Two fully funded PhD positions for Spring 2017 are available in the area of experimental and computational damage mechanics at North Dakota State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Area 1: microstructure and micromechanics based modeling of fatigue in structural steels; Area 2: multiscale computational tools for damage analysis of pavement materials.
The School of Engineering at Brown University is seeking to fill a faculty position in Mechanics of Solids and Structures at any academic level. Candidates should have expertise and research interests in the mechanics of soft, biological, structural, energy materials or systems that are complementary and synergistic with existing research areas in the School as described below. The successful candidate is expected to make a significant contribution to the School’s research activities and to build a strong, externally funded research program.
Positions of two Ph.D students are now open for Spring and Fall 2017 in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire (UNH).
We are looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated candidates who are experienced in mechanics of materials, bio-inspired engineering and 3D printing.
Hi all,
The Computational Materials & Mechanics Group (CMMG) at the University of Connecticut has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral researcher in the area of modeling of impact behavior of materials at the mesoscales. The work is based on the newly developed quasi-coarse-grained dynamics method that extends the time and length scale capabilities of molecular dynamics simulations to the mesoscales. The postdoctoral researcher will work on the extension of this method to model shock/impact response of complex materials systems.
Dear colleagues,
Please note that the deadline for abstract submission to the 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics has been extended to: September 30, 2016. This extension is final.
Dear iMechanicians,
I would like to inform you about the workshop WCFA2016-VFA, which is this year organized with the focus set on Vibration Fatigue Analysis. The workshop will be held at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic from November 8 to November 10, 2016. The introductory lessons in the first day will be presented by Prof Darrell Socie, Prof Milan Ruzicka and Dr Jan Papuga, while the main topic - Vibration Fatigue Analysis - will follow in next two days and will be covered by Dr Neil Bishop.
One fully-funded PhD position in Structural Integrity for Nuclear Applications is avalable at the University of Bristol with a tax-free stipend of £18,000 per annum. Please see the full advert here for details:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOI473/phd-studentship-structural-integrity-f…
There is an opening for a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Jay Kruzic’s group at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney, Australia. The initial term will be one year, with the potential to extend the appointment for 2-3 years based on performance and availability of funding.
Key duties:
A cantilever beam with elastic hinge pulled antagonistically by two dielectric elastomer (DE) membranes in tension forms a foldable actuator if one DE membrane is subject to a voltage and releases part of tension. Simply placing parallel rigid bars on the prestressed DE membranes results in enhanced actuators working in pure shear state. We report design, analysis, fabrication and experiment of soft mobile robots that are moved by such foldable DE actuators.
