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Call for Abstracts: Symposium on Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials, IMECE 2017, Tampa, Florida (Nov. 3-9, 2017)

Submitted by mihussein on Mon, 02/27/2017 - 14:14

The Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD) is sponsoring the 2017 Symposium on Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials. This symposium, which will be in its 13^th year, will feature presentations covering all aspects of phononic crystals and acoustic/elastic/phononic metamaterials.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: March 6, 2017

Conference Website: https://www.asme.org/events/imece

Call for Abstracts attached.

Post-Doc Position Available in Fracture Mechanics

Submitted by David Gonzalez on Mon, 02/27/2017 - 13:35

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This is a 9 months post-doc position on modelling crack problems at Portsmouth University (UK).

The project will focus on using Abaqus to model the full field near-tip strains. Corresponding experimental data has been collected for model validation using Digital Image Correlation. Deadline for application: 12th March 2017. International applicants welcome. More details and instructions to apply on: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXH079/senior-research-associate-in-fracture-…

Politecnico di Milano creates a large debate in Italy with its decision to teach only in English

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Mon, 02/27/2017 - 07:40

Recently, Politecnico di Milano in Italy has attempted to force all teaching at Master level in English. This has been stopped by some academics who went to different levels of administrative courts, and recently there was a prononciation of the Supreme Court. The matter is not settled yet, but you can find an account of this with various links here.

Setting up a OpenGL renderer in javascript

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on Mon, 02/27/2017 - 01:21

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Check out my series on creating a particle viz tool in Javascript. Part 4 is at http://www.parresianz.com/javascript/typescript/threejs/vue/vtk-threejs-renderer/

-- Biswajit

Ph.D. Candidate Position in fatigue and fracture of structures at University of Connecticut

Submitted by SamWeiZhang on Sun, 02/26/2017 - 02:43

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One Ph.D. candidtate position is available in Dr. Wei Zhang's research group at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the University of Connecticut.

The candidate will continue our current research efforts on short fatigue crack growth.

Students with strong backgrounds in solid mechanics, finite element modeling, crystal plasticity, fatigue and fracture of materials and structures are encouraged to apply.

More information could be found at: http://dm2l.uconn.edu/openings/

PhD Candidate Positions in Composite Materials and Structures at Leibniz Universität Hannover

Submitted by jansen on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 22:58

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Closed: Research Fellow (PhD) position in ISRO funded project

Submitted by Gaurav Singh on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 10:18

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has funded a 2 year project to BITS Pilani (Goa and Hyderabad campuses). The simulation project will model atomistic fracture in amorphous silica, with application to the Thermal Protection System (TPS) of the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV).

Details of application are mentioned in the attachment.