Mechanically instructive biomaterials: a synergy of mechanics, materials and biology
Zhenwei Ma, Jianyu Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to the next webinar in the Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Webinar Series.
Our upcoming seminar will be delivered by Prof. Anton Souslov (Cambridge):
"Non Reciprocity in Materials"
Date: Monday, 19 October 2026
Time: 10:00 am Boston / 3:00 pm London / 4:00 pm Paris / 10:00 pm Beijing
Discussion leader: Prof. Dominic Vella (Oxford)
The Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award 2026 edition is organized by the journal and Elsevier to honor the best paper by a young scientist. The papers must have been published in volumes 80-87, from 2025 to 2026.
The award is made annually to the corresponding authors of the paper who received their Ph.D. no more than 10 years prior to the year of award. Corresponding authors who have yet to receive a Ph.D. will also be considered and self-nominations are allowed.
Sodium-ion batteries have emerged as low-cost and resource-abundant alternatives to lithium-ion systems; however, their practical deployment is fundamentally constrained by interfacial instability, dendrite growth, and mechanical degradation. Although extensive efforts have been devoted to electrolyte development, current research remains fragmented.
UPDATE: This webinar has been postponed.
A new date will be announced in due course.
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to the next webinar in the Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Webinar Series.
Our upcoming seminar will be delivered by Prof. Ritu Raman (MIT):
"Tissue engineering biological actuators for biohybrid robots"
Date: Thursday, 24 September 2026
Our latest paper on ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene is now published in Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-651X/ae9f79
We investigate turbulence-induced vibrations in a confined annular flow configuration representative of pressurized water reactor internals. The experimental setup consists of a rigid inner cylinder mounted on two flexible rectangular plates inside a cylindrical vessel. Building on our previous work, analytical expressions for the fluid-elastic forces in quiescent fluid are derived, accounting for added mass, damping, partial immersion, viscous, and confinement effects.
The Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Applied Mechanics Division Awards.
Nominations will be due by September 15, 2026.
The AMD seeks nominations for the awards listed below.
Timoshenko Medal:
With funding from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant Program, targeting university faculty engaged in research in theoretical and applied mechanics that are at the beginning of their academic careers. Applicants must hold a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor at a US university on October 1, 2026, and must not be more than 5 years beyond receipt of their doctoral degree at the time the award is made.
