Dear Mechanicians, dear colleagues, dear authors and readers of scientific publications,

We are very happy to inform you that the first overlay journal in mechanics, which was launched in August 2020, has just published its first paper.

Doitrand, A., Henry, R. & Meille, S. Brittle material strength and fracture toughness estimation from four-point bending test, Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics, Mar 2021. DOI: 10.46298/jtcam.6753. It is attached below.

Context

As part of a Europeanproject between different industrial partners and Universities, the main objective of the doctoral position will be to develop methodologies in thecontext of data-driven stochastic multi-scale simulations.

PhD opportunity

The doctoral project will be supervised by Prof. L. Noels of ULg (http://www.ltas-cm3.ulg.ac.be/), in close collaboration with the partners of the project. The position is that of a research engineer starting in Fall2021.

Dr. Xiaoyu Tang’s group in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University has multiple fully funded Ph.D. positions in the area of Fluid Mechanics and Soft Matter. Research in the group focuses on multiphase flow, microfluidics, and active colloidal systems, using both experimental and numerical techniques. Selected candidates are expected to start in Fall 2021. Visiting students/scholars are always welcome.

Qualification

STORM-BOTS is a new european training network (ITN) dedicated to liquid crystalline elastomers and soft robotics.

We are seeking to fill 13 early stage researcher (ESR) positions across Europe, including openings for chemists, fabricators, roboticists and theorists. The ESRs will collaborate on the design and creation of liquid crystal elastomers devices, and will benefit from training and secondment opportunities coordinated by the network.  Twelve of the positions include enrolment in a PhD program, while one is primarily based in a company.

Dr John Biggins (supervisor) and Prof Mark Warner FRS (co-supervisor) are searching for a talented theorist with interests in mechanics and geometry to work on the design of soft liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) machines. The studentship is part of a new Marie Sklodowska-Curie training network called storm-bots, which will encompass 13 students across Europe working on the design and creation soft LCE machines. The soft, anisotropic materials of the project, liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and glasses, contract along their director on heating/illumination.

Morphology instability of substrate-supported carbon atomic layers can be harnessed to modulate physical properties and functions, which has drawn interesting attention. Curvature would be a critical factor affecting surface morphology and its stability characteristics. Infilled carbon nanotubes, that is to say carbon monolayers with curved geometry and infilled substrates, namely nanosleeves, widely exist in the literature and have many potential applications.

Thanks to Mechanics of Materials,  here is a different way to look at viscoelasticity and Hooke's law.

Link:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167663621000922

Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate (RA) in a project sponsored by the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) entitled “3D elastodynamic fracture simulations” supervised by Prof. Ranjith Kunnath. NSM is a joint initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY). 

Eligibility:

Ph.D. in Engineering/Mathematics/Physics with background in the area of Applied Mechanics and/or High Performance Computing

The Multiscale Materials Modelling Team in WMG (University of Warwick), led by Dr Figiel, is currently seeking a Research Fellow to carry out research in the area of Computational Micromechanics of Solid-state Batteries. This post is part of a large consortium SOLBAT (https://www.solbat-faraday.org/), focussed on developing next-generation solid-state batteries, which has been led by the University of Oxford, and funded by the Faraday Institution (https://faraday.ac.uk/).