The Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department at Northeastern University is seeking outstanding individuals to fill two non-tenure-track teaching faculty positions (i.e. Academic Specialists). One position is in the area of mechanics and/or mechatronics whereas the other is in industrial engineering.
As one of the most renewable resources on Earth, bamboo has recently attracted increasing interest for its promising applications in sustainable structural purposes. Its superior mechanical properties arising from the unique functionally-graded (FG) hierarchical structure also make bamboo an excellent candidate for bio-mimicking purposes in advanced material design. However, despite its well-documented, impressive mechanical characteristics, the intriguing asymmetry in flexural behavior of bamboo, alongside its underlying mechanisms, has not yet been fully understood.
Liu, M., & Chen, C. (2015). A micromechanical analysis of the fracture properties of saturated porous media. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 63, 32-38.
Journal: PNAS, published ahead of print, March 9 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1418491112
Title: Endocytic proteins drive vesicle growth via instability in high membrane tension environment
Authors: Nikhil Walani, Jennifer Torres, and Ashutosh Agrawal
This paper demonstrates a new type of interconnects to fulfill the primary function of axons: transmitting electrical signals over long distances and at high speeds. The interconnect, which we call "ionic cable", uses ions to transmit signals, and is built entirely with soft, elastic materials-elastomers and gels. The ionic cable is highly transparent, and remains functioning after being stretched nearly eight times its original length. We describe the design, theory and experiment of the ionic cable.
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A 15 months post Doctoral position is avalaible on mechanical and numerical modeling fields. This is a join project between Univ. Paris 7 & Paris 13.
The present postdoc subject is focussed on situations in which a wetting or dewetting front is interacting with a soft, more or less deformable material.
More details in the enclosed pdf description file.
Our Group of High Performance Materials in Enviormental & Civil Engineering Department at Michigan State University has an openings for PhD positions to work on Multiscale Modeling of Soft Materials starting sSummer or Fall 2015.
In situ atomic-scale observation of twinning-dominated deformation in nanoscale body-centred cubic tungsten
By Jiangwei Wang, Zhi Zeng, Christopher R. Weinberger, Ze Zhang, Ting Zhu & Scott X. Mao
Nature Materials (2015) doi:10.1038/nmat4228
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4228.html
