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Tenure-track Assistant / Associate Professor Positions in the field of “Renewable Energy Technologies"
The Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering (MPE) at Aarhus University is expanding its research and teaching activities in the field of “Renewable Energy Technologies” and invites applications for two Tenure-track Assistant / Associate Professor positions within the Section of “Fluids and Energy”.
Tenure-track Assistant / Associate Professor in the field of “CO2 capture or conversion”
The Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering (MPE) at Aarhus University is expanding its research and teaching activities in the field of “CO2 capture or conversion” and invites applications for Tenure-track Assistant / Associate Professor position within the Section of “Fluids and Energy”.
PhD openings in Computational Solid Mechanics and Methods at University of Kentucky
The Computational Mechanics and Methods (CM3) Group in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kentucky is seeking highly self-motivated individuals who have great interest in the broad research areas of computational solid mechanics and methods, beginning either Spring 2025 or Fall 2025. Interested individuals should send a detailed CV and official transcripts to Dr.
Rigidity theory meets homogenization: How periodic surfaces bend
In differential geometry, rigidity theory investigates whether a surface can deform by pure bending without stretching. The central problem is to find or disprove the existence of isometric deformations.
Classical examples in the "discrete" category include:
- The finite rigidity of convex polyhedra by Cauchy
- The infinitesimal rigidity of convex polyhedra by Dehn
- The existence of flexible (non-convex) polyhedra by Connelly
In the "smooth" category, we have:
postdoc in structural mechanics at Johns Hopkins
We are looking for a Postdoc Fellow in the area of structural mechanics (4D printed morphing structures). The successful candidate will work in Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), Johns Hopkins University on a fully funded research project.
Duties
• Design, fabricate and conduct mechanical tests and numerical simulations on morphing structures with programmable materials such as shape memory polymer or other similar materials
• Write technical reports, papers and research proposals
• Guide the graduate students in the group
classical rate-independent models for viscoelastic fracture do not work!
It is 50 years that people use models of viscoelastic fracture which assume the fracture energy in the process zone is independent on the crack speed. This has been assumed in the cohesive models by Knauss and Schapery and then by the dissipation theory of de gennes and Persson-Brener. Researchers like to use this model because it is simple. Unfortunately, it does not work, as we show in adhesion experiments in the recent JMPS paper attached. We obtain nice results for a broad band power law material, but these results only work at very low speeds.
Classical variational phase-field models cannot predict fracture nucleation
by Oscar Lopez-Pamies, John E. Dolbow, Gilles A. Francfort, and Chris J. Larsen
Abstract
Postdoc position in multiphysical battery modeling
Dear colleagues,
Universidad Loyola Andalucía (Seville, Spain) is currently offering a postdoc position (2 years) within the “BatCAT” project, at the Department of Engineering. The aim of this project is to develop a multiscale multiphysical simulation framework of the manufacturing process of electrodes, by means of a coupled thermo-diffusive-mechanical numerical model (DEM- or FEM-based).
Requirements
PhD research assistant position at the University of Oklahoma
Position Title:
PhD Research Assistant
School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus
General Description: