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The Laboratory for Soil Mechanics (LMS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is looking for a Postdoctoral research fellow working on design and predictive modeling of real scale experiments for nuclear waste disposal. The foreseen activities include the implementation of advanced constitutive models developed at the LMS in a FE code and the implementation of 3D FE computations to simulate the repository behaviour.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the

SAE 2013 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition 

October 1-3, 2013 

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center 

Rosemont, Illinois 

Tunable Tensile Ductility in Metallic Glasses

D.J. Magagnosc, R. Ehrbar, G. Kumar, M.R. He, J. Schroers, D.S. Gianola

Scientific Reports 3 (2013) 1096 

The Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department at Drexel University is seeking to fill multiple tenure-track faculty positions starting fall of 2013. Priority will be given to candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

1. Computational Solid Mechanics: Specific areas include, but are not limited to, emerging computational methods with emphasis on sub-continuum scale simulations and high performance computing for multiscale mechanics of novel materials.

Dear Colleagues:

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to Track 10-23 on “Mechanics of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials” at the ASME IMECE 2013, to be held Nov. 15-21, 2013, in San Diego, CA.

This paper is studied constitutive modeling of SMAs, that have some new features. Also some multiaxial loadings on SMAs are investigated experimentally.

PACAM 2013 (Houston) has some limited funds which will
be used to provide partial support to participants from the USA.  The financial support is provided by the
National Science Foundation and the University of Houston. The primary targets
of the travel scholarships are graduate students, post-docs and early career
researchers e.g. assistant professors. The deadline for receipt of the completed
scholarship application is 21st
February, 2013.

The Superior Councils for Science and Technological Development of Chile will
call on April for the FONDECYT Postdoctoral Grants Competition.

The available grants are for 2 or 3 years. The applicants must have obtained
their Doctorate degrees approximately between July of 2010 and the end of
September of 2013 (the exact dates will appear in the page of the agency later
on).

The closing date for applications is Monday Feb 18, 2013

Two-phase electrochemical lithiation in amorphous silicon
Jiangwei Wang, Yu He, Feifei Fan, Xiao-Hua Liu, Shuman Xia, Yang Liu, Thomas Harris, Hong Li, Jian Yu Huang, Scott X. Mao, and Ting Zhu
Nano Letters, Publication Date (Web): January 16, 2013
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl304379k

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at
El Paso is seeking a highly motivated and experienced graduate student
as a paid research assistant (RA) in our new Ph.D. program in Biomedical
Engineering for the Fall of 2013 or sooner if key applicant is found.
Research will be conducted in the newly established musculoskeletal
biomechanics laboratory in our new Biomedical Engineering Building.

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider to attend the symposium entitled  "Lithium ion batteries - when chemistry meets mechanics"  at the occasion of the Joint Society of Engineering Science (SES) 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting, July 28-31, 2013, at Brown University.

The description of the symposium is attached below.

The following speakers will contribute invited talks in the symposium: Yi Cui, William D. Nix, Martin Bazant, Brian Sheldon, Gleb Yushin, Scott Mao, Reiner Moenig, and Yue Qi

Dear Colleagues,

The Thirteenth
Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XIII) will be held in
Houston, TX, USA. The conference dates are May 22-24th, 2013.

We cordially invite you to participate in Phononics 2013: The Second International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Optomechanics – to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from June 2–7, 2013. The conference covers the following themes:

(1) phononic crystals, (2) acoustic metamaterials, (3) wave propagation in periodic structures, (4) nanoscale phonon transport, and (5) optomechanics.  

More information available at: www.phononics2013.org.

A Special Session on Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications is being organized within the 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART 2013, June 24-26, Torino, Italy), http://www.mul2.polito.it/smart13. Organizers are M. Paggi, L. De Lorenzis and A. Piccolroaz.

Based on several requests, the deadline to submit abstracts for the Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics XIII has been extended to the 1st of February. This years PACAM will be held in Houston, TX--the first time PACAM is being held in North America! The conference will feature plenary talks by Professors Alan Needleman, K. Ravichandar and Roger Fosdick.

 The link to the conference website is here: http://www.conferencetoolbox.org/PACAMXIII/

Animal cells behave like fluid-filled sponges in response to being mechanically deformed according to new research published in Nature Materials.

Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL have shown that animal cells behave according to the theory of ‘poroelasticity’ when mechanically stimulated in a way similar to that experienced in organs within the body. The results indicate that the rate of cell deformation in response to mechanical stress is limited by how quickly water can redistribute within the cell interior.

You are welcome to submit abstracts to the MS 4.5 "Multiscale Computational homogenization for bridging scales in the mechanics and physics of complex materials", organized by P. Wriggers, K. Terada, V. Kouznetsova, M. Cho and myself at the 12th US National Congress on Computation Mechanics (USNCCM), July 22-25, 2013, in Raleigh, USA.

http://12.usnccm.org/

The  deadline fo abstract submission is February 15, 2013.

The topics of the MS can be found here:

IMDEA Materials Institute  (www.materials.imdea.org) is looking for post-doctoral researchers to work in two research projects devoted to:

- Development of multiscale modeling strategies to simulate the mechanical performance of structural composites under impact

- Development of microstructure-based multiscale models to simulate the mechanical behavior of Ni-based superalloys

Phanindhar Shivapooja†, Qiming Wang†, Beatriz Orihuela, Daniel Rittschof, and Gabriel P. López, Xuanhe Zhao

† Equal contribution

We cordially invite you to participate in at the 3rd African Conference on Computational Mechanics - An International Conference – AfriCOMP13 (July 30 – August 2, 2013, Livingston, Zambia) by giving a talk in our minisymposium "Computational modeling of nano- and microstructured materials". 

Dear Colleagues:

Brown University will host the SES 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting (July 28-31, 2013). It is our great pleasure to welcome you to submit abstracts to the symposium

Crack initiation and growth: methods, applications, and challenges.

A postdoc position is available in Dr. Qi’s group in the
Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Colorado Boulder starting
from April, 2013. The project will involve mechanics and design of polymer
composites. Candidates should have strong background in solid mechanics,
physics and constitutive modeling of polymers, and computational mechanics. Interested
candidates should send his/her CV together with a list of 2-3 references to
qih@colorado.edu.