The General Motors/Brown University Collaborative Research Laboratory for Computational Materials Research has an opening for a postdoctoral research associate to work on computational modeling of fracture in lightweight metals. You can find more information about the position, the lab, and an application form at https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Engineering/Labs/GM_CRL/positions.html.

Two funded PhD positions available at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (www.hw.ac.uk). Details below and can be found on www.findaphd.com. Both positions are funded for 3 or 3.5 years, jointly supervised by the Tissue Mechanics Group (https://tissuemech.hw.ac.uk/) and Applied Optics and Photonics Group (https://www.aop.hw.ac.uk/) with clinical and industrial advisors.

An exciting PhD position exists at the University of Warwick (https://warwick.ac.uk/) within a collaborative multiscale materials modelling PhD project on chemo-mechanical modelling of energy materials.  

HetSys is a recently established EPSRC-supported Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) which trains people to challenge current state-of-the-art in computational modelling of heterogeneous, real-world systems across a range of research themes which this year include nanoscale devices, superalloys, laser-plasma interactions etc and future medicines.

4 fully-funded PhDs are available in Delft University of Technology under the joint supervision of researchers from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. We will explore the exciting interdisciplinary areas of Quantum Computing and M

On behalf of Texas A&M University & Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, we are excited to announce the 2022 Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science that will be held on our campus in College Station, Texas, from October 16-19, 2022.

Specimen alignment plays a critical role in material testing. If a specimen is not properly aligned prior to or during testing, the accuracy and the reliability of test results will be directly affected, and, depending on the method followed, results may not be acceptable. This post covers the effect of specimen misalignment on the test data, main reasons behind axial misalignment, and ways to improve alignment precision in mechanical test setups.

Our latest article in the Journal of Applied Physics is freely available for 14 days: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0072249

 We conducted molecular dynamics simulations of plate impact tests of polyethylene to obtain molecular-level insights on two common approximations associated with the interpretation of shock pressure and spall strength. Our results revealed

(1) The free surface approximation can slightly underpredict the shock pressure in the polymer.