Veryst Engineering is offering a 2-day in-person training course on Advanced Structural Mechanics using COMSOL Multiphysics. The course will be in Houston on November 3-4, and it will cover basic and advanced structural/solid mechanics capabilities in COMSOL including contact, material modeling, and fatigue. I will teach the course together with Dr. Stuart Brown, Veryst’s Managing Principal.
Professor James R. Rice, of Harvard University, will receive the 2014 Theodore von Karman Medal. Here is a link to an announcement.
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE POSITION University of Pittsburgh The Shankar Research Group (www.shankarlab.pitt.edu) at the University of Pittsburgh anticipates an opening for a postdoctoral associate starting tentatively in September 2014. The position’s primary area of research will focus on mechanical instabilities and actuation in structures fabricated from photoresponsive, azobenzene-functionalized liquid crystal polymers and polyimides. A background in experimental mechanics and mechanical characterization is required.
HARVARD SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
Tenure-track Faculty Position in Materials Science and Engineering
The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University seeks applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. We seek an individual who will perform the highest quality scholarly research, with potential applications to meet an important societal need, such as energy, environment, or health. The expected start date is July 1, 2015.
The reproducing kernel element method is a numerical technique that combines finite element and meshless methods to construct shape functions of arbitrary order and continuity, yet retains the Kronecker-δ property. Central to constructing these shape functions is the construction of global partition polynomials on an element. This paper shows that asymmetric interpolations may arise due to such things as changes in the local to global node numbering and that may adversely affect the interpolation capability of the method.
The posting was temporarily offline yesterday. It’s been re-posted since. The new link is attached below as the old one does not work anymore. Also attached is the description of the position. Thanks again for your interest and help!!
Requisition ID: 94254
iMechanica is turning 8 in a month. The ever growing of iMechanica users has gone far beyond one’s expectation.
I have a 2-year post-doctoral position available at McGill/Polytechnique to work on the effect of shot peening on the residual stresses at the grain levels. The methodology will consist of meshing representative volume elements of polycristals and submitt them to shot peening (explicit dynamic simulations). I require a candidate who has exprience in FE modeling of Representative Volume Elements of polycristals and crystal plasticity.
