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The Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at Aarhus University, Denmark, invites applications for a position as Full Professor in Structural Mechanics. The position is available from 15 January 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The
position is permanent.

Expected start date and duration of employment
15 January 2025 or as soon as possible

Daedalus, our research group at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is announcing an opening for a postdoctoral researcher. We are looking for an individual with a background in solid/experimental mechanics or polymer engineering to contribute to our pioneering projects on high-throughput mechanical testing methods and mechanics of flexible materials. This project is a collaborative effort with a major industrial partner in the US, making it an excellent opportunity for those interested in exploring a novel application area and pursuing an academic career.

For ionic and dielectric materials, the polarization (dipole moment per unit cell) is plagued with non-uniqueness. As a 1D example, consider a 1D line of alternating positive and negative charges. If we agree that the dipole is a vector from the negative to the positive charge, then we have two choices for the dipole. This is because every negative charge has two different positive charges in its immediate vicinity. The situation gets more complicated in higher dimensions.

We are happy to announce the next cycle of bi-annual ICME  (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering)  award established by the AIAA ICME Working Group with the support of Composite Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB), NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), and Rolls Royce Corporation. This recognition includes recognition at SciTech 2026 conference and a $1,500.00 team award.

Hello,

We are looking for a doctoral student to work on wave-ice interaction. The emphasis in this research is on experiments in the 40m x 40m Aalto Ice and Wave Tank with a novel wave-maker, and our interest extends to ship-wave-ice interaction. The position is fully funded for four years and may include also field work. 

We have two open PhD positions as MSCA Fellow in the FibReLoop project (see full description of this project at the end of this post). These positions will be hosted by the Composite Materials Group at KU Leuven (www.composites-kuleuven.be). These are the two titles:

Postdoctoral Position Available

EML Webinar (Young Researchers Forum) on 2 July 2024 will be given by Mingchao Liu at the University of Birmingham

Title: Morphing and moving matter: mimicking nature

One PhD position is available immediately at CEMEF Mines Paris, in the French Riviera.

PhD topic : Modeling of plastic deformation of Titanium alloys in α/β domain
Funding : Continuum consortium
Industrial Partners : Airbus, Aubert&Duval, Safran and Timet
Academic Partners : Chimie ParisTech, Institut Pprime and CEMEF

Interested applicants can send a resume to : daniel.pino_munoz@mines-paristech.fr

A dream came true, and the fifth submission of this networking project to COST Association was approved for funding.

It will start from November 2024 for the total duration of 4 years. The broad cooperation will focus on developing tools and data sets, which can streamline research and validation of fatigue estimation criteria.

Please join us for next seminar presented by Yakov Zelickman. Dr. Yakov Zelickman from Johns Hopkins University will present their latest research on the design and optimization of sustainable structures.

Dear colleagues, 

Position details: The Autonomy and Intelligence of Materials and Structures (AIMS) group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) at the University of Alabama has an opening for a PhD student starting from Spring 2025. The research theme for this position is Mechanics and Manufacturing of Architected Devices. Students with the following profile will be considered.

Qualifications:

Dera iMechanica Community,

Below is information about a short course I will be offering at MIT this summer, in Live Virtual format: Machine Learning for Materials Informatics (Jul 29 - Aug 2, 2024).  This is an exciting opportunity that will cover fundamentals and applications in the emerging space of AI/ML for engineering, featuring hands-on interactive code development in Jupyter notebooks. We'll do a deep dive into all critical tools from autoencoders to graph neural nets to multimodal LLMs and multi-agent modeling. Please reach out to me if you have any questions.

Dear colleagues, I would like to share our new article (open access) that presents length scale insensitive phase-field fracture models for brittle and ductile fracture to address the deficiencies of the widely implemented models which over-estimate crack dissipation. 

W. Huber and M. Asle Zaeem. Length scale insensitive phase-field fracture methodology for brittle and ductile materials. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 133 (2024) 104500.

Dear colleague

   I wonder if you could be interested in this idea of "Cancelling the effect of sharp notches or cracks with graded elastic modulus materials", particularly if you know who could help doing some experiments. Thanks for any comment, since this is a preprint it would be useful to discuss to make improvements.    RegardsMike    Cancelling the effect of sharp notches or cracks with graded elastic modulus materials

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M, www.uc3m.es) invites to apply for the following PhD position at the Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis:

Ref. HFSP-ECM-PhD: Modelling the extracellular matrix for vibrational information transfer between living cells

Please read the attached load for a complete description of the PhD topic, and conditions.

Dear colleagues, our new article (open access) is just published in Acta Materialia. In this research, we provide new insights into the mechanism of ferroelastic deformation by studying the evolution of domains in different microstructure patterns and under different loading directions and strain rates.

A. Bhattacharya and M. Asle Zaeem. A phase-field model for study of ferroelastic deformation behavior in yttria stabilized zirconia. Acta Materialia (2024) 120039.

We are looking for an enthusiastic student with a MSc degree to conduct research in the area of Machine Learning and finite element modelling of materials. Students with a degree in mechanical or materials engineering or mathematics are encouraged to apply.

Suraj Ravindran

Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota

1. Introduction

Morphing soft matter, which is capable of changing its shape and function in response to stimuli, has wide-ranging applications in robotics, medicine and biology. Recently, computational models have accelerated its development. Here, we highlight advances and challenges in developing computational techniques, and explore the potential applications enabled by such models.

Yifan Yang, Fan Xu*

Nature Computational Science, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-024-00647-y