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Applied Mechanics Division – Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grants 2023
With funding from the Haythornthwaite Foundation, the Executive Committee (EC) of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME is pleased to announce the establishment of 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, 2023, and must not be more than 5 years beyond receipt of their doctoral degree at the time
Congrats to my colleagues for their new center at Brown: MUSE
In the past 3 years, Brown Engineering faculty led by Professor Yuri Bazilevs with co-directors Professors Kenny Breuer and Pradeep Guduru have won more than $15 million in awards for research in Mechanics of Undersea Science and Engineering (MUSE). This was made possible by partnering with Naval researchers and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, R.I.
This center may bring great opportunities for doing doctoral and postdoctoral research at Brown. I look forward to interacting with new colleagues and following the progress of MUSE.
Accretion-Ablation Mechanics
In this paper we formulate a geometric nonlinear theory of the mechanics of accreting-ablating bodies. This is a generalization of the theory of accretion mechanics of Sozio and Yavari (2019). More specifically, we are interested in large deformation analysis of bodies that undergo a continuous and simultaneous accretion and ablation on their boundaries while under external loads.
PhD positions for a MSCA-DN project (DurAMat)
PhD positions are available for DurAMat which is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) project. A total number of 11 PhD students will be hired for DurAMat. One PhD student will join us at the department of Physics of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The project details and the application process are described in the project website: http://duramat-project.eu/
Journal Club for August 2023: Attractors in stressed granular materials
Yida Zhang
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80303
Research lab: https://www.yidazhanggroup.com/
1. Introduction
Incremental harmonic balance method for multi-harmonic solution of high-dimensional delay differential equations: Application to crossflow-induced nonlinear vibration of steam generator tubes
Diverse science and engineering problems are governed by delay differential equations (DDE). Seeking periodic solutions of DDEs is crucial for many nonlinear dynamic systems. The incremental harmonic balance (IHB) method is an efficient semi-analytical ap- proach for periodic solutions of DDE.
Opening for two new Ph.D. students in the Design & Uncertainty Quantification group, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Iowa.
The Design & Uncertainty Quantification group at The University of Iowa, led by Professor Sharif Rahman, is looking for two new Ph.D. students, who are capable of and interested in performing high-quality research on solid mechanics, uncertainty quantification, and design optimization. The research, supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, requires building a solid mathematical foundation, devising efficient numerical algorithms, and developing practical computational tools, all associated with stochastic analysis and design of complex materials and structures.
PhD call - Innovative metamaterials and metastructures for risk reduction and fitness for service of special risk industrial plants
The University of Trento opens the second call for applications for the admission to the 39th Cycle (Academic Year 2023/2024) of the Doctoral Programme in “Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering” as follows: Deadline for application: September 4th, 2023, hrs. 4.00 PM (Italian time, GMT +2)
Modal analysis of lead-bismuth eutectic flow in a single wire-wrapped rod channel
The thermal-hydraulics as well as flow-induced vibration of wire-wrapped rod bundles calls for accurate and efficient liquid metal flow simulation and prediction, yet it remains a challenge due to the complex geometries and high Reynolds number flow in wire-wrapped rod channel. Previous efforts towards this goal exclusively adopts full-order modeling (FOM), which is prohibitively computation-intensive.