A joint Ph.D position between two Labs of the Univ lyon: Laboratoire de Mécanique des Contacts et des Structures (LaMCoS UMR CNRS 5259) and Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS UMR CNRS 5513) is available.
The subject is financed by the Laboratory of Excellence, namely Labex CeLyA (Centre Lyonnais d’Acoustique), and its duration will be three years. Please see the attached for more details.

(1) Bonding by elastic adhesive contact: This community here is perhaps more familiar with bonding elastic solids by adhesive contact, such as gecko adhesion, or more generally rough surface adhesion. But what about bonding two pieces of metals? 

https://www.iit.it/careers/openings/opening/1151-1-post-doc-position-fo…

To be started soon. Contact me for further information at michele.scaraggi [at] iit.it 

Best regards 

M

I'm recruiting Ph.D. students (fully funded) to join my research group at Utah State University and work on data-driven multiscale modeling of functional materials. The positions can be started from Fall 2020 or Spring 2021.

Dear iMechanica,

We are very excited to share the news that our recent work on bioinspired materials with self‐adaptable mechanical properties is published in Advanced Materials.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201906970

The work was done in collaboration with Prof. Kang from Johns Hopkins University

C. Cissé and M. Asle Zaeem. A phase-field model for non-isothermal phase transformation and plasticity in polycrystalline yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia.  Acta Materialia 191 (2020) 111-123. 

Daniel Suo sent me a graph of my academic tree, which he generated on the basis of the information on Mathematics Genealogy Project, using a code.

Online symposium organized by the Young Academy of Europe on models and simulation for Covid-19 epidemic, including data analysis, on April 22 from 4 to 6 pm (CEST).

Free attendance upon registration. 

See the link below for more info about speakers, abstracts, timetable and registration:

https://meetings.yacadeuro.org/event/2/

150 people have already made the registration 

We have published two papers on Ecoflex, a popular silicone polymer in recent days. The polymer is largely temperature- and strain rate-insensitive. It comes up with several Shore Hardnesses. We characterize five Shores and develop a novel Shore-dependent modelling framework

Mechanics of Materials >> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016766362030020X

One PhD position is available at Civil Engineering Department of University of Nebraska Lincoln. The research is in the field of mechaincs and/or material science. The candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Congrui Jin. If you are interested, please send your CV to cjin [at] binghamton.edu (cjin5[at]unl[dot]edu)