Liu, M., Domino, L., de Dinechin, I. D., Taffetani, M., & Vella, D.* (2023). Snap-induced morphing: From a single bistable shell to the origin of shape bifurcation in interacting shells. J Mech. Phys. Solids, 170, 105116.
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NJIT will be hosting a special webinar by Professor Vikram Deshpande, on November 9th, 1-2:30 pm (EST). Please see the attached flyer for more information about the webinar. The Webex link to the meeting is below. All are welcome to join.
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Binghamton University, the State University of New York, invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level beginning in Fall 2023.
The department is particularly interested in candidates whose research intersects with the fields of Solid Mechanics and Materials, including but not limited to Soft/Bio Materials, Meta/Electronics Materials, Materials under Extreme Environments, Mechanical Design, and Advanced Manufacturing.
In this paper we formulate the initial-boundary value problem of accreting circular cylindrical bars under finite torsion. It is assumed that the bar grows as a result of printing stress-free cylindrical layers on its boundary while it is under a time-dependent torque (or a time-dependent twist) and is free to deform axially. In a deforming body, accretion induces eigenetrains, and consequently residual stresses. We formulate the anelasticity problem by first constructing the natural Riemannian metric of the growing bar.
I have an opening for a research fellow for two years from Jan 2023 to Dec 2024. The candidate should have the experience of perfroming multi-physics simulations using comsol for the design of a referator system incorporating LED lightings for the storage of vegetables. The candidate will also need to interact with commercial vendor for the fabrication and installation of the final product. The candidate should have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering or equivalence with the relevant experience in thermo/fluid mechanics.
Yijie Cai, Jie Ma, Zihang Shen, Xianmin Shao, Zheng Jia *, Shaoxing Qu, Enhancing the fracture resistance of hydrogels by regulating the energy release rate via bilayer designs: Theory and experiments, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 170, 105125 (2023)
Multiscale mechanics and extreme materials lab (https://z.umn.edu/ravi-research-lab) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has two fully funded Ph.D. positions starting in fall 2023. Interested candidates may reach out to sravi [at] umn.edu (sravi[at]umn[dot]edu). The research will be on two main topics
Postdoctoral positions on mechanical metamaterials and/or biomechanics are available at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The project on mechanical metamaterials is in collaboration with Prof. Xiaoming Mao at University of Michigan funded by Office of Naval Research (MURI).
