cdmHUB invites you to attend the Global Composites Experts Webinar Series.
Title: The Story of Permeability in “Liquid Composite Molding (LCM): How to Devise and Validate Process Simulation Software?
Speaker: Dr. Francois Trochu, Polytechnique Montreal
Time: 4/14, 11AM-12PM EST.
Register in advance for this webinar: https://bit.ly/3se6JcV.
A postdoctoral position will be available at University of Pavia in Italy starting January 2023. The position will be part of an ERC Starting project. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Dr Giulia Scalet (giulia.scalet [at] unipv.it).
We will be teaching a short course on residual stress on June 12, 2022 at the SEM Experimental Mechanics conference in Pittsburgh.
See below and https://sem.org/annual (under PROGRAMS/COURSES) for details.
Residual stress short courses don't happen too often. The course should be appropriate for students, industrialists, and researchers. Hope you can make it. The proceeds all benefit SEM.
Residual Stress 101
A 3-year postdoctoral position is available in the Solid Mechanics & Materials Group at the University of Oxford to study the mechanical and degradation behaviour of biodegradable polymers using experimental methods. The postdoctoral researcher will be supervised by Associate Prof. Laurence Brassart and the project is supported by UKRI.
This blog concerns an interesting review of the interaction integral methodology. It deserves to be read by everyone dealing with analyses of cracks. If one's focus is on mathematical analysis or numerics is irrelevant. The review is for all of us. The review paper is, ”Interaction integral method for computation of crack parameters K–T – A review", by Hongjun Yu and Meinhard Kuna, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 249 (2021) 107722, p. 1-34.
Quite a few of mechnicians are active a Twitter. There we interact with one another, and with broad communities. Here are several mechanicians active on Twitter:
Markus Buehler, MIT
John Dolbow, Duke
Alain Goriely, Oxford
Grace Gu, Berkeley
Gareth McKinley, MIT
There is an immediate opening of a postdoctoral researcher in the Mechanics of Soft Materials Lab (https://www.msm.seas.ucla.edu/) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The research will be on additive manufacturing of soft materials and soft machines. The successful candidate should have a PhD degree with expertise in experimental polymer materials.
In rail-wheel contact modelling, there is a huge industrial interest to model accurately rolling contact of hard bodies with friction for predicting fatigue, squeal, noise, vehicle dynamics. In the literature, the case of Carter 1926 has been extended with numerical codes known as FASTSIM and CONTACT which are based on algorithms by JJ Kalker. However, there is a serious problem to model falling rate-dependent friction, which gives unexpected instabilities and unclear solutions.
Our Multiphyical Geomechanics group (Link) at the Civil Engineering department of the University of Colorado Boulder has an opening PhD position for Spring 2023 or Fall 2023 in the area of Engineering Mechanics or Geomechanics. Please see the PDF attached for more details. Thank you!
