Underlying Material Response for Lüders-Like Instabilities
► The underlying material response of partially unstable materials is measured. ► This is done for Lüders deformed steel and a shape memory alloy. ► They both exhibit an up-down-up response. ► The extracted responses used in numerical models reproduce the structural responses.
Call for Papers: Mechanics of Composites, 8-12 June 2014 at Stony Brook University, NY, USA
The 1st International Conference on Mechanics of Composites will be hosted by Stony Brook University, Long Island, New York, USA. This conference intends to bring forward the best research and applications on composite materials and structures. The conference has the support of Composite Structures, an International Journal of Elsevier.
The Conference will take place from 8-12 June 2014.
Haythornthwaite Foundation-ASME AMD Research Initiation Grant 2013
Please go to the following link if you'd like to apply for 2013.
https://community.asme.org/applied_mechanics_division/w/wiki/3471.honors-awards.aspx
Good luck
Ken
Associate Professor Position in High Performance Computational Methods at Northwestern
Applicants are invited to apply for a tenure track faculty position in Mechanical Engineering at the Associate Professor level in computational science and engineering at Northwestern University. Higher level appointments will be considered under special qualifications. Candidates are expected to demonstrate strong skills in leadership and a commitment to collaboration and teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programs of the McCormick School of Engineering.
URGENT: phd position in the group of Prof Bigoni (Trento, Italy) with possible sharing with us in PoliBA
I received this letter from Prof Davide Bigoni
Marie Curie PhD position at University of Trento (Italy): deadline September 15
It is a top opportunity in Italy, the leading group in Italy in elasticity, plasticity and nonlinear elasticity. A very active university and town.
I expect many applications.
prof. MC
PhD STUDENTSHIPS FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION
The laboratory for fluid structure interaction (LIFE) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain is looking for a PhD cadidate. The student will work in a project involving fluid-structure interaction in offshore engineering with applications to wind energy and the dynamics of offshore structures.
More information can be seen in the attached PDF or in http://www.etseq.urv.es/life/.
Bulge test at nano-scale: The surface effects
Bulge test is an effective technique to measure the mechanical properties of thin films. As the membrane size decreases to nano-scale, the surface effect plays a significant role in determining the mechanical behavior of the membrane, and the techniques commonly used to measure the bulk materials properties are not applicable. We explore the surface effect on the nano-scale bulge test using combined continuum theories and atomistic simulations. We formulate the load-deflection relation by incorporating the surface effect and analyze its size-dependent behavior. The present theoretical model is in quantitative agreement with the molecular dynamics simulations.