Applications are sought for a Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of California, San Diego (USA) to join the M2DO research lab. The primary research focus is to develop topology optimization for fiber composite material. In particular the research will develop an optimization method for structural topology as well as fiber composite architecture making essential use of the finite element method for structural mechanics. The position is initially for one year with a possibility for renewal. 

Several positions are available

Post Doc #1 [1 yr]

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BCR521/research-associate-in-device-development/

Post Doc #2 [2 yr] 

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BCS340/research-associate-in-computational-mechanics/

 PhD [3 yr - funded at UK/EU rates]

To obtain the principal planes we construct the stress tensor and find the eigen vectors. Here is an attempt to explain it more intuitively rather than the use of the formal mathematical method. Hope you enjoy this video!
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This is an educational outreach initiative targeted at all engineers interested in mechanics and seek simpler explanations. Kindly share if you learn something out of this !

Here is the link to the VIDEO

Thanks,
Prithivi

I am looking for highly motivated candidates to fill some postdocs positions in computational solid mechanics in Chile.

Please see details here:

http://camlab.cl/2017/07/23/postdoctoral-fellowship-2018/

Best,

Alejandro.

Possibilities for postdoctoral fellowships in Computational Mechanics with Elena Atroshchenko in collaboration within the Legato Team http://legato-team.eu

Please apply here: http://www.conicyt.cl/fondecyt/2016/09/06/concurso-postdoctorado-2018/

If you need information, please contact Elena Atroshchenko eatroshchenko [at] ing.uchile.cl>

Effects of Cu, Mn, Al, Ti, Mo on generalized stacking fault energies, Rice-criterion ductilities, and twinabilities of CoCrFeNi-based face-centered cubic high entropy alloys were investigated using density functional theory calculations. The calculated barrier energies and twinnabilities revealed that the addition of Ti or Mo increased the tendency of dislocation glide and deformation twinning, while addition of Mn, Cu and relatively high amount of Al facilitated dislocation gliding and martensitic transformation. Low amount of Al resulted in only dislocation gliding.

Michele Ciavarella  Yang Xu Robert L. Jackson

Some Closed-Form Results for Adhesive Rough Contacts Near Complete Contact on Loading and Unloading in the Johnson, Kendall, and Roberts Regime

Journal of Tribology Copyright VC 2018 by ASME JANUARY 2018, Vol. 140 / 011402-1

Recently, generalizing the solution of the adhesiveless random rough contact proposed

by Xu, Jackson, and Marghitu (XJM model), the first author has obtained a model for

Phase-field models for crack propagation enable the simulation of complex crack patterns without complex and expensive tracking and remeshing as cracks grow. In the setting without inertia, the crack evolution is obtained from a variational energetic starting point, and leads to an equation for the order parameter coupled to elastostatics. Careful mathematical analysis has shown that this is consistent with the Griffith model for fracture. Recent efforts to include inertia in this formulation have replaced elastostatics by elastodynamics.

A few of you might find this interesting. We indented a disk of aluminum in order to make a specimen with residual stress. The loading was axisymmetric. The aluminum had plastic anisotropy of about 10%. Because of that mild anisotropy, the residual stresses were anisotropic by about 40% and the residual strains were anisotropic by 100%.

The paper is free until July 31 at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1VCA54kE0BEFT

Dear colleagues,

Attached please find our new paper "Fatigue fracture of tough hydrogels" published on Extreme Mechanics Letters.

Fatigue fracture of tough hydrogels

Ruobing Bai, Quansan Yang, Jingda Tang, Xavier P. Morelle, Joost Vlassak, Zhigang Suo