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Faculty Position in Mechanical Engineering at University of Chile

Submitted by Alejandro Orti… on

Dear all,

In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, at University of Chile, we are seeking to fill a faculty position with an exceptional researcher in areas related to Mechanical Engineering. The official call is expected to appear by March 2015. 

Postdoctoral position in molecular mechanics at U Minnesota

Submitted by srvc on

<p>A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. The computational project aims to provide a fundamental understanding of water and solute transport across polymer films, and of the interaction of biomolecules with polymeric aqueous interfaces.

Job opening for a Research Scientist at A*STAR IHPC, Singapore

Submitted by KeithFoo on

The Soft Matter group in the Engineering Mechanics department of A*STAR IHPC is seeking a highly motivated and qualified Research Scientist to work in the area of applied mechanics and materials, with focus on soft active materials. The applicant must hold a PhD in applied mechanics, mechanical engineering, or relevant fields. The candidate should have experience in finite element simulation, as well as the ability to implement in-house codes and user-subroutines.

Faculty position in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCSD

Submitted by Cai Shengqiang on

The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE, http://maeweb.ucsd.edu/) at the Jacobs School of Engineering (JSOE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor rank with research focus on experimental and/or computational mechanics of advanced materials under extreme conditions.

What is exactly the 'pressure' of a solid in thermodynamics?

Submitted by xiashengxu on

Most literatures on thermodynamics are written or started with the language of 'ideal gas'.


This confuses me a lot when I switch to consider solids. For example, the enthalpy of a system
is defined as H = U + P*V, where P is the pressure of the 'system'. This definition is found to be convenient
when dealing with gas. But in terms of solids, I really doubt if the 'pressure' is meaningful. The volume makes
sense but its relation with energy should be expressed in another way when we consider for example cold-
work.