Alireza Amirkhizi's blog
PhD Position on Dynamics of Mechanical Metamaterials at Boundaries and Interfaces
We have an opening for PhD student at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. The focus of the research is
(a) to develop analyltical and computational tools to model the wave interaction and scattering at the interfaces between micro-structured media and homogeneous domain,
(b) to evalulate the proposed models experimentally using additively (or otherwised) manufacutres specimens, and
Journal Club for September 2017: Some recent developments in constitutive modeling of glassy polymers
The physics of glassy materials is a fascinating area of research. On one hand, the statistical mechanics understanding of their behavior is an active and exciting area of research. On the other hand, it is still quite challenging to develop and calibrate predictive constitutive models that reproduce all the observed behaviors. Many of the physical aspects the thermo-mechanics and ageing behavior of glasses are what actually make their constitutive modeling complex.