We seek an outstanding PhD candidate to develop AI-ready representations of metamaterial geometries (geometrical material structures). The project will build an atlas of common metamaterial typologies and learn compact latent representations using variational autoencoders, enabling property-driven search, generative design, and optimisation for targeted physical performance.
A direct and time-saving method is presented in a paper published in the Elsevier journal Engineering Fracture Mechanics. The paper is well-written and really read-worthy. The link to it is:
Extreme Mechanics Letters is pleased to announce the Recipients of the 2025 EML Young Investigator Award
PhD and Postdoc positions are available in the School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (First Class Academic Discipline) at Central South University in Dr. Li's research group. Lists of interest include fluid-structure interaction, rain/sand erosion, impact dynamic, soft materials. Interested applicants are welcome to send a detailed CV to Dr. Li at jianli1 [at] csu.edu.cn (jianli1[at]csu[dot]edu[dot]cn).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11043-025-09825-5
Thermo-elasto-visco-plasticity
Constitutive model development
Finite element modeling
UMAT
Incremental visco-plastic multiplier
Consistent tangent operator
Viscosity
Singularity
The 20th edition of the European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC20) will be held in Florence (Italy) on May 27-29, 2026.
I am pleased to share a fully funded PhD position within the Department of Engineering at Durham University, UK, as part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience.
The project focuses on the long-term durability of polymeric composites in offshore wind energy applications.
Project details and application instructions can be found here:
2 PhD positions are available immediately in the Engineering Mechanics program in the Aerospace Engineering Department at Iowa State University in the Prof. Valery Levitasā group (http://www.aere.iastate.edu/directory/?user_page=vlevitas ) to perform theoretical and computational parts of work on NSF- and ARO-funded projects on the interaction between phase transformations and viscoplasticity in various metals, ceramics, and semiconductors.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2025 Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation* Research Initiation Grants Awards: Prof. Vatsa Gandhi (University of California at Los Angles), Prof. Chase Hartquist (University of Florida), Prof. Junsoo Kim (Northwestern University), Prof. Emily Sanders (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Prof. Angkur JD Shaikeea (California Institute of Technology).
