Blog posts
Catastrophic thinning of dielectric elastomers
Consider a thin dielectric plate with conducting faces: when will it break if a voltage is applied? If it is rigid it will break once its dielectric strength is overcome by the voltage. But what if it is highly stretchable, like the elastomers used for soft actuators, stretchable electronics, or energy harvesters? The precise answer to that question is not known.
Postdoctoral Research Associate position in computational fluid-structure interaction
We invite applications for the postdoctoral position in Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Maine. The research area is in the computational modeling of fluid-structure-acoustics interactions, especially the modeling of nonlinear thin wall structure with large strains.
Preferred qualifications are:
1) Ph.D. in mechanical engineering or related fields.
A novel class of highly efficient and accurate time-integrators in nonlinear computational mechanics
A new class of time-integrators is presented for strongly nonlinear dynamical systems. These algorithms are far superior to the currently common time integrators in computational efficiency and accuracy. These three algorithms are based on a local variational iteration method applied over a finite interval of time.
Postdoctoral position in mesoscale plasticity
The School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the area of Computational Mesoscale Plasticity. The successful candidate will model plasticity of single crystals using continuum dislocation dynamics and perform computational solution using finite element method. We are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in computational materials science and/or computational mechanics, good background in elasticity and plasticity theory, and knowledge of dislocation dynamics.
American Society for Composites Annual Conference Open for Submission
We are delighted to invite you to attend the American Society for Composites Annual Technical Conference which will be held on the campus of Purdue University, Oct. 23-25, 2017. The conference website is: https://cdmhub.org/groups/asc2017.
The conference welcomes all papers related with various aspects of composites science and technology. There are total of 25 tracks organized. The important dates are:
