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Faculty Position in Structures, Mechanics, and/or Materials: University of Pittsburgh
Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position effective September 1, 2016. This position is part of the strategic expansion intended to support research and teaching activities in the broad areas of structural engineering, structural mechanics and civil engineering materials.
Faculty Position in Groundwater Resources, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position effective September 1, 2016. This position is part of the strategic expansion intended to support research and teaching activities in the areas of sustainable water and environmental engineering.
Senior Research Scientist in hydraulic fracturing/geomechanics
CSIRO division of Earth Science and Resource Engineering is seeking a Senior Research Scientist in hydraulic fracturing/geomechanics. The position is located in Melbourne, Australia and the successful candidate will play a leading role in a world class hydraulic fracturing laboratory facility and in a hydraulic fracturing research team that integrates modelling with experimentation at laboratory and field scales.
The International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing
20-22 May 2013, The Hilton Brisbane, Australia
http://hfconference2013.hydrofrac.wikispaces.net/home
The inaugural HF2013 conference aims to advance the effectiveness of hydraulic fracturing for the energy producing and mining industries and beyond.
It is co-organised and sponsored by CSIRO, the University of Utah's Energy and Geoscience Institute, the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS).
Postdoctoral Fellow - Geomechanical Modelling, Perth, Australia
CSIRO division of Earth Science and Resource Engineering is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to develop a coupled Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical (THCM) reservoir model for application to Engineered Geothermal Systems. To read the position details and to apply please visit this link: http://csiro.nga.net.au/?jobID=2aac9739-a118-8730-e510-64c65b15c683&audienceTypeCode=INT&appJobAd=1
Postdoctoral Fellowship studying mechanics of hydraulic fracturing for stimulation of hot fractured rock geothermal reservoirs
CSIRO Petroleum in Melbourne, Australia, welcomes applications to a Postdoctoral Fellowship
in hydraulic fracture stimulation mechanics. The successful candidate
will have a background in applied mechanics and numerical methods with
an interest in verifying numerical calculations by experiment. The
research results will be applied to stimulation of hot fractured rock
geothermal reservoirs.
"Crack" versus "Fracture"
It seems that within the field of fracture mechanics, some authors use "fracture" to refer to the mechanism of creating new surfaces within a body by breaking the material bonds and reserve the word "crack" for the sharp-tipped discontinuity that results from fracture of a brittle material. But it does not appear that this distinction is followed consistently throughout the literature, and perhaps different research areas within the fracture mechanics field use the two words in different ways.
Post doctoral position in geomechanics at CSIRO Petroleum, Melbourne, Australia
https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/job_details.asp?RefNo=2007%2F1216
The post doctoral fellow will be engaged in research on the mechanics of hydraulic fracturing of rock. The primary aim of this project is to investigate, using a novel approach for experimentation spanning laboratory and field scales, the effect of fracture size on the energy required for fracture extension in rock.