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Post Doc Fellow Position at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Submitted by cwisniewsk on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 18:04

A full time Postdoctoral position is available immediately in the Sensory Motor Performance Program at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Under the general supervision of the assigned Senior Research Scientist, the Post Doc Fellow will be responsible for the development of a three-dimensional multi-scale finite element model of the human knee, and will compute the stress/strain fields in the joint soft tissues before and after common orthopaedic surgeries using three-dimensional hyper-elastic formulation.

Can ansys modelling tubular joint Y

Submitted by allspot on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 08:45

Dear,all

Can ANSYS modelling tubular joint type Y in 3D with a load in plane bending on brace?

Ph.D. Studentships in Composite Materials-Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea

Submitted by astacio on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 08:29

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We welcome applications for a fully funded PhD position in the field of experimental mechanics and materials science. Further details in the attachment.

Postdoc Position in Advanced Materials Lab, Northwestern University

Submitted by cbrinson on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 05:03

A computational model of hydrostatically coupled dielectric elastomer (HCDE) actuators

Submitted by Huiming Wang on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 01:07

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suo group research

dielectric elastomer

Abstract:A hydrostatically coupled dielectric elastomer (HCDE) actuator consists of two membranes of a dielectric elastomer, clamped with rigid circular rings. Confined between the membranes is a fixed volume of a fluid, which couples the movements of the two membranes when a voltage or a force is applied. This paper presents a computational model of the actuator, assuming that the membranes are neo-Hookean, capable of large and axisymmetric deformation. The voltage-induced deformation is described by the model of ideal dielectric elastomer. The forc

nanoscale creep!

Submitted by vikastomar on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 18:56

creep at nanoscale! why??

I hope we could start a discussion here..for more see the following articles in JOM.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/y783g1r4q31nj275/

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/jombyIssue.aspx?issue=JOM\2011\September

and

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921509310008750

direct correspondence betwene stress-thermal condctivity-strain

Submitted by vikastomar on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 18:46

Using a new experimental setup have now proved that one could actually draw a thermal conductivity-strain relationship in the same way as stress-strain relation!

What remains to be seen is that whether this relationship is tensorial or not! Details are in the paper..

Faculty positions in computational mechanics

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 14:40

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Professor; tenure track; UK; Cardiff; computational mechanics; multiscale; XFEM; meshfree

Informal enquiries about positions in Computational Mechanics at Cardiff University School of Engineering should be directed to Professor Stéphane P. A. BORDAS bordasS AT cardiff DOT ac DOT uk

More detais on the institute of Mechanics and Advanced Materials:

http://www.engin.cf.ac.uk/research/resInstitute.asp?InstNo=13

Candidates with track records in computational mechanics, in particular:

- advanced discretisation techniques (XFEM, meshfree, isogeometric analysis)

Futur position for a researcher at IFSTTAR (France) - Soil-structure interactions under seismic and vibratory loads

Submitted by IFSTTARescoffier on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:17

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Position for researcher at IFSTTAR (France - Nantes site). Soil Structure interactions under seismic and vibratory loads. Seismic responses of geotechnical structures.