Ph.D. Student Positions in Computational Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials

Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory (CMRL)

Director: Dr. Somnath Ghosh

Michael G. Callas Chair Professor

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland

Post-Doctoral Researcher Position in Computational Mechanics of Materials

Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory (CMRL)

Director: Dr. Somnath Ghosh

Michael G. Callas Chair Professor

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland

A Post Doc position is available immediately at the University of Central Florida, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department with the focus on metallic nanocomposites. The position is currently designated for two years with annual salary of $50,000+. Interested parties please email resumes and references to Prof Quanfang Chen at qchen [at] ucf.edu.  

If you missed the abstract submission deadline for the 7th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues (ICMOBT), we are pleased to announce that it is extended to Friday, 30 June 2017.

Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen is actively looking for dynamics engineers/experts. Huawei technologies are a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world with its products and services deployed in more than 140 countries and it currently serving 45 of the world's 50 largest telecoms operators. It is also one of the largest mobile phone manufacturers in the world. The requirement is as follows:-

Dear Fracture mechanician,

In my group we published 2 articles with novelties on the phase field model for brittle fracture:

I hope some of you find this work interesting, the code with the cohesive zone model for fatigue can be downloaded as a user element (UEL) subroutine for Abaqus from empaneda.com/codes

A cohesive zone framework for environmentally assisted fatigue

Susana del Busto, Covadonga Betegón, Emilio Martínez Pañeda

Engineering Fracture Mechanics (2017)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001379441730098X

Polymers are commonly foamed in the solid phase by the expansion of a dissolved gas such as CO2.  The foaming process is sensitive to the constitutive properties of the polymer, and the final porosity is dictated by bursting of the cell walls.  There is a need to model the solid foaming process for a range of polymers in order to determine the sensitivity of foaming to the properties of the polymer and to the process variables (such as thermal history and CO2 content). The foam expansion response is sensitive to the constitutive properties of the polymer.

The 2016 impact factor for Journal of Applied Mechanics has increased to 2.133.  This increase is mainly due to the rapid review process, which has led to significant increase of submissions (and significant decrease of the acceptance rate).  The average time for the first round of review is < 10 days, and that for the second round of review (if necessary), including both the authors' revision time and reviewers' re-review time, is < 3 weeks.  

The enthalpic response of amorphous polymers depends strongly on their thermal and deformation history. Annealing just below the glass transition temperature (Tg) causes a large endothermic overshoot of the isobaric heat capacity at Tg as measured by differential scanning calorimetry, while plastic deformation (cold work) can erase this overshoot and create an exothermic undershoot. This indicates that a strong coupling exists between the polymer structure, thermal response and mechanical deformation.