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Position for Experimental Technician at Stanford University

Submitted by StanfordEE on

Position is 1-year fixed term.

The Neural Prosthetic Systems Lab in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University conducts neuroscience, neuroengineering, and translational research to better understand how the brain controls movement, and to design medical systems to assist people with movement disabilities. The lab is seeking an experimental technician to lead and perform a variety of projects and tasks to help accelerate research and streamline daily operations for graduate students, postdocs and animal technicians in the lab.

Job responsibilities include

Simpleware at InterPore 2017, Sep 4-5

Submitted by Simpleware on

September 4 - 5, 2017 - University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

The major aim of UK InterPore Conference is to bring together specialists from academia and industry working in areas related to porous media. This is the third annual conference of the UK chapter of the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore). It aims to advance and disseminate the knowledge for the understanding, description, and modeling of natural and industrial porous media systems.

Simpleware at UK InterPore 2017

Eigenerosion for static and dynamic brittle fracture

Submitted by Flavio Stochino on

In contrast to many numerical methods, the eigenerosion approach yields a convenient description of fracture handled in the postprocessing part of a Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Its fully energetic formulation avoids the introduction of extra degrees of freedom to model fracture propagation. Following previous works on eigenerosion, in this publication, a modified formulation of eigenfracture it is introduced, where it is distinguished between compression and tension loaded state. This formulation has the advantage that it relates the crack propagation process only to tensile loading.

Newton optimization algorithm made 10x faster. From necessity to reality.

Submitted by George Papazaf… on

A new optimization concept is introduced which involves the gradient-based optimization of any nonlinear structure by using gradients calculated from a linear equivalent, leading thus to significant computational savings compared to the classical Newton-type optimization algorithms which require gradient information from the nonlinear structure itself.

Call for abstract for SPIE 2018 Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Composites XII conference

Submitted by Lihua Jin on

SPIE 2018 Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Composites XII (SSN04) conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, United States on March 4 to 8 2018, as a part of SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation. 

Topics of interest are broadly grouped into the following categories:

• functional soft materials and structures

• mechanics of smart and multifunctional materials

• modeling and simulation of smart and multifunctional materials

Call for Papers: International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2018)

Submitted by Asst. Prof. Dr… on

Call for Papers: International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2018) ~~

Draft Manuscript submission deadline: 8 December, 2017
Camera-Ready papers & registration deadline: 10 January, 2018
IMECS 2018: Hong Kong, 14-16 March, 2018
http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2018


The 25th International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2018)
is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG), a non-profit

Two PhD positions for Computational Materials and/or Computational Mechanics

Submitted by chenlei08 on

Mississippi State University, Mechanical Engineering department is seeking outstanding candidates for the project “Theoretical Understanding of Porosity-Induced Mechanisms during Solidification of Cast Alloys and their Influence on Process-Structure-Property Correlations”, which is funded by a NSF grant.

Veamy: an extensible object-oriented C++ library for the virtual element method

Submitted by Alejandro Orti… on

This paper summarizes the development of an object-oriented C++ library for the virtual element method (VEM) named Veamy, whose modular design is focused on its extensibility. The two-dimensional linear elastostatic problem has been chosen as the starting stage for the development of this library. In contrast to the standard finite element method, the VEM in two dimensions uses polygonal finite element meshes.