A body is subject to a load. What is the magnitude of the load that will cause the body to fracture? Let us begin with a body made of a glass, which deforms elastically by small strains. A procedure you have been taught before probably goes as follows. You first determine the maximum stress in the body. You then determine the strength of the material. The body is supposed to fracture when the maximum stress in the body reaches the strength of the material.

 A new section has been added to the website http://www.failurecriteria.com/.  This is on critical tests for failure criteria.  It summarizes most of the previous entries to the website and provides evaluations of the most salient of the failure criteria by comparing with high quality experimental data.

PhD fellowships available at the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology in the general area of Micro- and Nano-fluidics http://www.itba.edu.ar/lab_micro_y_nanofluidica/ .  If interested, please contact aallievi AT itba.edu.ar. Although not a requirement, knowledge of Spanish is desirable

Fall 2020, Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 pm–1:15 pm.

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   We have PhD dissertation openings in areas related to structural and computational solid mechanics. The successful candidate will join a vibrant group of graduate students and post-docs working in a variety of projects in Computational Physics and Structural SL. A Bachelor's or equivalent degree in engineering or science in a related discipline is required. MSc and publications in international journals is highly desirable. Other requirements are TOEFL and GRE.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO429/research-associate/

http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G069352/1

12 month post-doc available on the simulation of nano-electronics using the extended finite element method.

Good luck! 

Steph

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAO333/research-associate

http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G042705/1

4 year post-doc available in Cardiff in collaboration with

- Rolls-Royce

- CENAERO (Morfeo)

- Universidad Polit ́ecnica de Valencia

- inuTech

- Helskinki University of Technology

Good luck!

Steph