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Fully-funded PhD position in Computational Mechanics [#1] for EU students for September 2016, University of Southampton, UK

Submitted by Georges Limbert on

PhD project 1 (Reference: NGCM-0011)

 

Generalised asymptotic numerical methods for buckling instability problems in biological systems and bio-inspired morphing structures

Biotribology Group, nCATS
Faculty of Engineering and the Environment
University of Southampton, United Kingdom

 

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A Ph.D. student position in Mechanical Engineering at Temple University

Submitted by Haijun Liu on

There is one open Ph.D. student position with financial support in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Temple University to start in Fall, 2016 . The successful applicant will work with Dr. Haijun Liu in his LISTEN Lab (http://sites.temple.edu/listen) on interdisciplinary research topics that involve mechanics, biology, acoustics, and sensor technology. The research topic for this position is on the mechanics/asoutics modeling of thin sound insulators and experimental characterization.  Interested candidates are invited to email Dr.

Fatigue design and maintenance of railway axles

Submitted by S. Beretta on

The ESIS Technical Committee 24 provides a forum for researchers and engineers who deal with structural integrity problems in modern railway system. During our latest meeting, held on 1-2 October 2014 at Politecnico di Milano, excellent talks presented results obtained within different research projects, including  EURAXLES - EBFW3  and SUSTRAIL.

Int. J. Fatigue, Vol. 86, 2016

Ph. D student and Post-doc researcher are needed

Submitted by Yaning Li on

Positions of one Ph.D student and one Post-doc researcher are now open in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to work on NSF and DoD funded projects. We are looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated candidates who are experienced in solid and structural mechanics, composites, and materials science. Specifically, candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply:

  1. Mechanical and material experiments (Coupon tests under material testing machine, SEM, etc.)

CALL FOR PAPERS - Impact, Damage and Fracture of Composite Structures, 2016 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Phoenix, AZ 2016

Submitted by a12najafi on

CALL FOR PAPERS

2016 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Phoenix, Arizona, November 11-17, 2016

Track 3: Advances in Aerospace Technology

Topic 3-10: Impact, Damage and Fracture of Composite Structures

Organized by K.T. Tan (ktan [at] uakron.edu) and Ali Najafi (ali.najafi [at] ansys.com

 

WEBINAR - How TURBOdesign Suite enables pump designers to meet emission legislation | Wed 9 March

Submitted by ADT on

In order to meet emission legislation such as EU’s Ecodesign directive or US’s Energy Conservation Standard for Pumps, pump designers need to optimize the efficiency of the pump over multiple operating points. In this 1 hour free webinar we will show how the different modules available in TURBOdesign Suite, especially the 3D inverse design code TURBOdesign1 and automatic optimization platform TURBOdesign Optima can be used to rapidly design high performance pump stages that meet requirement at multiple operating points.

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Usermat: Linear viscoelastic model with geometric nonlinearity

Submitted by augustus on

Hello,

I have implemented a linear viscoelastic model using the user subroutine Usermat in Ansys.
I have used the classical paper: "Formulation and implementation of three-dimensional viscoelasticity at small and finite strains" of Kaliske & Rothert (Simo's approach) and it works fine for small deformations.

It is written in the documentation that in the case of a simulation with large strain (geometric nonlinearity), one must rotate the state variables.