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Congress-Wide Symposium on Additive Manufacturing (Topic 2-2), IMECE-ASME, Pittsburgh, PA, November 9-15^th of 2018. The abstracts (400-650 words) are due Feb 26^th.

https://www.asme.org/events/imece

Towards mechanical characterization of soft digital materials for multimaterial 3D-printing

Submitted by Stephan Rudykh on Mon, 02/05/2018 - 01:52

V. Slesarenko and S. Rudykh, Towards mechanical characterization of soft digital materials for multimaterial 3D-printing. Int. J. Eng. Science, 123, 62–72 (2018)

Faculty post in Composite Aircraft Structures Engineering

Submitted by Michael A. McCarthy on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 21:06

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composite aircraft structures

The University of Limerick in Ireland is seeking applicants for the following position:

Lecturer below the bar in Composite Aircraft Structures Engineering - Specific Purpose Contract

Salary Scale: €38,731 - €53,249 p.a.

Further information for applicants and application material is available online from:

http://www.ul.ie/hrvacancies/

The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday, 16^th February 2018.

PyCAC: The concurrent atomistic-continuum simulation environment

Submitted by Shuozhi Xu on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 19:42

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Multiscale materials modeling

concurrent atomistic-continuum

http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.8

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PhD position in computational solid mechanics

Submitted by A.Tabarraei on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 15:15

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PHD position

Computational Solid Mechanics

A PhD position is available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The research project is in the multiscale modeling of damage and fracture. Candidates should have a strong background and interests in continuum mechanics and finite elements modeling. Programming experience in Fortran or C++ is a big plus. The starting date for this position is August 2018.

On the distribution and scatter of fatigue lives obtained by integration of crack growth curves: does initial crack size distribution matter?

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 10:35

On the distribution and scatter of fatigue lives obtained by integration of crack growth curves: does initial crack size distribution matter?

January 2018
Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Adhesion between a power-law indenter and a thin layer coated on a rigid substrate

Submitted by Antonio Papangelo on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 10:25

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adhesion; contact mechanics; bioinspired adhesion; nanolayers; microlayers

Modeling/defining Loop of blocks of different load amplitude

Submitted by Jaber on Sat, 02/03/2018 - 08:10

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In the experiment setup, the fatigue loading spectrum has a loop of 2 blocks of load amplitude. First load amplitude the higher applied for 2X time period followed by lower load amplitude for X time period then the loop repeated till failure. the load sequence was High-Low and Low-High in this loop. X was in thousands so might be suggested as the cyclic response will be stabilized in the first 10 cycles, the first block will dominate the fatigue behaviour at least till fracture, or damage initiation.

Topology optimization of magnetic source distributions for diamagnetic and superconducting levitation

Submitted by sergkuznet on Fri, 02/02/2018 - 23:30

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Topology optimization is used to obtain a magnetic source distribution providing levitation of a diamagnetic body or type I superconductor with maximized thrust force. We show that this technique identifies non-trivial source distributions and may be useful to design devices based on non-contact magnetic suspension and other magnetic devices, such as micro-magneto-mechanical devices, high field magnets etc.

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