On behalf of the Organisers, I wish to post the following message:
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce
Nonconvexity, Nonlocality and Incompatibility: From Materials to Biology
Conference in honor of Lev Truskinovsky's 60th birthday
Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
May 5-7, 2017
Conference Website: http://www.math.pitt.edu/%7Eannav/NNI17/NNIconference.html
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Postdoctoral Fellow Position: Computational simulations of brittle failure
A postdoctoral position is available at The Johns Hopkins University. The position is in the area of damage-based constitutive modeling and computational simulations of brittle failure. This postdoc position is in Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (hemi.jhu.edu). The potential candidate should have a Ph.D. in engineering or a science discipline.
We would be hard-pressed to find an area of research that permeates so deeply in nearly all branches of physical sciences and mathematics as does the topic of homogenization [1].
Multiple faculty positions are available in School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian，China.
A PhD position is open for summer or fall 2017 in Advanced Hierarchical Materials by Design Lab at Louisiana Tech University on multiscale modeling of materials for energy applications with emphasis on ferroic materials. The candidates must have earned a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering or related fields and have a solid background in theoretical and computational mechanics, specifically continuum mechanics and finite element modeling, and need to be familiar with a programming language (preferably C/C++).
Further information: http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/study-here/postgraduate/studentships/research-s…
Elastomeric seals are essential to two great technological advances in oilfields: horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. This paper describes a method to study elastomeric seals by using the pressure-extrusion curve (i.e., the relation between the drop of pressure across a seal and the volume of extrusion of the elastomer). Emphasis is placed on a common mode of failure found in oilfields: leak caused by a crack across the length of a long seal. We obtain an analytical solution of large elastic deformation, which is analogous to the Poiseuille flow of vi
