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Call for participation
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2 funded PhD Studentships
MultiScale Theoretical and Computational Modelling
of Composite Structures
Grant: stipend (circa
£15,590 per annum) and fees (at home rate)
for 3 years.
Start date:
October 2012 (flexible)
Eligibility criteria:
All applicants are eligible, but fees are covered only at the home rate
(suitable for EU citizens)
Dominik Schillinger, doctoral candidate of IGSSE project team MAC B7 (High-End Toolbox for Simulation and Optimisation of Multi-Physics PDE Models) won the sixth John Argyris Award for the best paper by a young researcher in the field of Computational Mechanics! His paper An Isogeometric Design-through-analysis Methodology based on Adaptive Hierarchical Refinement of NURBS, Immersed Boundary Methods, and T-spline CAD Surfaces has been published in the journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
To read more about Dr Colette, from the University of University of Michigan, go to the Ocean Engineering homepage: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ocean-engineering/journal-news/deputy-chief-editor-appointed/
A post-doctoral position is available at our continuum mechanics workgroup (Prof. Tsakmakis, TU Darmstadt, Germany) for developing user subroutines and user elements in finite element programs.
Experience in nonlinear finite element analysis, numerical methods in solid mechanics and FORTRAN 90 is needed.
If you are interested, please contact me, Dr. C. Broese, broese [at] mechanik.tu-darmstadt.de
(Opening date: June, 1st 2012 - Closing date: June, 30th 2012)
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is seeking to fill a Lecturer position in structural engineering with the opportunity to build strong ties with MIT Department of Architecture. Position is full-time for a three-year period starting September 1, 2012.
A report published in Procedia Engineering suggests that the 'phenomenon of swing bowling, in which a cricket ball veers sideways during flight, is not influenced by humidity'...
To read the full BBC article, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18262145
To read the Procedia report, go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705812016463
A postdoctoral fellowship funded by the US Air Force is available at the University of Southampton (UK) to work in the area of computational mechanics applied to biomimetics and bio-inspired structures for military applications.
CLOSING DATE: 18 June 2012 (Earliest starting date: July 1st 2012)
ONLINE APPLICATION:
https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=121312BX
