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Short crack propagation
Please help me in arranging the following research paper:
H. Kitagawa, S. Takahashi, "Applicability of fracture mechanics to very small cracks or the cracks in the early stage", Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Mech. Behaviour of Materials, Boston, p. 627-631, 1976.
Thanks In advance
Rajwinder Singh
Project Fellow (PhD) position for Indo-China project in Computational Mechanics
The project is between BITS Pilani (India) and Wuhan University (China), funded by the Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India. It is in the area of computational fracture mechanics.
Details of the project and application process is in the attachment.
Call for Abstract: 2016 EMI International Conference - MS11: Instabilities and Bifurcations in Solids, Structures and Soft Materials
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to submit your 1 page abstract to our Mini-Symposium (MS11) "Instabilities and Bifurcations in Solids, Structures and Soft Materials" in 2016 EMI International Conference – Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference of ASCE.
Tenure-track Faculty positions at Zhejiang University, China
Zhejiang University (ZJU) is one of the earliest and most prestigious universities in China. Department of Engineering Mechanics, taking comprehensive advantages of ZJU and School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, focuses on multidisciplinary research in Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Dynamics and Control. ZJU is seeking faculty candidates for its newly launched, highly competitive and well-funded “Hundred Talents Program” according to the tenure-track rules.
Reading unfortunate Planck
Planck submitted his doctoral dissertation in 1879, at the age of 21. According to Planck’s autobiography, his dissertation elaborated on Clausius's entropy and its role in distinguishing reversible and irreversible processes. His dissertation failed to interest his professors, Helmholtz and Kirchhoff among them. Planck subsequently, as a young academic, applied the principle of the increase of entropy to analyze phases and ideal-gas mixtures.
Looking for Msc or PhD Position
Dear all
Modeling of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanotube–polymer composites
Highlights
- In polymer matrix nanocomposites (PNC), carbon nanotubes (CNT) physically bond with polymeric matrix at a level where the assumption of continuum level interactions is not applicable.
- Modeling and prediction of mechanical response and failure behavior of CNTs and PNCs becomes a task involving up-scale modeling strategies with multiple spatial and temporal scales in hierarchical or concurrent manner.
Multiscale modeling of effective electrical conductivity of short carbon fiber-carbon nanotube-polymer matrix hybrid composites
Highlights
- - A hierarchical modeling approach is presented to predict the electrical conductivity of hybrid composites.
- - Influence of CNT content, anisotropic conductivity, percolation and interfacial resistance is studied.
- - Effect of short carbon fiber (SCF) loading, conductivity anisotropy, aspect ratio, and orientation is also reported.
A postdoctoral position on solid mechanics
Dear Professor,
I am Fan Xie, currently a doctoral candidate in solid mechanics, Beihang University. I will receive my Ph. D. degree in July 2016.
I have published one paper about IPC based on phase field method, one paper on nanoporous material and one paper about polymer impact based on MDs is under review. I write this email to inquire about the possibility of a postdoctoral position in your research team.
In brief, I have