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Ph.D. position(s) in the Atomistic and Multiscale Mechanics Group at the Iowa State University

Submitted by Shuozhi Xu on
job
Ph.D. position; opening; Computational Solid Mechanics; multiscale modeling

Graduate student applications are invited for PhD positions in the Atomistic and Multiscale Mechanics Group in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Iowa State University. Self-motivated students in the area of theoretical, computational and applied mechanics, computational materials science, or condensed matter physics are encouraged to apply. Research topics cover multiscale simulation of dislocation, fracture, phase transformation and heat transfer in materials. Individuals who have research experience in one or more of the following areas are especially desired:

Amplifying the response of soft actuators by harnessing snap-through instabilities

Submitted by Johannes T.B. … on
soft actuator
snap-through instability
fluidic segment
amplification

Engineering actuators with capabilities that match and even exceed those found in nature, is a long-standing challenge. While traditional actuators are built with hard materials, it has been recently shown that elastomeric materials enable the design of fluidic actuators that are lightweight, inexpensive, easy to fabricate, and able to undergo large deformation and complex motions. However, these actuators typically rely on large volumes for their actuation.

Ultra-stretchable and skin-mountable strain sensors using carbon nanotubes–Ecoflex nanocomposites

Submitted by mortezaamjadi on
research
flexible electronics
wearable
Flexible sensors
Carbon nanotube

Super-stretchable, skin-mountable, and ultra-soft strain sensors are presented by using carbon nanotube percolation network–silicone rubber nanocomposite thin films. The applicability of the
strain sensors as epidermal electronic systems, in which mechanical compliance like human skin and high stretchability (e > 100%) are required, has been explored. The sensitivity of the strain

"Imperfection" in graphene oxide invites surprising properties in a mechano-chemical way

Submitted by Xiaoding Wei on
research
graphene oxide
Plasticity
ductility
defects

In an article published in the August 20 issue of Nature Communications, we report a mechanochemical phenomenon in graphene oxide membranes, covalent epoxide-to-ether functional group transformations that deviate from epoxide ring-opening reactions, discovered through nanomechanical experiments and density functional-based tight binding calculations.

queries regarding ansys

Submitted by Saurav Das on

1.  kindly provide me some guidelines for applying material properties in ANSYS workbench to a cylindrical  body whose inner portion up to a certain radius is of isotropic and outer portion is of orthotropic..

2. can we provide a texture in a surface of one body which is assembled to other and then perform a analysis in ansys?

thank you.

 

Full PhD scholarship at Curtin University, Australia (Structural Engineering; Civil Engineering)

Submitted by cwstj_cn1 on
job

The candidate will work with Prof. Hong Hao and Dr. Wensu Chen in the area of structural Engineering on an Australia Research Council (ARC) Linkage project.
Please refer to http://civil.eng.curtin.edu.au/people/index.cfm/Hong.Hao  and http://civil.eng.curtin.edu.au/people/index.cfm/Wensu.Chen for more information about Prof. Hao and Dr. Chen's research work

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