Competition for a post-doc position on computational mechanics now open at IMT Lucca
Dear Colleague,
this is to inform you that the research unit MUSAM "Multi-scale Analysis of Materials" (http://musam.imtlucca.it) at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) has opened 1 Post-doctoral Fellow position (1 year but renewable for a maximum of 3 years in total) on Computational mechanics applied to solar energy materials, related to the ERC Starting Grant CA2PVM
(http://musam.imtlucca.it/CA2PVM.html) and under my supervision.
Split Hopkinson Compression Test data analysis
I have performed some high strain rate split hopkinson
compression tests. The oscilloscope reads the incident and reflected
displacments (in input pressure bar) and transmitted displacment (in output
pressure bar) in volt. To convert displacement in volt (output voltage) to
mechanical strain (m/m), I have a difficalty. What is the relationship between
the output voltage (volt) (the reading from oscilloscope), excitation voltage (volt)
and strain gauge Gauge Factor (GF)?
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Post-doctoral position (computational mechanics) at Rice University
Post-doctoral position available in computational mechanics at Rice University. The announcement and instructions to apply are posted at
Mechanics journal impact factors 2012
Some funding agencies require that articles be published only in journals with impact factors greater than 1. Here's a list from 2012 that tells you which to choose (if you care about impact factors).
-- Biswajit
Announcing Wear of Materials 2015 - Website has just gone live
20th International Conference on Wear of Materials
12-16 April 2015
The Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada
The 20th International Conference on Wear of Materials will focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of wear and friction of materials at the macro-, micro-, and nano-scale. It will address the understanding of tribological phenomena; particularly the progress in recent decades and a special session will concentrate on modeling of wear.
Paper: On finding cohesive law parameters for foam-metal interfaces
A detailed report of our work on trying to find cohesive laws for interfacial fracture is attached. I will add the experimental data after a shorter version of this report has been published.
The reason for posting this report on iMechanica is so that people who want to replicate the tests or perform similar tests know what is involved. As we have found out, many details and potential problems faced by an experimentalist are hard to determine from the concise papers that are typically published as journal articles.
Faculty Position - Computational Materials Science
The Department of Mechanical Engineering
at the University of Wyoming invites applications for a tenure-track faculty
position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the area of computational
materials science. The successful
applicant will be expected to establish an externally funded research program, develop
collaboration within the Department and College, mentor graduate students, and teach
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Minimum qualifications include an earned doctorate in mechanical
CISM Advanced Course "Ferroic Functional Materials"
We would like to draw your attention to the advanced course at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) to be held in Udine (Italy) from September 8 through 12, 2014 on the topic of: "FERROIC FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS: EXPERIMENT, MODELING AND SIMULATION". The advanced course will comprise of distinguished lectures from the following experts:
- Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech, USA)
- Manfred Fiebig (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- John Huber (University of Oxford, UK)
- Doru C. Lupascu (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Modelling fracture of graphene using Griffith’s criterion and quantized fracture mechanics
In armchair graphene sheets, crack propagates perpendicular to the applied strain, whereas crack propagation in zigzag sheets occurs at an angle to the straining direction. This occurs due to different bond structure along armchair and zigzag directions as shown in Fig. 1. Videos 1 and 2 show the fracture of armchair and zigzag sheets, respectively.
Fig. 1: Armchair and zigzag directions of graohene