We are looking for a PhD researcher to work at numerical simulations of the electro-mechanical response of nano-reinforced polymers. The position is fully funded including tuition fees and a competitive maintenance/salary (of approximately 3k euros/month), as well as additional benefits for those with a family. The researcher will work towards a PhD in Mechanics of Composites at Imperial College London, Department of Aeronautics, under the supervision of Dr V.L. Tagarielli and Dr S.T. Pinho and in collaboration with several research groups in London and across Europe.

Applications are sought for four Post-Doctoral Research Associates to join a very active research group at Cardiff University, UK (School of Engineering) and the University of California, San Diego, USA (Structural Engineering Department).  Three postdocs will be based at Cardiff and one at UC San Diego, and there will be frequent interactions and travels between. The research will formulate and develop numerical methods for mulitiscale and multiphysics design optimisation using level set topology optimization.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the area of bioMEMS. The candidate will interact closely with personnel at the start-up company iNfinitesimal, LLC and collaborators at Northwestern’s Feinberg Medical School.  The position will involve research at the intersection of engineering and biology with an emphasis in device design, fabrication, and system integration toward the development of nano- and micro-technologies for biological applications.

Requirements:

The Laboratory of Ocular Biomechanics at the University of Pittsburgh is seeking candidates for a postdoctoral fellow position on multi-scale biomechanics of soft tissues. The project goal is to understand aging and vision. To apply, send TWO representative publications and CV to Ian Sigal, PhD (ian [at] ocularbiomechanics.com). More details about the Laboratory of Ocular Biomechanics at www.OcularBiomechanics.org. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so early submission is encouraged.

We use Hodge-type orthogonal decompositions for studying the compatibility equations of the displacement gradient and the linear strain with prescribed boundary displacements. We show that the displacement gradient is compatible if and only if for any equilibrated virtual first-Piola Kirchhoff stress tensor field, the virtual work done by the displacement gradient is equal to the virtual work done by the prescribed boundary displacements. This condition is very similar to the classical compatibility equations for the linear strain.

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to participate in the minisymposium “Nonlocal Theories and Multiscale Methods for Complex Material Behavior” that we are organizing at the 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) to be held on July 24-29, 2016 in Seoul, Korea, jointly with the 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI).

Guangming Cheng, Chunyang Miao, Qingquan Qin, Jing Li, Feng Xu, Hamed Haftbaradaran, Elizabeth C. Dickey, Huajian Gao & Yong Zhu Nature Nanotechnology 10, 687–691 (2015) doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.135

The Laboratory for Bone Biomechanics of Prof. Ralph Müller, Department of Health Science & Technology, Institute for Biomechanics at ETH Zurich is offering a 

PhD Position in Computational Multiscale Modelling of Bone Fracture Healing Mechanobiology

Dear everyone!

Welcome to theme articles on recent progress in mechanics and thermophysics research in fuel cells and batteries published in the SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn.

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Theme Articles on Recent Progress in Mechanics and Thermophysics Research in Fuel Cells and Batteries 

Guest editors: F. Ciucci and T. S. Zhao 

There is an open position for a doctoral student at the Institiute of
Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics (ILSB) of TU Wien (Vienna
University of Technology), Vienna, Austria.
We are looking for a part time teaching/research assistant (full time possible)
in the Computational Biomechanics Group for the next four years. The official job offer is announced at:

https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/mbl/main/mbl?n=1615 Section 193.4.1