The work involves working independently and collaboratively on "Investigating the fatigue life of different grades of polyethylene". The Phd student will be conducting heavy experimental work to fully characterize the fatigue property of Polyethylene. The modeling part is the second part of this work; which involves developing criterion and cumulative damage laws to predict the fatigue life of polyethylene under multiaxial loadings.
The section for Mixed Conductors, Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, is seeking a candidate for a PhD student position as part of the project “Synfuel: Sustainable synthetic fuels from biomass gasification and electrolysis”.
There is an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research associate position in the Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine (CeMSIM) at RPI, Troy NY to work on problems involving novel iterative algorithms for nonlinear problems in solid mechanics using nonconventional discretization schemes. Encouraged to apply are creative, self-motivated candidates with a sound background in computational mechanics.
Qualifications:
1. PhD in Computational/Applied Mechanics or related topic.
Dear colleagues,
on behalf of the course organizer, I would like to bring to your attention to the advanced course on Modeling of localized inelastic deformation that will be taught by Milan Jirasek in Prague, Czech Republic on 7-11 September 2015. More detailed information on the course is posted at http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2015.html. We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague!
If you are strongly motivated to work with a very active group in Solid Mechanics,
we have a PostDoc position (18 months) available from June 2015.
Deadline for application is June 15, 2015, 12.00 pm (Italian time).
The position is addressed to numerical/theoretical modelling of cellular materials obtained via 3D printing.
For details about the application see the attachment.
DEPARTMENT: Department of Energy
AGENCY: National Energy Technology Laboratory
LEVEL: Post-Doctoral
POSITION INFORMATION: Temporary, 12 months full-time with the possibility of extension
DUTY LOCATION: Albany, Oregon
WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED: United States Citizens, LPRs, and Foreign Nationals with appropriate approval
Two postdoctoral fellow positions in solid mechanics/biomechanics at Dartmouth are available from July 2015.
The subjects of research include, but are not limited to, mechanics of morphogenesis in embryos and plants, fast motion of plants (e.g., the Venus flytrap's rapid closure), mechanical self-assembly and instability of thin structures (e.g., DNA, origami structures, plant tendrils, self-assembly of nanostructures, etc.), and bioinspired structures.
We are pleased to announce a 4-day CECAM/Psi-k Workshop on
"Chemical and structural transformations in materials under mechanical load",
that will take place at the EPFL campus in Lausanne from Tuesday 1st September to Friday 4th September 2015.
The focus of the workshop will be on materials’ structural and chemical transformations that are caused by external loads and in turn determine the materials macroscopic mechanical response. Particular attention will be devoted to the following thematic areas:
This is just a reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the ICMOBT Conference is now only a month away.
Submit your abstract NOW! http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/submit-abstract.asp
Oral and poster abstracts are invited on the following topics and should be submitted using the online abstract submission system by 26 June 2015. For a more detailed list of topics, please check the conference website.
1. Biological Materials
2. Biomaterials
3. Bioinspired Materials
The rapid and efficient development of soft active materials requires readily available, compact testing equipment. We propose a desktop-sized, cost-efficient, and open source radial stretching system as an alternative to commercially available biaxial and uniaxial stretching devices. It allows for doubling the diameter of an elastomer membrane while measuring the applied force. Our development enables significant cost reduction (<300 €) and increase the availability of equibiaxial deformation measurements for scientific material analysis.
