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A new postdoctoral fellow position will start on 1 November 2015 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.  The position is in the area of theoretical and computational modeling of dynamic failure in soft solids.  The potential candidate should have a Ph.D.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University (http://me.stanford.edu/) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor). Applications will be reviewed across all disciplines of mechanical engineering. As part of recent strategic planning, the department has identified special hiring needs and opportunities in controls, robotics, manufacturing, and biomedical engineering.

MIT invites top early career women in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and related domains (e.g. mechanics, materials, environmental and earth science) who are interested in careers in academia to apply to attend this new innovative workshop to be held on the MIT campus.

Pre-conference workshop at TERMIS 2015: Past, Present Future: The Evolution of Regenerative Medicine

Call for Papers: Special Issue
Nanomechanics: Bridging Spatial and Temporal Scales  

Sungmin Hong, Dalton Sycks, Hon Fai Chan, Shaoting Lin, Gabriel P. Lopez, Farshid Guilak, Kam W. Leong, Xuanhe Zhao, Advanced Materials, 27, 4035-4040, 2015. 

The initial issues of Extreme Mechanics Letters are freely accessible.  We look forward to receiving your submissions.  Your contribution will help to build this home of mechanicians.

Editors-in-Chief

• Jimmy Hsia, Carnegie Mellon University

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) just released a new international standard titled: "Overhead lines - Method for fatigue testing of conductors". IEC 62568. Edition 1.0 2015-07. www.iec.ch . It closely follows previous CIGRE and EPRI publications on this topic:

CIGRE SC B2 WG11 TF7 "Fatigue Endurance Capability of Conductor/Clamp Systems - Update of Present Knowledge" CIGRE TB 332, 2007, Paris.

Since 2012, Elsevier has been periodically offering free access to scientific content to support young scholars in between jobs or looking for their first postdoctoral position. Qualified applicants were granted six months free access to all our journals and books on ScienceDirect and were able to use this access to work on grant applications and research projects.

Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Letters (TAML) Best Paper Award goes to the best paper published in TAML per year. Particular attention is given to innovative articles. All awarded articles are available free online at www. taml. cstam.org.cn.

A postdoctoral research associate position is available immediately in the Computational Materials & Mechanics Laboratory at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla), http://web.mst.edu/~aslezaeemm/

Candidates need to have a strong background in Molecular Dynamics (MD) or Phase Field Modeling (PFM).

Interested candidates should send their CV and three of their journal articles (in MD or PFM area) to Prof. Zaeem at zaeem@mst.edu.

A new postdoctoral fellow position is available within the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (hemi.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins University.  The position is in the area of experiments and modeling of inelastic deformations in geological materials (including damage and micromechanics of fracture) under impact mechanical loading conditions.  The potential candidate will (a) assist in the development of theoretical and computational models for dynamic behavior and failure of geological materials, (b) closely interact with experts in x-ray phase

Three post-doctoral positions are available at the University of Luxembourg with the ERC RealTCut project.
See http://www.legato-team.eu for details on the team and the attached PDF for the pre-requisites and possible research areas.

Regards,

Stéphane

Saint-Gobain job opportunity:

Senior Research Engineer I

Competency Research Labs – Engineering Mechanics

Saint-Gobain R&D Center, Northboro, Massachusetts, USA

Reference number: 522087

Apply online for this job or check out our other career opportunities!

www.saint-gobain-experience.com/en/career-opportunities

WHO WE ARE:

We are looking to fill a permanent position as lecturer/senior lecturer in Applied Mechanics and are particularly keen to hear from successful academics with an established track record of high quality research in numerical methods in computational mechanics. Full details are on the University Jobs webpages, look for reference 4809, https://www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/ and the closing date is August 10th.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/ra/c4ra11412d#!divAbstract

R. Xiao, J. Guo, T. D. Nguyen RSC Adv., 2015,5, 416-423

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/sm/c5sm00543d#!divAbstract

The University of New Mexico, Department of Mathematics and Statistics is seeking candidates for a post-doctoral position to conduct research in the modeling of sea ice mechanics. A Ph.D. in applied mathematics or related field is required.  The applicant should also have a background in numerical simulation, including parallel computing, and background in mechanics.  Familiarity with the following areas is a plus:  sea ice properties, the material-point method, computational inelasticity, fracture mechanics.

The initial results of level I of micromechanics simulation challenge have been compiled into a report, which is available at https://cdmhub.org/resources/948.  Results for various composites including iber reinforced composites, particle reinforced composites, laminates, woven composites, short fiber composites from several readily available micromechanics simulation tools include MAC/GMC, MAC/HFGMC, FVDAM, MDS, DIGIMAT, SwiftComp are compiled.

Novelis is hiring for a Principal Scientist in Atlanta, GA. 

The Newton International Fellowship scheme is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK. 

Highlights:

 A model for the free energy of the edge of an open lipid bilayer is derived.

The derivation is based on the interactions of the molecules comprising the edge.

The derived model can be employed to study pore growth in open lipid bilayers.

The model captures bending and torsional energies of the edge, in addition to the line tension.

The molecular origins of spontaneous curvatures and elastic moduli are investigated.

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, 2015, and must not be more than 5 years beyond receipt of their doctoral degree at the time the award is made.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/07/01/1502870112.full.pdf?with-ds...

H. Zhu*, S. Zhu*, Z. Jia*, S. Parvinian, Y. Li, O. Vaaland, L. Hu, T. Li, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Early Edition, 2015 (DOI:10.1073/pnas.1502870112)

The Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, seeks nominations for the awards listed below. All the awards are international. Neither the nominee nor the nominator need be a member of the ASME. However nominators must not be active members of the respective award committees. Further descriptions of the awards are given at http://divisions.asme.org/amd/Honors_Awards.cfm. A PDF version of this announcement can be found as an attachment at the end of this blog entry.

Two Ph.D. candidate positions are available at the Institute of Structural Analysis (ISD) of Leibniz Universität Hannover within the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Training Network project FULLCOMP - FULLy integrated analysis, design, manufacturing and health-monitoring of COMPosite structures.