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Dear iMechanicians,

I would like to inform you about the workshop WCFA2016-VFA, which is this year organized with the focus set on Vibration Fatigue Analysis. The workshop will be held at the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic from November 8 to November 10, 2016. The introductory lessons in the first day will be presented by Prof Darrell Socie, Prof Milan Ruzicka and Dr Jan Papuga, while the main topic - Vibration Fatigue Analysis - will follow in next two days and will be covered by Dr Neil Bishop.

One fully-funded PhD position in Structural Integrity for Nuclear Applications is avalable at the University of Bristol with a tax-free stipend of £18,000 per annum. Please see the full advert here for details:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOI473/phd-studentship-structural-integrity-f…

There is an opening for a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Jay Kruzic’s group at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney, Australia.  The initial term will be one year, with the potential to extend the appointment for 2-3 years based on performance and availability of funding. 

Key duties:

A cantilever beam with elastic hinge pulled antagonistically by two dielectric elastomer (DE) membranes in tension forms a foldable actuator if one DE membrane is subject to a voltage and releases part of tension. Simply placing parallel rigid bars on the prestressed DE membranes results in enhanced actuators working in pure shear state. We report design, analysis, fabrication and experiment of soft mobile robots that are moved by such foldable DE actuators.

Please see the Website for more details.

Several Ph.D./M.Sc. positions available at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at the Computational Fluid & Structural Mechanics (CFSM) group of professor Artem Korobenko.

Candidates should have a good communication skills and strong background in numerical methods and programming in one of the languages (Fortran/Python/C/C++) and have solid knowledge in one of the following areas: 

The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania is growing its faculty by 33% over a five-year period. As part of this initiative, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics is engaged in an aggressive, multi-year hiring effort for multiple tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels.