Dear Imechanicians,

The 2016 NAFEMS UK Regional Conference will cover a wide range of topics, addressing every aspect of engineering analysis and simulation during a 2-day program. The 2016 conference will bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies in an open forum. Covering all aspects of the technology including FEA, CFD & MBS, the event will focus heavily on best-practice, use cases, state of the art, problem areas, developing fields and much more.

Simpleware at NAFEMS UK Conference 2016

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for oral presentations to Symposium D-5 on “Mechanics and Design of Mechanical Metamaterials” at the 53rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES 2016), hosted by the University of Maryland College Park during 2-5 October 2016.

Pr. Remacle has recently received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. The aim of the research is to work

on hexahedral mesh generation, including parallel meshing, boundary layer meshing and GPU-based meshing. Three (or more) open positions

for a Ph.D. mandate are open. Candidates should directly contact Jean-François Remacle (jean-francois.remacle [at] uclouvain.be).

Employment as an assistant researcher (Post-doc) at the project OPUS from National Centre of Science.

Details: http://www.perlikowski.kdm.p.lodz.pl/project.html

Two-Dimensional (2D) materials have been widely studied since the discovery of graphene in 2004.  Many of the initial works on the various 2D materials (graphene, MoS₂ and other transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, and others like the monochalcogenides) by mechanicians focused on issues like ideal strength, and appropriate methods to calculate the bending modulus.  Some of these, and other issues, were reviewed by Sulin Zhang in a J-Club from March 2015 (http://imechanica.org/node/17999).  That was a nic

The Sustainable Infrastructure, Geotechnics, and Materials (SIGMa) Lab at Howard University, Washington, DC invites applicants for two PhD and one Master’s positions in geotechnical and materials engineering for Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. Highly-motivated, industrious individuals with strong computational and/or experimental skills, journal/conference publications, excellent English proficiency, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team are strongly encouraged to apply.

Last few places remaining! 

Strain gradient plasticity modeling of hydrogen diffusion to the crack tip

E. Martínez-Pañeda, S. del Busto, C.F. Niordson, C. Betegón

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319915315913

We are offering a PhD position to start this coming september at technion, Haifa, Israel, as advertised in the attached file.

To qualify, the candidates should hold an M.Sc. with thesis in mechanical/materials engineering and have passed the GRE with a grade of 85% or more.

The research will be experimental and numerical in character.