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Panos Family Endowed Chair Professor Position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston

Submitted by Yashashree on
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The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston invites applications for the Panos Family Endowed Chair position at the rank of Full Professor. The Panos Family Chair Professorship has been established from a $4.5 million gift from the Thomas Michael Panos Family Estate and a $2 million matching from the University’s $100 million Challenge Aspire Fund.

MIT Short Course - Machine Learning for Materials Informatics (Jul 28-31, 2025)

Submitted by Markus J. Buehler on
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Machine Learning for Materials Informatics

Instructor: Prof. Markus J Buehler, mbuehler [at] MIT.EDU (mbuehler[at]MIT[dot]EDU) 

Jul 28 - Jul 31, 2025 (3.5 days) 

Learn more here: https://professional.mit.edu/course-catalog/machine-learning-materials-informatics (link to sign-up there)

optimal temperature and optimal temperature gradient in tyres?

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

Dear Colleagues

I have been playing with a very good student from Berlin with the idea that a temperature gradient along the depth of the tire could help reduce wear significantly. We all know that there is an optimal range of temperature for friction and wear --- much less known is an optimal "temperature gradient". I hope you find this study a good starting point on this idea. Maybe somebody wants to explore how to patent it!

https://lnkd.in/d5nibSYN

Mike

A Generalised Coleman-Noll Procedure and the Balance Laws of Hyper-Anelasticity

Submitted by arash_yavari on
research
Coleman-Noll procedure
Nonlinear elasticity
hyperelasticity
anelasticity
hyper-anelasticity
balance laws
laws of thermodynamics.

It is known that the balance laws of hyperelasticity (Green elasticity), i.e., conservation of mass and balance of linear and angular momenta, can be derived using the first law of thermodynamics and by postulating its invariance under superposed rigid body motions of the Euclidean ambient space---the Green-Naghdi-Rivlin theorem. In the case of a non-Euclidean ambient space, covariance of the energy balance---its invariance under arbitrary time-dependent diffeomorphisms of the ambient space---gives all the balance laws and the Doyle-Ericksen formula---the Marsden-Hughes theorem.

Introduction of a curve fitting tool to identify material constants of viscoelastic material models

Submitted by Chandima Uyanage on
software
finite element modeling
multiscale modeling
mechanics of materials
Composites
viscoelasticity

In this article, we are introducing a new analysis tool to identify material constants of viscoelastic problems.

Variational principle for a damped, quadratically interacting particle chain with nonconservative forcing

Submitted by Amit Acharya on

Amit Acharya            Ambar N. Sengupta

A method for designing variational principles for the dynamics of a possibly dissipative and non-conservatively forced chain of particles is demonstrated. Some qualitative features of the formulation are discussed.

In: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics, Proceedings of the Conference on Continuum Mechanics and Discrete Systems 14 (CMDS-14), ed. F. Willot, J. Dirrenberger, S. Forest, D. Jeulin, A. Cherkaev, v. 457, 195-200, 2024 (published online, 2023).

Programmable inverse design framework for morphing hard-magnetic soft materials

Submitted by Fan Xu on
research
inverse design
active/soft materials

As a type of shape-programmable soft materials, hard-magnetic soft materials (HMSMs) exhibit rapid and reversible deformations under applied magnetic fields, showing promise for soft robotics, flexible electronics, and biomedical devices. The realization of various controllable shape transformations is crucial to the rational design of relevant applications.

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