Ph.D. research positions are available immediately in the Advanced Materials Research Lab at the University of Miami to perform NSF-funded research in the area of bio-inspired self-healing of cementitious materials. Highly motivated applicants are encouraged to send a CV to Dr. Ali Ghahremaninezhad via email at a.ghahremani [at] miami.edu (a[dot]ghahremani[at]miami[dot]edu).
This project will focus on developing innovative and advanced simulation tools (non-isothermal multi-scale multi-phase flow solver) to manufacture graphene-enhanced polymer composites, which can be used in in EVs with applications in battery cooling systems, battery module housing, and structure of the car body, with improved curing and cooling cycles, reduced time and cost, and tailored thermal-mechanical properties of parts.
Carbon fibre reinforced polymers combines desired features from different worlds. The fibres are stiff and hard, while the polymers are the opposite, weak, soft and with irrelevant fracture toughness. Irrelevant considering the small in-plane deformation that the fibres can handle before they break. It is not totally surprising that one can make composites that display the best properties from each material. Perhaps less obvious or even surprising is that materials and composition can be designed to make the composite properties go beyond what the constituent materials are even near.
A PhD position is available in the Modelling and simulation group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. The position is related to the computational design of lightweight alloys based on high-entropy alloys and metallic materials with nano-architected structure (see sample here). The ideal candidate should have a master degree or bachelors in the area of mechanical engineering.
In the work shown here:
Multiscale modeling of effective elastic properties of fluid-filled porous materials
The elastic deformation and its dependence on fluid displacement is studied at two distinct scales, to address the multi-scale nature of porous structures in nature.
The Louisiana State University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering seeks a postdoctoral researcher to work with the Computational Solid Mechanics (CSM) Research Group on research projects pertaining to computational material modeling and simulation due to a variety of causes including high impact damage, explosions due to energetic materials, other extreme loading conditions, etc. The researcher will also work in strain gradient plasticity to address the characteristics of microstructural material behavior such as size effects and numerical instabilities of shear bands.
We have an immediate opening for a Postdoc Associate and a new PhD Position for the Fall 2020 in the Laboratory for Soft Machines & Electronics (www.caogroup.org) at the Michigan State University. The research work is highly multi-disciplinary, and specific topics includes: Energy harvesters; Sensors and actuators; Artificial skins; soft (active) materials and machines; printed electronics and batteries.
Qualifications for Postdoc Position:
Please see the link for the job description.
https://njit.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=1&id=1755&source=IND
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We are looking for two motivated PhD students to join us in Spring 2020. The successful candidate should have a strong background in continuum mechanics and be proficients in programming. Please take a look at the attached descriptions.
In this paper, a continuum–atomistic multi-scale method is presented in modeling the nonlinear behavior of nano-materials under large deformation. In order to identify an appropriate strain energy function for crystalline nano-structures with different percentages of spherical voids, the hyperelastic method is employed for specimen whose behavior is determined based on the molecular dynamics analyses. In the atomistic level, the EAM many-body potential is employed to model the interactions between the atoms of Al RVEs.
