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The ICE's journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics is planning a themed issue on Direct Methods. If you would like to learn more, please follow the link below:

http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/upload/Direct_Methods_CFP.pdf

Dear everyone!

The second issue in 2014 (Volume 30, Issue 2) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is now online.

Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston (UH), Cullen College of Engineering seeks a highly motivated and creative person for a faculty position to build a world-class research program on semiconductor device manufacturing and mechanics with emphasis on energy applications. Flexible electronics manufacturing is another area of interest. The University of Houston has recently made a significant investment to establish a 74-acre Energy Research Park (ERP) and has now established a 13,000 sq.ft. state-of-the-art Energy Devices Fabrication Laboratory in the Park.

Seven finalists have been identified for the 2014 Melosh Competition to be held Friday, April 25, at Duke University.  The finalists and their current institutions are:

Amin Aghaei, Carnegie Mellon University

Sourish Chakravarty, SUNY Buffalo

Gina El Jannoun, MINES ParisTech

Mhadi Moghadam, UCSD

Phani Motamarri, University of Michigan

Nathan Roberts, University of Texas

Timothy Truster, University of Tennessee

Please join me in congratulating the finalists!!! 

The Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will organize the first international conference in Hong Kong. The 2015 EMI International Conference of ASCE will be held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in its beautiful downtown Kowloon campus on January 7-9, 2015 and will be chaired by Prof. K.T. Chau.

Institution:  POLITECNICO di MILANO – Italy

Ph.D. Supervisor:  Prof. Valter Carvelli

Funding Availability: 
FP7-Marie Curie-ITN Endure

Deadline application: Aprili 29th, 2014

One
Ph.D. position
(Early-Stage Researcher) of 36 months, in the framework of EU Marie
Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN Endure (see http://www.endure-itn.eu)

The US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) publishes periodic Reports on Recent Trends in Mechanics. An archive of recent reports can be found at the Committee’s website. The USNCTAM has reorganized the process for generating such reports; a SubCommittee (K. Ravi‐Chandar, Chair (ravi@utexas.edu), G. McKinley, Vice‐Chair (gareth@MIT.EDU), A.

Here is the call for proposals .   The due date is 1 May 2014.

Dear friends of IMechanica:

Primary data mining through Web of Science
reveals that the number of papers containing “continuum mechanics ” increases
rapidly these years. This is a very exciting fact to our mechanicians. Thus, I
wrote a short paper titled “The Renaissance of Continuum Mechanics”, which was just
published online via:

Hi,

 Please refer to the figure given below. I want model this problem using ABAQUS.

河海大学创建于1915年，校本部位于南京市区风景秀丽的清凉山北麓，并在常州市新北区、南京市江宁区设有校区，总占地面积2300余亩。河海大学是以水利为特色，工科为主，多学科协调发展的教育部直属全国重点大学，实施国家“211工程”重点建设、国家优势学科创新平台建设以及设立研究生院的高校。

河海大学力学与材料学院前身为河海大学工程力学系、材料科学与工程系，创建于1959年，是学校历史最悠久的系科之一。现有教职员工120余人、教师90余人，含国家教学名师、国家千人计划获得者、国家杰出青年基金获得者、江苏省特聘教授等各类省部级人才计划获得者20余人次。

Prof. Markus Buehler from MIT will receive the 2014 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for his paper "Bioinspired graphene nanogut" (Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 80, article 061009, 2013).  Profs. Katia Bertoldi from Harvard University and Oscar Lopez-Pamies from University of Illinois will also receive the 2014 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for their paper "Some remarks on the effect of interphases on the mechanical response and stability of fiber-reinforced elastomers" (Journal of Applied Mechanics, v 79, article 031023, 2012). 

If you are interested, and meet the requirement on GPA and GRE (see below), please contact Dr. Ling Liu at liu.usu@gmail.com. Applicants from all related backgrounds are welcome. 

The fellowship will offer: 1) $20,000+/year stipend for 4 years; 2) full tuition waiver; and 3) several other benefits.  

 Fuel Cell Ceramics Reliability Summer Intern. 

Interested candidates with a background in mechanical, material science. solid mechanics please email your resume to amit.pandey/at/lgfcs/dot/com with the subject title "Fuel Cell
Ceramics Reliability Summer Intern"

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Most technologically relevant ferroelectrics typically lose piezoelectricity above the Curie temperature. This limits their use to relatively low temperatures. In this Letter, exploiting a combination of flexoelectricity and simple functional grading, we propose a strategy for high-temperature electromechanical coupling in a standard thin film configuration.

Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in Computational Mechanics

The School of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Ningbo University, is looking for cadidates for all subjects in the broad field of mechanical engineering and mechanics.  In addition to traditional field of impact and shock waves, piezoelectric devices, material durability, and metal forming, the school are also initiating new directions like vechicle engineering, fluid mechanics, occean engineering, solid mechanics, thermodynamics, vibrations, strength, and other related subjects.

Dear All,

We are planning to offer a PhD position in the area of peridynamics. For more information about our PMMA research group, please visit

http://personal.strath.ac.uk/erkan.oterkus/ 

If you are interested, please send your current CV to oterkus@gmail.com.
This offer is only valid for citizens of European Union countries.

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Erkan.

Postdoc or Ph.D. position for development of offshore plant substructures at Korea University, Korea

Structural Engineering & Mechanics Laboratory at the School of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Korea, has open positions for a Ph.D. student (four years) and a post-doctoral researcher (three years) to pursue research on development of offshore plant substructures funded by Korean government. The position is to commence in August or September 1, 2014.

Requirements

KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Metrology/Calibration Specialist
Competitive Tax-free Salary

           浙江大学航空航天学院力学系招聘“青年千人计划”教师  

This year we are again organising the Computational Biomechanics for Medicine (CBM) Workshop (http://school.mech.uwa.edu.au/CBM2014/) together with the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Conference (MICCAI) (http://www.miccai2014.org/). This year, the workshop will be hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA, on 14th September 2014.
 

This paper presents an effective numerical approach for welding process
parameter optimization to minimize weld-induced distortion in
structures. A numerical optimization framework based on coupled Genetic
Algorithm (GA) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is developed and
implemented for a low and a high fidelity model. Classical weakly
coupled thermo-mechanical analysis with thermo-elasto-plastic
assumptions is carried out for distortion prediction of numerical
models. The search for optimum process parameters is executed by direct
integration of numerical models and GA-based optimization technique. The
developed framework automatically inserts the process parameters into
the simulation models, executes the FE-based welding simulations and