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PhD scholarship on: "Reduced Order Model of PGD type application to numerical computing in high cycle fatigue"

Submitted by saberelarem on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 10:40

job

numerical methods

High cycle Fatigue

polycrystalline aggregates

Model Order Reduction

Proper Generalized Decomposition (PGD).

A fully funded PhD scholarship exists in the area of solid mechanics at
the Arts et Métiers ParisTech, CER Angers, France.
http://www.ensam.fr/en/.

The successful applicant will have a Masters' degree in
solid mechanics, physics or applied Mathematics . He/she
is expected to have very good numerical
skills.

Mechanical Analysis of Eyelid Morphology

Submitted by Liangliang Zhu on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 05:01

research

thin film

morphology

Liangliang Zhu and Xi Chen, Acta Biomaterialia (2013)

Biographical Memoir of Zay Jeffries by W.D. Nix

Submitted by William D. Nix on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 04:33

education

history

I have written a National Academy of Sciences biographical memoir of Zay Jeffries, one of the great American metallurgists of the 20th century. I am posting the link to the NAS website here with the thought that some readers of iMechanica might be interested in the piece. Some will be interested to learn that Jeffries came very close to discovering dislocations some 18 years before the great papers of Taylor, Orowan and Polyanyi in 1934.

Professor Rod Clifton to Receive Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award

Submitted by Dibakar Datta on Mon, 05/13/2013 - 03:46

Rod Clifton , Rush C. Hawkins University Professor Emeritus and Professor (Research) at the School of Engineering at Brown University, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award .

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Submitted by Dr. Carsten Broese on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 16:45

job

A research position for a Postdoctoral Research Associate is now available at the working group of Continua Mechanics at the TU Darmstadt, Germany, led by Professor Dr.-Ing. Charalampos Tsakmakis.

The position is fulltime fixed-term for two years.

Numerical Simulation of Particle Stress and Fracture using FEMDEM: Application to Process Catalysts

Submitted by marigom on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 13:49

Imperial College London

DEM

johnson matthey

discrete element modelling

catalyst

finete element modelling

Numerical
Simulation of Particle Stress and Fracture using FEMDEM: Application to Process
Catalysts

Johnson
Matthey CASE/EPSRC PhD Studentship Award- Duration 36 months

Supervision:

Dr JP Latham, Dr Jiansheng Xiang

Industry Contacts:

Principal Investigator - Dr Michele Marigo

Co-investigators - Dr Mikael Carlsson, Prof Hugh Stitt

Optimised determination of viscoelastic properties using compliant measurement systems

Submitted by andrewjw on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 11:19

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton on high strain rate material testing

Submitted by Fabrice Pierron on Thu, 05/09/2013 - 14:23

job

high strain rate

high speed imaging

full-field measurements

inverse identification

Title: Exploration of novel multiaxial high strain rate tests of materials based on full-field strain measurements and inverse identification

Sponsor: EOARD http://www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=16662/

Start of PhD: end of September 2013

Two postdoctoral positions available at NIST

Submitted by Zhengzhi Wang on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 13:26

job

simulation

biomaterials

finite element modeling

molecular dynamic modeling

The Biosystems and Biomaterials Group at NIST has two postdoctoral positions available for recent PhD graduate to work on (1) simulation of photon transport (light migration) in polymeric composites (2) modeling of cell-material adhesive interactions. These interdisciplinary research programs require the prospective applicants to have a strong background in computational methods (finite element or MD). For the cell-material interaction, candidates with prior experience on biophysics are preferred.