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There are immediate openings for candidates in the areas of computational solid mechanics and experimental (bio)mechanics in the mechanical engineering department, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). 

Candidates with strong background in numerical simulations (FEA, high performance computing, ...), in experimental characterization of materials, or biochemistry and molecular biology are encouraged to apply. 

In this paper we formulate the problems of nonlinear and linear elastodynamic transformation cloaking in a geometric framework. In particular, it is noted that a cloaking transformation is neither a spatial nor a referential change of frame (coordinates); a cloaking transformation maps the boundary-value problem of an isotropic and homogeneous elastic body (virtual problem) to that of an anisotropic and inhomogeneous elastic body with a hole surrounded by a cloak that is to be designed (physical problem).

We have an opening PhD Position at our Institute of Mechanics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany).
The candidate should work in the field of "coupling of fictious domain methods and the boundary element method for the analysis of acoustic metamaterials".
Attached you will find the corresponding job advertisement.
Futher questions will be answered by my postdoc Dr. Fabian Duvigneau (fabian.duvigneau [at] ovgu.de).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2018.04.022

Highlights

Recent decades have seen intense developments of hydrogel applications for cell cultures, tissue engineering, soft robotics, and ionic devices. Advanced fabrication techniques for hydrogel structures are being developed to meet user-specified requirements. Existing hydrogel 3D printing techniques place substantial constraints on the physical and chemical properties of hydrogel precursors as well as the printed hydrogel structures. This study proposes a novel method for patterning liquids with a resolution of 100 μm by using the capacitor edge effect.

The Mechanical Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work on a project with the Security Technologies Group in the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD.

Prashant K. Jha and Robert Lipton

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2019. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.03.024

Highlights

1. Well-posedness of a general nonlinear state based peridynamic models.

2. A priori numerical convergence rate for finite difference approximations of state based peridynamic models.

3. Numerical verification of convergence rate for samples with growing cracks.

Two postdoc positions in computational modeling of metallic additive manufacturing are available immediately in the research groups of Prof. Jinhui Yan at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and Prof. Wentao Yan at National University of Singapore (NUS). Successful candidates need to be self-motivated and have a solid background in mathematics, mechanics, numerical analysis, and programming (Fortran, C/C++, and Python).

Being able to create accurate medical devices that are closely matched to a patient’s unique anatomy requires precision imaging, measurements, and design. A critical part of PrinterPrezz’s unique medifacturing™ workflow is our process of turning magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans into a 3D CAD image that can be manipulated and used for 3D printing.