Abhishek Arora, Rajat Arora, Amit Acharya

Structural Integrity and MEchanical Design (SIMED) group is seeking a 1-year full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in Machine Learning applied to fracture mechanics. The successful applicant will work at the Polytechnic Engineering and Architecture Department (DPIA) of the University of Udine, under Dr Enrico Salvati’s supervision.

The project focuses, but not limited to, on feasibility study and application of Machine Learning methods to applied and numerical fatigue fracture mechanics problems.

We have an opening for a full-funded Ph.D. student, starting from Fall 2022. Our group in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is working on a range of problems, involving mechanics and physics of 2D materials, soft materials, and biological systems.

Senior Application Engineering Position at ANSYS, North America-East

The job entails providing advanced solution development and technical guidance on Computational Structural Mechanics with a focus on composite materials and structure and development of custom applications to clients in industry and academia.

I have a fully funded postdoc position with some flexibility for the starting date (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023) at Columbia University for a project on deep learning for dynamic responses of solids. More information can be at our research group website www.poromechanics.org. Candidates with a subset or all of the following skills will be considered:

1. programming skills (python and C++)

2. computational mechanics

3. micropolar and micromorphic theories

3. graph theory

After the first two successful editions in 2015 and 2019, with the
enthusiastic participation of students and young researchers from all over the world, the third
edition of the international Summer School on Fatigue and Damage Mechanics of Composites
will be held in Vicenza (Italy) from the 4th to the 8th of July 2022. The venue is the Department
of Management and Engineering, campus of the University of Padova in Vicenza. The School has
already received the patronage of ESCM (the European Society for Composite Materials), AIAS
(the Italian Society for Mechanical Design), Assocompositi (the Italian Association of Composite
Industries) and IGF (the Italian Group of Fracture).
The School aims at providing young scientists and engineers both from Academia and Industry
with the unique opportunity to meet and learn from leading international experts about
advances in the fatigue and damage mechanics of polymer-based composite materials.
Based on the experience and the feedback received after the first editions, the format will be
improved with more tailored theoretical sections, hands-on activities and the presentation of
industrial application cases provided by experts of leading worldwide companies. Particular
attention will be always devoted to the understanding of damage mechanisms and the paths to
incorporate them into predictive models.
During the five-day program, senior researchers and industry representatives will provide
lectures on experimental techniques for damage investigations, damage evolution under
fatigue, analytical and numerical damage modelling, structural health monitoring and examples
of design against damage in advanced industrial applications.

For more information visit the web site: www.gest.unipd.it/damageschool2022

Applications are invited for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in the area of advanced characterization of energy materials. This position is a full-time position at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the selected applicant can start effective immediately.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0080849

Abstract

A highly stretched hyperelastic shell exhibits a coupling behavior of local wrinkling and global bending within the stability boundary, and curvature resists and can even suppress surface wrinkles beyond a critical threshold. Here, we report a novel phenomenon that smooth surface maintains upon stretching a soft shell, while wrinkles emerge upon unloading, which implies a nonlinear interplay between curvature and Mullins (stress softening and residual strain) effects in the entire loading-unloading cycle.

We have analyzed the so-called Resonant Frequency Analysis, a method used to assess the stability of dental implants. In spite of its widespread use, there is only a handful of engineering analyses that define the limits of applicability and the sensitivity of the method. So, here is another example of what I call "Denta; Engineering".