Postdoctoral Fellow Positions - University of Notre Dame
Postdoctoral Fellow Positions: Interdisciplinary Projects between University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania and Argonne National Laboratory
2015 Nanobruecken Nanomechanical Testing Workshop
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Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and Hysitron, Inc. are pleased to present Nanobrücken 2015: A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop & Hysitron User Meeting, which will take place on April 21-23, 2015 in Potsdam, Germany. Nanobrücken 2015 is the fifth edition of the now-annual Nanobrücken workshop series, having been hosted in both Saarbrücken and Dresden.
The Keynote Speaker for this year's workshop will be Prof. Mathias Göken, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Postdoc Position in Computational Mechanics - Ohio State University
The Automated Computational Mechanics Laboratory (ACML) at The Ohio State University has an immediate opening for a one-year postdoctoral research associate position. The project is aimed at the application of the finite element method for simulating and optimizing the laser ablation process in aircrafts. The optimization process involves characterizing the optimal laser parameters (e.g., peak power, fluence, intensity, etc.) to maximize the coating removal efficiency while minimizing damage to the substrate material.
ASME IMECE 2015 Symposium 12-25: "Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield"
We would like to invite you to give a contributed talk at our symposium on “Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield”, at the ASME IMECE November 13-19, 2015 in Houston, Texas.
Please forward this announcement to others you think may be interested in participating.
12-25 Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield
Update: Journal Club Entry July 2014: Overcoming Challenges in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Dear iMechanica,
Last July I posted a journal club entry on overcoming the traditional challenges in mechanically actuating liquid-crystalline elastomers (http://imechanica.org/node/16853). I'm glad to say we finally got our first manuscript regarding this work published in RSC Advances (DOI: 10.1039/C5RA01039J).
Model for static and kinetic friction (rate and state)
We recently proposed a model for rate and state friction by studying the collective (statistical) behavior of viscoelastic asperities. Various observed features of friction emerge as collective phenomena, without postulating them directly at the microscale. The paper is available at the link below.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509614002063
Thank you.
Fracking in living tissues caused by poroelasticity
"Hydraulic fracture during epithelial stretching"
I hope some of you may find this work interesting:
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4206.html
IMECE 2015 Symposium: Modeling and experimental characterization for the behavior of the micro/nanostructured thin films
We would like to invite you to participate in a symposium on “Modeling and experimental characterization for the behavior of the micro/nanostructured thin films” in ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition November 13 – 19, 2015 Houston, Texas. The deadline for abstract submission is March 2, 2015.
Organizers:
Danial Faghihi, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences,UT Austin
Summit on Predictive Modeling of Ductile Failure
Place: AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Dates: March 2-3, 2015
Position Open at NUS (Singapore): Research Fellow
One Research Fellow (Post-doc) position is open at the National University of Singapore.
If hired, you will work at Soft Materials Lab @ Advanced Robotics Centre (ARC), which I head.
Job Desription: Conduct research on biomechanics of the human motion, and how to effectively harvest energy from these motions using a soft and stretchable generator. You are expected to perform both theoretical and experimental investigation, produce research papers and perhaps, file patents.