iMechanica

Dear Colleague,

The problem of the detachment of a flat indenter from a plane adhesive viscoelastic strip of thickness “b” is studied.

Two fully funded PhD positions are available as early as Spring, 2024 in Dr. Ning Zhang’s research group at the Baylor University. The research work will focus on the mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties of structural and multifunctional materials.

The research topics include:

(1)   Polymer composites;

Two postdoctoral positions are available in the Theoretical & Applied Geomechanics research group at the University of British Columbia. Both positions offer a two-year appointment with the possibility of a contract extension. Successful candidates will benefit from exposure to a dynamic international research environment and opportunities for various areas of professional development.

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Postdoctoral Fellow Position
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL, USA

Job Description:

I am hiring a postdoc colleague for our SUCHSM lab at IIT Hyderabad through Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowships (IITH-IPDF). Candidates interested in continuum mechanics, molecular statics, or computational mechanics are encouraged to contact me with their updated CVs by 12th Feb. Applications are open to Indian citizens only. 

Application Form: https://iith.ac.in/news/2024/01/31/IITH-IPDF-2024/

A fully supported PhD position in computational mechanics and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook University. The position is part of a collaborative project led by Drs. Rigoberto Burgueño, Paolo Celli, and George Moutsanidis. The successful applicant will work within an interdisciplinary research team focusing on the design of innovative structures for marine hydrokinetic energy devices, and will concentrate on the development and application of advanced numerical techniques to support these efforts.

Technical University of Denmark, Risø Campus (30 km from Copenhagen): New vacant postdoc position for 1 years (extension is possible). LinK: https://efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/C... You are expected to have a PhD, good knowledge of mechanics of materials, computational micromechanics, finite element simulations (ABAQUS) as well as programming in a higher-level language (Python, including Numpy package).

If you have NSF-funded projects, please encourage your students to submit posters to ASME IMECE topic 16-1 and 16-2 (REU only)! NSF provides 30+ travel awards ($1200 each) to cover student travel cost, plus chances to win poster competition awards.

 Micro-and nano-rods have been identified for various applications in actuators, sensors, and energy harvesters. This paper develops a general framework for micro-and nano-rods based on the one-dimensional strain-gradient theory for special Cosserat rods that considers large displacement and rotation of the cross section, chirality, and size effects. Initially, we obtain the linear momentum balance and angular momentum balance equations for rods utilizing the three-dimensional strain-gradient elasticity theory.

Journal Club for February 2024: Mechanics in Solid-State Batteries: Mechanical Properties, Interfacial Failure, and Multiphysics Modeling

Wei Li=, Ruqing Fang=, Junning Jiao, Juner Zhu*

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University

* Corresponding author: j.zhu@northeastern.edu
= Authors with equal contributions to this article

1. General introduction

USACM Nanotechnology and Lower Scale Phenomena TTA,  webinar is on Jan 31, at 2-3 pm central time.

Speaker: Prof. Surya R. Kalidindi from Georgia Institute of Technology

We have Prof. Raymundo Arróyave of Texas A&M University as the discussant.

We are hoping the format will promote a lively interactive discussion and engage members of our community. We look forward to seeing you there.  Please forward this to anyone who may be interested.

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I have a postdoc position available immediately in my research group (https://engineering.rowan.edu/dehub/). The position offers very competitive salary and it relates to an externally funded project on a cutting-edge topic of design optimization of metal parts for aerospace applications. The interested candidates must have a demonstrated capability to perform mechanical testing coupled with optical metrology and need to have good understanding of computational modeling. Please contact me directly as the position will be filled quickly.

I have an opening in my group for a 2-year postdoc position offering applicants an exciting opportunity to join my ERC-funded project “ALPS - AI-based Learning for Physical Simulation”.

Job description

You will be contributing to developing novel algorithms at the intersection of computational physics and machine learning for the automatic identification of symbolic models of physical systems starting from experimental data.

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate for a PhD position between École des Ponts ParisTech and University of Pavia, starting October 2024. The position is part of the EU-funded project MISCEA, an ambitious multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Network under the Horizon-Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND.

Uditnarayan Kouskiya                    Amit Acharya

We demonstrate the feasibility of a scheme to obtain approximate weak solutions to (inviscid) Burgers equation in conservation and Hamilton-Jacobi form, treated as degenerate elliptic problems. We show different variants recover non-unique weak solutions as appropriate, and also specific constructive approaches to recover the corresponding entropy solutions.

By considering the frictional sliding of randomly distributed entanglements within the polymer network upon mechanical stretches, we develop a constitutive theory to describe the large stretch behaviors of highly entangled hydrogels. 

doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-024-3076-8

Solidification phenomenon has been an integral part of the manufacturing processes of metals, where the quantification ofstochastic variations and manufacturing uncertainties is critically important. Accurate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations ofmetal solidification and the resulting properties require excessive computational expenses for probabilistic stochastic analyseswhere thousands of random realizations are necessary.

Please consider reading our two recent papers: (1) "Modeling single-molecule stretching experiments using statistical thermodynamics" in Physical Review E, and (2) "Statistical mechanical model for crack growth" also in Physical Review E.

This paper provides a brief review on modeling of composite structures. Composite structures in this paper refer to any structure featuring anisotropy and heterogeneity, including but not limited to their traditional meaning of composite laminates made of unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites. Common methods used in modeling of composite structures, including the axiomatic method, the formal asymptotic method, and the variational asymptotic method, are illustrated in deriving the classical lamination theory for the composite laminated plates to see their commonalities and differences.

Organization: Biomedical Engineering Laboratory / School of AME / University of Oklahoma

Location: Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Date Needed: Available immediately

Primary Category: Research staff member for animal (chinchilla) studies

Type of Position: Full-Time

Salary:  To be comparable and determined

Dear Colleagues, Within the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024) to be held in Daegu, South Korea, 25 – 30 Aug 2024,Vikram Pakrashi (University College Dublin - Ireland) and myself (Francesco Dal Corso, University of Trento - Italy) are organising the Thematic Session 'FS08 - Education in mechanics'. 

Dear Colleague,

we invite you and your interested colleagues and students to submit a contribution to the mini-symposium MS036:

“Smart Soft Materials: Additive Manufacturing, Modeling, Design, and Experimentation”

within the 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMA2024), that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 3-7, 2024.

The deadline for presenting an abstract has been extended to January, 29th 2024.

EML Webinar (Young Researchers Forum) on 16 January 2024 will be given by Xueju Wang at University of Connecticut via Zoom meeting

Title: Morphing Materials and Multifunctional Structures/Electronics for Intelligent Systems