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Wide Width Tensile Testing

Submitted by Deniz Yalcin on
industry
tensile test
Geotextiles
ASTM

Tensile testing is among the most standard tests performed by universal testing machines yet depending on how the test specimen is used in its native environment, setting up the tensile test method is not always straightforward. Wide width tensile testing is a type of tensile testing procedure used with specimens that are prepared with wider width than the standard tensile specimen coupons. This blog posts covers wide width tensile testing, standards outlining wide width testing methods, and the necessary equipment.

Post Doctoral Position in Composites for Solar Energy

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job

The University of Tulsa Department of Mechanical Engineering is searching for a postdoctoral researcher to support our recently awarded a U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology project to develop novel a CSP Collector system https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/seto-fy2018-concentrating-solar-therm… TU and collaborators will develop a new carbon-based receiver system with a bio-inspired microvascular architecture.

Postdoctoral positions in the area of 3D printing at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Submitted by Kun Zhou on

Enthusiastic and highly motivated postdoctoral scientists are sought to work with Dr. Kun Zhou at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore on the following areas:

1. Metal printing and process modeling (DED or SLM printing)

2. Polymer printing (polymer synthesis, modification and MJF/SLS printing)

Open PhD position in multi-resolution fatigue modeling at the University of Tennessee

Submitted by Timothy Truster on
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polycrystal plasticity
Fatigue

We have an open PhD position starting in the Spring or Fall semester 2020 at the Computational Laboratory for the Mechanics of Interfaces at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville. A high quality PhD student is sought to study failure of structural materials under fatigue by developing a novel computational approach that explicitly targets traction equilibrium and displacement compatibility along the grain boundaries.

Modeling the Locomotion of Soft Robots using Discrete Elastic Rods

Submitted by oliver oreilly on
soft robots

Dear Colleague,

I write to bring your attention to a recent paper describing the use of a planar version of Bergou et al.'s discrete elastic rod theory to model and simulate a prototype caterpillar-inspired soft robot. The paper just appeared in Soft Robotics:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/soro.2018.0104

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