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Published in Advanced Materials: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201701353/abstract

Published in Current Gene Therapty: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28494734

Published in Physical Review X: https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021024

PhD positions are available:

I am looking for talented, self-motivated, and enthusiastic students with MSc degree in mechanical or materials engineering. Students with a background in any of the following areas are recommended to apply:

• Solid mechanics and finite element modelling of materials
• Crystal plasticity modelling of polycrystals
• Materials characterization

The selected candidates are expected to start no later than January 2018.  

In this paper, we studied the strain rate dependent failure properties of human diaphragm tissue using uniaxial tensile testing at four strain rates, i.e. 0.0015/s, 65/s, 130/s and 190/s. The custom made quasi-satatic and drop tower based dynamic test setups was used to conduct the tests uptill 200/s strain rate.

A postdoctoral position is available in the area of characterizing the mechanical properties of biological materials. The primary objective is to use experimental methods to investigate the mechanical response of soft tissues. The candidate is responsible to develop and carry out the experiments, analyze the results, and develop computational models to understand the measured properties. Please note that applicants must have previous experience with conducting experiments on soft tissues or soft materials and they are required to have a Ph.D.

The 2017 (tied) winners of the Robert J. Melosh Medal are Matthias Mayr
 (Sandia National Laboratories, previously at TUM, Munich Germany) and Heng Chi (GATech).