Context

As part of a collaborative FET-Open H2020 project between different universities and a SME, there exist open PhD positions is the context of

• Developments of homogenisation methods and

• Surrogate models (e.g. machine learning etc.)

Opportunity

 Two PhD positions at IMDEA (Spain) and ULiège (Belgium) are opened and consist in renewable periods of 12 months for a total duration of up to 42 months. Co-supervisions between the different partners are scheduled.

 Profile

We present a singularity free formulation and its efficient numerical implementation for the spatial deformation of Kirchhoff rods having uniformly distributed electrostatic charge. Due to the presence of continuously distributed charge, the governing equations of the Kirchhoff rod become a system of integro-differential equations which is singular at every arc-length. We show that this singularity is of removable type which, ones removed, makes the system well defined everywhere. No cutoff length or mollifier is used to remove this singularity.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at IISc Bangalore wlecomes applications for prestigious Raman post doctoral fellowships. Interested applicants working in structural/computational/experimental mechanics can write to:

rram at iisc dot ac dot in

with a CV and a research statement before May 15th, 2020.

Dear iMechanicians,

I hope the present work on two-scale modelling of hydrogen permeation is of interest to you. A post-print is available at www.empaneda.com

A. Díaz, I. I. Cuesta, E. Martinez-Pañeda, J. M. Alegre
Analysis of hydrogen permeation tests considering two different modelling approaches for grain boundary trapping in iron
International Journal of Fracture 223, 17-35 (2020)

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

With a few motivated colleagues, since two years we have been working on the creation of a new journal in mechanics. Our main motivation was to create a journal, which would be completely free for authors and readers, a high quality journal free of any commercial interest. And the work on the journal is almost completed, its title is

Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics (JTCAM)

Join us for this webinar on Wednesday, May 20th, where we'll be looking at methods for identifying part defacts using Simpleware software.

We'll look at an example of working with a machined simple hole plate (usually used for CT calibration) to focus on tools useful for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and the production of manufactured parts. We will show automated tools for segmentation and correction, as well as surface deviation, shape fitting and measurement tools. 

Learn more about how to take part in this webinar.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.104017

Abstract

AIAA Materials Technical Committee will present an AIAA online short course on Multiscale Structural Mechanics starting on August 5th, 2020. More details can be found at  http://aiaa.mycrowdwisdom.com/diweb/catalog/item?id=5196778

The full paper can be found at:

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1b2plc7qwXwm0

Abstract:

Geometric incompatibilities are ubiquitous in natural structures and are recently being exploited in synthetic

structures to enhance the performance of soft systems. In this work we focus on infinitely long bi-layer

neo-Hookean tubes with radial incompatibilities, i.e. the outer radius of the inner tube is different than the inner