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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multiscale Modeling of Dynamic Failure

Submitted by Justin W. Wilkerson on

A postdoctoral research fellow is sought to join the Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Phenomena (neplab.net) under the direction of Prof. Justin W. Wilkerson at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).

PhD scholarship: Predicting delamination damage in the machining of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composites

Submitted by jlcurie on

Start Date: 1st September 2016

Duration: 4 years

Stipend: Tax free stipend of £18,000 per year, plus all tuition fees paid at UK/EU rates. 

Supervisors: Dr Jose Curiel-Sosa (Dept of Mechanical Engineering), Dr Kevin Kerrigan and Dr Vaibhav Phadnis (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre).

Applications deadline: 7th December 2015.

Minisymposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis of Thin Films and Multilayer Structures at WCCM 2016, Seoul, Korea

Submitted by Zheng Jia on

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI) will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, during 24 – 29 July, 2016. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a mini-symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis of Thin Films and Multilayer Structures (MS962) which will touch on recent advances in modeling and analysis of thin films and multilayer structures.

 

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to)

Michael McAlpine and Xuanhe Zhao to receive Extreme Mechancis Letters Award

Submitted by katia bertoldi on

Michael McAlpine (University of Minnesota) and  Xuanhe Zhao (MIT) will receive the 2015 EML Young Investigator Award  honoring the best paper published in Extreme Mechanics Letters by a young scientist in 2014 or 2015. Michael is being recognized for his paper, "Pyro-paraelectricity,” which was published in the March 2015 issue of the journal. Xuanhe is awarded for the paper, "Predicting Fracture Energies and Crack-Tip Fields of Soft Tough Materials,” which was published in the September 2015 issue of the journal.