The Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT, Madras seeks to fill Assistant and Associate Professor vacancies in specialisations related to Structural Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Design and Flight Control. For full details, please visit facapp.iitm.ac.in. Application deadline: 21 March, 2014.
A post-doctoral position is available in the lab of Sachin Velankar at the University of Pittsburgh to examine buckling instabilities in soft polymeric materials. The project is experimental, and therefore some past experimental experience with polymers is desirable. However this project requires a thorough understanding of elastic instabilities, and therefore a comprehensive grasp of mechanics is absolutely essential – indeed more important than past experimental expertise.
I’ll present this below without the answer, in case you want to enjoy a little brain teaser. It is a solid and experimental mechanics problem that, while not terribly practical, I found very interesting:
A part fractures cleanly in two by brittle fracture (no plasticity) under the action of residual and applied stresses. You only have the broken part in front of you, no prior information.
What were the original residual stresses on the fracture plane?
Dear Colleague,
this is to inform you that the research unit MUSAM "Multi-scale Analysis of Materials" (http://musam.imtlucca.it) at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy) has opened 1 Post-doctoral Fellow position (1 year but renewable for a maximum of 3 years in total) on Computational mechanics applied to solar energy materials, related to the ERC Starting Grant CA2PVM
(http://musam.imtlucca.it/CA2PVM.html) and under my supervision.
I have performed some high strain rate split hopkinson
compression tests. The oscilloscope reads the incident and reflected
displacments (in input pressure bar) and transmitted displacment (in output
pressure bar) in volt. To convert displacement in volt (output voltage) to
mechanical strain (m/m), I have a difficalty. What is the relationship between
the output voltage (volt) (the reading from oscilloscope), excitation voltage (volt)
and strain gauge Gauge Factor (GF)?
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Post-doctoral position available in computational mechanics at Rice University. The announcement and instructions to apply are posted at
Some funding agencies require that articles be published only in journals with impact factors greater than 1. Here's a list from 2012 that tells you which to choose (if you care about impact factors).
-- Biswajit
