One fully funded Ph.D. position is available in the Dynamic Structures Lab at Stony Brook University. The intended starting semester is Fall 2023.

A good applicant has a background in engineering, physics or mathematics, and is passionate about mechanics and its application to structural systems at various lengthscales. An ideal applicant has coding experience, is creative and can make things.

Structured PhD in Applied Mathematics (4-years full-time)

Project topic: Prediction of the plastic yielding of additively manufactured Steel 316L: Development and validation of a physics-informed mathematical model

Project supervisors: Dr. Doireann O’Kiely, Dr. Kyriakos Kourousis and Professor Michael Vynnycky.

The Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) Lab at the University of Houston (UH), led by Dr. Ruda Zhang, invites applications for:

• two (2) PhD student positions in areas of data-driven engineering and uncertainty quantification, and
• one (1) postdoctoral researcher in areas of surrogate modeling and data-driven dynamics.

For job details and updates, see lab webpage: https://uq.uh.edu/positions

Our group in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is working on a range of problems, involving mechanics and physics of 2D materials, soft materials and biological systems. We employ methods of continuum mechanics, mathematics, statistical physics and atomistic simulations to explore the mechanics of 2D materials, electromechanical coupling in soft materials, as well as physical mechanisms underlying the interface of nanomaterials and biology.

Our ice mechanics group at Aalto University (Finland) is looking for a PhD-student to work on offshore wind in cold sea areas. We will use discrete element method to study how drifting sea ice affects an offshore wind farm and how the wind farm affects the sea ice surrounding it.

Joining: https://wwwfr.uni.lu/formations/fstm/doctoral_programme_in_computationa…

PhD candidate on Machine Learning applied to Critical Zone sciences 

Applications are invited for a Ph.D. position in the area of theoretical/computational solid mechanics. Some topics of research interest are elasticity theory, wave propagation, dynamic fracture and friction, and earthquake dynamics. A good background in mathematical modeling, applied mathematics and scientific computing is required.

We invite you to participate in a minisymposium at the 17th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM17) conference that will take place in Albuquerque, NM, USA, from July 23-27, 2023. The title of the minisymposium is "Performance-portable algorithms for unstructured mesh applications” (https://17.usnccm.org/510).  Abstracts are due by January 15, 2023. 

The unified mechanics theory (UMT) is ab-initio unification of the second law of thermodynamics and Newton's universal laws of motion, in which Boltzmann's second law of entropy formulation governs dissipation & degradation. Hence, the unified mechanics theory does not require any empirical dissipation & degradation potential function or an empirical void evolution function. Material degradation is quantified on the Thermodynamic state index (TSI) axis based on the specific entropy production, which starts at zero and asymptotically approaches one at failure.

SYMPOSIUM ON SOLID MECHANICS

Symposium Co-Chairs:

Dr. Hamid Akbarzadeh (McGill University) and Dr. Sardar Malek (University of Victoria)

Call for Papers – Submission Deadline: January 15, 2023

THE SOLID MECHANICS SYMPOSIUM