iMechanica

The nonlinear piezoelectric tuned vibration absorber

By: Payam SOLTANI and Gaetan KERSCHEN

Abstract:

The Society of Engineering Science (SES) oversees several awards and honors to members and eminent scholars of the field. A total of five medals are offered on an annual basis as well as election to Fellow grade of the Society. The awards are: A.C. Eringen Medal, Engineering Science Medal, William Prager Medal, G.I. Taylor Medal and the SES Young Investigator Medal.

Surface Plasmon Resonance-Induced Stiffening of Silver Nanowires

http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150529/srep10574/full/srep10574.html

Optomechanics of Soft Materials

Ruobing Bai and Zhigang Suo

We are looking for three postdoctoral researchers to work at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 

1. Two researchers are to work on water remediation and desalination using computational methods at the atomistic level.  

2. One researcher is to work on fracture behavior of weldments using computational methods at the microstructural leve.

Peridynamic theory of solids from the perspective of classical statistical mechanics

R. Rahman, J.T. Foster

Highlights

Mechanics of wrinkle/ridge transitions in thin film/substrate systems

Lihua Jin, Atsushi Takei,  JohnW.Hutchinson

To improve further computational tools for fracture, we need a 

talented phd. We are developping transition models from damage

to fracture  for several type of materials (quasi-brittle and ductile).

The position will be open until filled. Please send me your CV

if you are interested. 

The theoretical framework is the Thick Level Set model for damage (TLS)

and the numerical implementation uses level sets and the extended

finite element  method (X-FEM).

The research team currently gathers 9 persons.

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine X (http://cbm.mech.uwa.edu.au/) will be held in Munich, Germany, on 5 October 2015, in conjunction with MICCAI 2015 (http://www.miccai2015.org/).
 
Join us in celebrating the tenth anniversary of our workshop, which began in Copenhagen in 2006, then went to Brisbane (2007), New York (2008), London (2009), Beijing (2010), Toronto (2011), Nice (2012), Nagoya (2013), and last year to MIT Boston (2014).
 

Dear colleagues and friends,

Please consider to contribute a talk at the symposium of “Mechanics of Instability and Interfacial Adhesion in Bio-Compatible Electronics”, organized for the 52nd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES). The SES 2015 meeting will be held at Texas A&M University, Oct 26-28, 2015.  Abstracts are due Jun 26, 2015. 

The Graduate School -1483 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Process Chains in Production - Interaction, Modeling and Assessment of Process Zones” at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences invite applications for a PhD candidate position (Salary scale TV-L E13).

The Computational Physics Group at the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame is seeking a highly qualified candidate for the post-doctoral associate position in Computational Science and Engineering. The successful candidates will be a key part of a team that is developing and implementing adaptive, multiscale, high-performance (parallel) computational algorithms for numerical solutions of chemo-thermo-mechanical PDE’s with emphasis on complex heterogeneous materials, such as heterogeneous reactive composites, etc. 

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the Symposium on "Mechanics and Characterization of Micro/nanoporous Materials and Applications in Energy and Environments" at the 2015 SES meeting to be held at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, October 25-28, 2015.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

--Mechanics and design of micro/nanoporous materials

--Interface mechanics of functionalized micro/nanoporous materials

Dear Colleagues:

Please, consider to attend the symposium entitled "Computational Materials with Emphasis on Phase Transformation" organized for the occasion of the 52nd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES). The SES meeting will be held at Texas A&M University, October 26 - 28, 2015 (http://ses-2015.org/).

The outmost surface of engineering materials typically faces the most severe risk of damage. When such boundary conditions are given, employment of graded structures is desired to enhance the safety of the structure in an economic way [1]. Mechanically, adopted gradient structures typically involves change in Young’s modulus or strength, and are beneficial to crack shielding, reducing stress concentration, retarding shear localization, etc.

The work involves working independently and collaboratively on "Investigating the fatigue life of different grades of polyethylene". The Phd student will be conducting heavy experimental work to fully characterize the fatigue property of Polyethylene. The modeling part is the second part of this work; which involves developing criterion and cumulative damage laws to predict the fatigue life of polyethylene under multiaxial loadings.

The section for Mixed Conductors, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, is seeking a candidate for a PhD student position as part of the project “Synfuel: Sustainable synthetic fuels from biomass gasification and electrolysis”.

There is an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research associate position in the Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM) at RPI, Troy NY to work on problems involving novel iterative algorithms for nonlinear problems in solid mechanics using nonconventional discretization schemes. Encouraged to apply are creative, self-motivated candidates with a sound background in computational mechanics.

Dear colleagues,

on behalf of the course organizer, I would like to bring to your attention to the advanced course on Modeling of localized inelastic deformation that will be taught by Milan Jirasek in Prague, Czech Republic on 7-11 September 2015. More detailed information on the course is posted at http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2015.html. We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague!

If you are strongly motivated to work with a very active group in Solid Mechanics,

we have a PostDoc position (18 months) available from June 2015.

Deadline for application is June 15, 2015, 12.00 pm (Italian time).

The position is addressed to numerical/theoretical modelling of cellular materials obtained via 3D printing.

For details about the application see the attachment.

DEPARTMENT:  Department of Energy

AGENCY:  National Energy Technology Laboratory

LEVEL:  Post-Doctoral

POSITION INFORMATION:  Temporary, 12 months full-time with the possibility of extension

DUTY LOCATION:  Albany, Oregon

Two postdoctoral fellow positions in solid mechanics/biomechanics at Dartmouth are available from July 2015.

The subjects of research include, but are not limited to, mechanics of morphogenesis in embryos and plants, fast motion of plants (e.g., the Venus flytrap's rapid closure), mechanical self-assembly and instability of thin structures (e.g., DNA, origami structures, plant tendrils, self-assembly of nanostructures, etc.), and bioinspired structures.

We are pleased to announce a 4-day CECAM/Psi-k Workshop on

"Chemical and structural transformations in materials under mechanical load",

 that will take place at the EPFL campus in Lausanne from Tuesday 1st September to Friday 4th September 2015.

This is just a reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the ICMOBT Conference is now only a month away.
Submit your abstract NOW! http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/submit-abstract.asp

Oral and poster abstracts are invited on the following topics and should be submitted using the online abstract submission system by 26 June 2015. For a more detailed list of topics, please check the conference website.

1. Biological Materials
2. Biomaterials
3. Bioinspired Materials