Please see my new article in which I investigate computationally the effect of lateral compression on tensile fracture processes. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijso…

The fracture lattice simulations in our Cfrac presentation are all performed with OOFEM oofem.org/doku.php?id=en… We implement all our lattice elements and constitutive models for fracture and mass transport in OOFEM.

Great progress from two of my undergraduate students. We are not there yet, but the best way to learn is to try and to make mistakes. Stay tuned for more nice movies.

An improved version of this paper is now published in Computational Mechanics and can be freely downloaded from doi.org/10.1007/s00466… Shell buckling is often studied under compressive loads but interesting bifurcations happen when shells undergo large inflation (eg balloons)

Details for the UKACM Autumn School on "Mixed Finite Element Formulations in Solid Mechanics". can be found below: sites.google.com/view/ukacm2023…. Course schedule here: drive.google.com/file/d/17aD4O-…. Hands-on training with MoFEM MoFEM / @[email protected] on the cloud platform will be provided. Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre

New paper on a fully coupled magnetoelastic thin shell formulation from our Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council project at UofG SciEng arxiv.org/abs/2308.12300 Flexible Structures Laboratory @ EPFL Daniel García González mokarram hossain Xuanhe Zhao Alain Goriely UKACM Douglas Holmes Open Mechanics Group @ CTU in Prague

Come and join us. Exciting job opportunity

Great attendance to our first UKACM school. Organised by the Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre , it has attracted more than 180 participants worldwide!

The first UKACM Autumn School has been a success. The numbers speak for themselves: 184 registered participants from 22 countries! UKACM would like to publicly thank the organisers from Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre for all the efforts to prepare and deliver this online course.

The UKACM 2024 conference website is now live, and open for abstract submissions. sites.google.com/view/ukacm2024… The deadline for submitting a one-page abstract is 30th November. We hope to see you in Durham!

New paper from Masoud Ahmadi’s PhD work on an analytical model to predict effective electrical/thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube reinforced polymers. Open access in Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. doi.org/10.1177/108128…

Engineers from University of Glasgow and GCEC are lending their support to a new research hub aiming to bring the benefits of AI to the UK electronics industry. If would you like to know please get in touch with Prof. Vihar Georgiev (Prof. Vihar Georgiev (Вихър Георгиев)). gla.ac.uk/news/headline_…

A cross-collaborative work powered by MoFEM / @[email protected] has been gaining well deserved recognition, for more information see below: x.com/LukaszKaczmarc…

Congratulations to PhD student, Paulo R. Refachinho de Campos, jointly supervised by Zienkiewicz Institute, Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre and UPC, who has been selected as the winner of the 2023 UKACM Roger Owen Prize on the topic related to “SPH for fast dynamics”

Last week was good for us. We successfully held a well-attended minimposium on #ECCOMS2024 in #Lisbon about open-source software, with good speakers and representation. Moreover, MoFEM (MoFEM / @[email protected]) has been accepted as an affiliated code to NumFOCUS.

Our PhD student Davood, presented his work at BAMC2024 and Huddersfield University's Elasticity Day see below for more information. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

New paper from Chao Zhou's (orcid.org/0009-0001-2187…) PhD project on modelling the failure of strain hardening cementitious materials: doi.org/10.1016/j.engf… (open access)

Dr Ji-Eun Byun and her colleagues delivered a training workshop in the Philippines for local engineering officials. The workshop successfully demonstrated that dedicated training sessions can make technically intensive tools accessible to non-experts.

Happy Halloween from GCEC 👻🎃 We had a fun gathering yesterday which included pumpkin carving and a Halloween movie!

New Paper by Prof. Andrew McBride and Prof. Paul Steinmann published in CMAME on "Continuum-kinematics-inspired peridynamics for transverse isotropy" the paper can be accessed here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…