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Postdoctoral Fellow- Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence

Submitted by moh22000 on

Applications are invited for an immediate  postdoctoral position within the Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at the University of New Brunswick. The candidate will perform research in the area of materials characterization of additively manufactured metals (aluminum or steels) developed through powder bed fusion techniques. The candidate will use several experimental techniques to characterize the 3D printed metals such as OM, SEM, EBSD measurements, fractography, and TEM.

Post-doctoral Fellow Position at Mines ParisTech

Submitted by bouvard_jl on
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Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellow research position at the Center for Material Forming at Mines ParisTech. The Fellow will focus on computational modeling of discontinuous fibers composites. Code writing ability and strong background in mechanics are required.  Applicants must hold a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline.

Open Postdoc & PhD positions in Computational Materials Science

Submitted by Erik Bitzek on
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atomistic simulations
molecular dynamics
Computational Fracture Mechancis

In the next months, we have a couple of openings for Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students in Computational Materials Science. If you are interested and at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston (Nov 25th - Dec. 2nd) , hit me up!

From flat sheets to curved geometries: Origami and kirigami approaches

Submitted by azadpoor on

Our recent review paper on how origami and kirigami techniques that could be used to create curved geometries has been just publised online. It is available as an open access article, which is why I am posting it here. We have also included some beautiful photos of our hand-folded origami and kirigami. 

Callens, SJP, Zadpoor, AA, 2017, “From flat sheets to curved geometries: origami and kirigami approaches”, Materials Today, in press.

Book Review---First book on "Dynamics of Lattice Materials”---by Srikantha Phani and Mahmoud Hussein

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

“Metamaterials” are the fabled materials exhibiting properties and functionalities that defy expectations. Or at least that's how I have always defined them to myself. These first emerged on the scientific scene in the nineties; or perhaps that is when an extensive flurry of activities on this subject can be traced to. The initial focus was on designing (what appeared to me as) composites with a specific geometrical inner structure that allowed the emergence of electromagnetic properties not typically seen in nature; such as negative refractive index.

Faculty Position - Department of Electrical Engineering - Stanford University

Submitted by StanfordEE on

The Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (http://ee.stanford.edu/) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) in the broadly defined field of electrical and computer engineering. The department is especially interested in candidates in robotics, autonomous systems, embedded systems, control, optimization, and machine learning.

Poisson Contraction and Fiber Kinematics in Tissue: Insight from Collagen Network Simulations

Submitted by Mohammad Refat… on
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fiber network
soft tissue mechanics
Poisson's effect

Connective tissue mechanics is highly non-linear, exhibits a strong Poisson effect and is associated with significant collagen fiber re-arrangement. Although the general features of the stress-strain behavior in tension and compression and under uniaxial, biaxial and shear loading have been discussed extensively, especially from the macroscopic perspective, the Poisson effect and the kinematics of filaments have received less attention. In general, the relationship between the microscopic fiber network mechanics and the macroscopic experimental observations remains poorly defined.

Obituary for prof. Paul Paris the inventor of the fatigue crack propagation "Paris' law"

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on
mechanician

I do not think in Imechanica there has been an obituary for Paul Paris, whose work in fatigue crack propagation is extraordinary and one of the few important and lasting contributions ----- today our aircrafts, both civil and military, all rely on "damage tolerance", which is based on Paris' law.   Paris' law, as every great innovations, was published in 1961 only after rejection by three of the leading journals in the fracture mechanics field.  It bears the name of "law" although of course it is not like Newton's law.  It is a power law, based perhaps on what Baren

Phd positions in Mechanical/Structural Engineering University of Technology Sydney

Submitted by Liya Zhao on
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The School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney is seeking PhD students to work on projects related to:

 

a) Energy Harvesting: harnessing renewable energy from wind, vibration, human motion, ocean wave, etc.

b) Smart Materials and Structures: adaptive structures with composite materials, smart materials (piezoelectric/flexoelectric/triboelectric/magnetorheological,etc) for energy conversion and vibration control; acoustic metamaterials

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