theory and

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With the development of computer science, the discontinuum-based models are most likely to become the mainstream in the study of solid mechanics especially for rock mechanics. 

Dear all,

I would like to share with you a couple of our recent papers that I think may be of interest for the wider community:

1) Ciambella, J., Stanier, D. C., & Rahatekar, S. S. (2016). Magnetic alignment of short carbon fibres in curing composites. Composites Part B: Engineering, 1–30. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2016.10.038 (downloadale at: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1TypC4rCEkOviM)

3D inverse design helps military OEM develop unique cooling fan

A U.S.-based defence contractor, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of life support systems (LSS) for military applications, had a requirement for a custom fan to be integrated into its product line. With TURBOdesign1, the company was able to bring the fan design process in-house and reduce design time as well as production cost.