The Bazant group at MIT Chemical Engineering (http://bazantgroup.mit.edu/) is looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Associate in the area of experimental characterization of batteries. Candidates who are skilled in battery electrode/cell manufacturing, battery analyzing, electrode material characterization, and acoustic and/or mechanical assessments are encouraged to apply by sending a CV to Dr. Juner Zhu (zhujuner [at] mit.edu).
Additive manufacturing of metal alloys yields great potential for the aerospace industry (and others) as it allows the generation of geometrically complex structures with high specific strength, low density and high corrosion resistance. For example, General Electric has demonstrated the possibility of printing titanium fuel injectors for their LEAP engine, EADS has printed a nacelle hinge bracket for the Airbus A320, Boeing incorporated more than 300 printed parts in their 777X airplane … For such critical applications, the structural quality of printed parts is of utmost importance.
Over the last years, UGent-MMS has developed the stand-alone BladeMesher software for generating finite element models of large wind turbine blades. The software reads in the material data and airfoil data of the wind turbine blade, and automatically constructs the geometry and finite element mesh for the blade. In a next step, the nodal and element information of the finite element mesh is written out to an input file for a commercial finite element solver (Abaqus in this case).
A PhD student position in the field of mechanics is available in the Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering at the Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia). The project will focus on developing a new energy-absorbing metamaterial, incorporating the synergistic effect of shear-thickening fluid (STF) and cellular structures, for improved mechanical performance under different loading conditions.
Prior experience with finite element methods and impact testings is highly preferred.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins
High-Throughput Experiments for AI-Driven Design of Materials
A postdoc position in the field of computational mechanics is available in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. The project will focus on developing a systematic integration between experiment, crystal plasticity, finite element method (FEM), or peridynamic implementation of crystal plasticity to find an optimized microstructure for a given lattice structure topology to improve mechanical property under different loading conditions.
This work deals with the small oscillations of two circular cylinders immersed in a viscous stagnant fluid. A new theoretical approach based on an Helmholtz expansion and a bipolar coordinate system is presented to estimate the fluid forces acting on the two bodies. We show that these forces are linear combinations of the cylinder accelerations and velocities, through viscous fluid added coefficients. To assess the validity of this theory, we consider the case of two equal size cylinders, one of them being stationary while the other one is forced sinusoidally.
Greetings everybody
Almost everything is in the title, here are some extra details. The salient point is that the paper submission is now open, and we warmly encourage you to have students and colleagues attend the conference by submitting new (or delayed) papers.
The deadline for submission is the 15th of April.
There are two open Ph.D. positions fully funded in the Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Machine Learning (M4L) Laboratory at Villanova University. The positions start as early as Fall 2022. The successful applicants will work with Dr. David Cereceda on interdisciplinary research topics that involve Computational Mechanics, Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Machine Learning.
2022 International Symposium on Structural Integrity
Changsha, China, October 14-16, 2022
The 2022 International Symposium on Structural Integrity (ISSI2022) will be held at Changsha, China, by Changsha University of Science and Technology, during October 14-16, 2022. The predecessor of the annual symposium, Fracture Mechanics series, took place each year from 2003 to 2009, was renamed as Structural Integrity series after 2010, and organized by China Structural Integrity Consortium (CSIC).
The theme of ISSI2022 is “Structural Integrity of Critical Infrastructure”. The aim of this symposium is hence to bring together people from both academic and industrial communities to exchange ideas and network friendship by discussing emerging structural integrity issues related to critical infrastructure, where papers toward are mostly welcome.
You are cordially invited to attend the symposium, to meet and network colleagues and friends and enjoy your stay in Changsha, China.
Prof. Shan-Tung Tu
Chairman of Symposium Series
East China University of Science and Technology
Prof. Jian Chen
ISSI2022 Executive Chairman
Changsha University of Science and Technology
