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Recent decades have seen intense developments of hydrogel applications for cell cultures, tissue engineering, soft robotics, and ionic devices. Advanced fabrication techniques for hydrogel structures are being developed to meet user-specified requirements. Existing hydrogel 3D printing techniques place substantial constraints on the physical and chemical properties of hydrogel precursors as well as the printed hydrogel structures. This study proposes a novel method for patterning liquids with a resolution of 100 μm by using the capacitor edge effect.

The Mechanical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work on a project with the Security Technologies Group in the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD.

Prashant K. Jha and Robert Lipton

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2019. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.03.024

Highlights

Two postdoc positions in computational modeling of metallic additive manufacturing are available immediately in the research groups of Prof. Jinhui Yan at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Prof. Wentao Yan at National University of Singapore (NUS). Successful candidates need to be self-motivated and have a solid background in mathematics, mechanics, numerical analysis, and programming (Fortran, C/C++, and Python).

Being able to create accurate medical devices that are closely matched to a patient’s unique anatomy requires precision imaging, measurements, and design. A critical part of PrinterPrezz’s unique medifacturing™ workflow is our process of turning magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans into a 3D CAD image that can be manipulated and used for 3D printing.

I hope some of you may find this work interesting. We show, analytically and numerically, that strain gradient plasticity predicts the existence of an inner elastic field adjacent to the crack tip, reminiscent of a dislocation-free zone. The fact that elastic strains dominate plastic strains near the crack tip implies a paradigm-shift with respect to previous crack tip asymptotic studies in plasticity and gradient plasticity, which neglect elastic strains. 

Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, Norman A. Fleck

This position is strictly for experienced candidates and is located at our Global R&T Centre in Kennesaw GA.

Following the success of three former meetings (Tokyo 2011, Tokyo 2013, Brno 2016), the fourth ISAM4 meeting will be held at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany from August 5th to 8th 2019. 

The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia seeks candidates for one Research Associate position to assist in experimental mechanics of advanced materials in Professor Xiaodong (Chris) Li's lab.

http://oim.by/en/congress-2019.html

I would like to share our recent work published in Nature Communications.

Applications are invited for PhD positions at the Algorithms in Medicine and Neuro-Technology Lab (AIMAN Lab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. "Research" The AIMAN Lab pursues fundamental breakthroughs in biomedical cyber-physical systems.

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Location: Baltimore, MD

Job Description

The Artificial Organs Laboratory at the Department of Surgery of the University of Maryland seeks highly motivated individuals for one post-doctoral research associate positions in the following areas: blood compatibility and design/development of blood contacting medical devices.

Hi All,

We have published an interesting short article on void growth in dual phase titanium alloys. More detailed results are currently under review and will be reported in near future.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927025619300801

Thanks,

Amir

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS) Portuguese National Committee we have the pleasure to extend a warm welcome to everyone planning to attend the

3rd International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICSI2019)

The third ICSI conference will take place on the beautiful Madeira Island, Portugal on 2 – 5 September 2019.

http://www.icsi.pt/

In the framework of the ERC project FricLess, there are various openings at the University of Padova in Italy: one for a PhD student (three years) and three for postdoctoral researchers.

The project involes building a multiscale model for contact, friction, and solid lubrication.

We are seeking for candidates that have experience with numerical simulations of the type of molecular dynamics, dislocation dynamics, crystal plasticity, finite elements.

Dear Colleagues:  the 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science will be hosted by Washington University in St. Louis on October 13-15, 2019. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a Symposium (7.3) to address recent experimental, computational, theoretical and manufacturing advances in the research area of Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials.

I came across a very interesting paper in Engineering Fracture Mechanics about a year ago. It gives some new results of stochastic aspects of fatigue. The paper is:

”On the distribution and scatter of fatigue lives obtained by integration of crack growth curves: Does initial crack size distribution matter?” by M. Ciavarella, A. Papangelo, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol 191 (2018) pp. 111–124.

Matthew P. O'Donnell, Jonathan P. Stacey, Isaac V. Chenchiah, Alberto Pirrera

Our group is part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Techion – Israel Institute of Technology, located in Haifa, Israel.

We employ theoretical and experimental tools to understand the relations between the micro-structure and the macroscopic response of soft materials. Materials of interest include electro-active polymers, 3D printed lattice structures, biopolymers, and gels.

Ph.D. research positions are available immediately in the Advanced Materials Research Lab at the University of Miami to perform NSF-funded research in the area of bio-inspired self-healing of cementitious materials. Highly motivated applicants are encouraged to send a CV to Dr. Ali Ghahremaninezhad via email at a.ghahremani@miami.edu.

The University of Limerick in the Republic of Ireland is seeking to recruit a: 

Lecturer/Lecturer below the bar in Mechanical & Aerospace Design Engineering

Contract Type: Lecturer – Multiannual

Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit your abstract to our Special Session CC16. Structural Health Monitoring and Model Updating for Heritage Structures for The Sixteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering Computing (Civil-Comp 2019).

Date & Location: 16-19 September 2019, Riva del Garda Italy.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2019.

For more details see http://www.civil-compconf.com/

10th International Conference on Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (ICMAE-2019)

Brussels, Belgium

Contact: 
For General Questions
Ms. Celine. Xi
E-mail: secretary@icmae.org