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Postdoc opening in cardiac biomechanics modeling at UCLA

Submitted by Lihua Jin on

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our research team in the field of cardiac biomechanics and heart failure with a position at the level of Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.  They will be working with a multidisciplinary team mentored by Dr. Lihua Jin (Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), Dr. Ashley Stein-Merlob (Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine) and Dr.

5 Zoom Meetings for those interested to join FABER Action

Submitted by pragtic on

FABER networking project is funded for next four years by the COST Association. Its goal is to solve the current deadlock in validating the metal fatigue life evaluation methods and solvers by establishing benchmark sets of curated experimental fatigue data, with the focus set on the high-cycle fatigue category above all.

 

Postdoctoral Research in Impact and Ballistic Behaviour of Graphene Reinforced Nanocomposites

Submitted by gaurp on

Dear I Mechanica Members,

I am Dr. Piyush Gaur, currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. With over nine years of interdisciplinary research experience in the realms of experimental and computational biomechanics, I am deeply involved in the study and development of advanced nanocomposite materials for aerospace and defense applications.

Three fully-funded PhD positions @ KU Leuven, Belgium

Submitted by Reza Talemi on

We have three fully-funded PhD positions specializing in the fracture assessment of metallic materials at Department of Materials Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium. These positions offer an excellent opportunity for those interested in advancing their academic career in this cutting-edge field. If you are passionate about pursuing a PhD in this area, we encourage you to apply by submitting your CV and a detailed motivation letter to the email address provided below.

Submit your abstract to IMECE 2024: presentation only & poster deadline 7/16/2024

Submitted by Ruobing Bai on

Dear Colleagues,

 

The deadline for presentation only & poster abstracts for ASME IMECE 2024 is 7/16/2024.

 

You are kindly reminded to please consider submitting abstracts to the two symposiums hosted by the Mechanics of Soft Materials Technical Committee this year: Mechanics of Soft Materials (Topic 12-29) and Advances in Soft Material Modeling (Topic 12-30). Abstracts can be submitted following this link: https://imece.secure-platform.com/a/

 

On productivity, big multicenter grants, and paper-mills: the pursuit of an academic career leads to scientific progress?.

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

 

We are in the time where big multi-centre projects with an ever-increasing number of scientists involved seem to multiply, and single scientist projects seem to die, apart from the happy island of ERC funding in Europe (probably NSF career funding in US?). I believe that with ERC funding and the direct call of ERC winners some European universities have taken a path of excellence to follow, while on multicentre big money projects they are less effective.

Thermal computing with mechanical transistors

Submitted by Joshua on

We have developed a mechanical transistor that synergizes a Kirigami thermomechanical sensor and a bistable actuator, enabling in-memory computing for combinational and sequential logic.

Our mechanical computing device stands out by employing modular construction, symmetry breaking, nonlinear materials, crafting logic gates and memory units responding to environmental stimuli through thermal delay.

 

Online - Advanced Functional Materials 

First Announcement - International Workshop on Simulation Science, May 2025, Clausthal

Submitted by gunkelma on

Dear Colleague,

I am very pleased to announce the third interdisciplinary international conference about Simulation Science from 7th to 9th May 2025 in Clausthal (Germany).

Attached please find the Call for Papers.

The workshop considers the broad area of modeling, simulation and AI with a focus on simulation of materials, simulations of socio-technical systems and simulation and optimization in networks.

Confirmed plenary speakers are:

Ferroelastic switching in yttria stabilized zirconia: A molecular dynamics study

Submitted by mohsenzaeem on

I am happy to share our newest open access article which is published in Computational Materials Science. For the first time, we were able to create the t’ phase of yttria stabilized zirconia from its cubic phase through the process of rapid quenching by utilizing molecular dynamics simulations. The simulation of quenching process followed the experimental procedure, and the results of virtual XRD and RDF were comparable to the actual experiments, verifying the created phases.