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The Biomechanics Research Centre (BioMec) at NUI Galway is seeking applications for a funded-PhD position in Multiscale Mechanics of Bone Fragility in Type-2 Diabetes for a project funded by the European Research Council Starter Grant Scheme, under the supervision of Dr. Ted Vaughan (Google Scholar).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2019.103200

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Just submitted a paper on electroadhesion of rough surfaces, greatly simplifying the recent theory of the great Bo Persson , with hot application to touch screens :  see here. 

Comments welcome.

Job Description:

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the State University of New York at Binghamton invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in solid mechanics at the assistant professor level beginning Fall 2020.  Candidates must have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related field. 

The Additive Microstructure Engineering Laboratory (AddME Lab) in the school of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at NTU (Singapore) is a young, diverse, and interdisciplinary research group with interests in in-line microstructure control and assessment during selective laser melting (SLM) processes. In this framework, we are collaborating with the Institute of High Performance Computing under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), to simulate the microstructure of metals produced during SLM.

Dear Colleagues, 

Please consider submitting abstracts to our mini-symposium at the 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV), Paris, France. The abstract submission deadline is December 15, 2019. 

MS397: COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS AND MULTISCALE MODELING IN MANUFACTURING OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES

The NUMISHEET conference series is the most significant international conference on the area of the numerical simulation of sheet metal forming processes. Within Numisheet 2020, we are organizing a mini symposium on “Challenges and Opportunities in Forming Aluminum”.

Additive manufacturing of ceramics from preceramic polymers

Following extensive research by our outstanding doctoral candidate here, Dr. Wang, a publication in the journal Additive Manufacturing is now in press.

Nanostructural insights into the dissolution behavior of Sr-doped hydroxyapatite

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2018.07.056

Improved oxidation resistance of high emissivity coating s on fibrous ceramic for reusable space systems

Here novel disilicides were explored for use in heat shields. 

WSi2 and MoSi2 were applied as coatings on an insulating zirconia substrate.

The high emissivity of these compounds and their mixtures, makes them very attractive for use in spacecraft.

Compressive performance and crack propagation in MAX phase composites 

Here micro CT was used to reveal the structure performance relationships in metal/ceramic composites based on Ti2AlC / Al alloy combinations.

The results show the promise of infiltrated max phase materials in the production of high performance composites.

Theoretical study into the hydrophobicity exhibited by a representative rare earth oxide, CeO2.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433219302399

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The Advanced Manufacturing and Energy Lab (AMEL) directed by Prof. Yanliang Zhang at the University of Notre Dame (a top 15 University in US) have multiple fully-funded graduate students opening positions with full tuition coverage plus a competitive stipend. The AMEL is working on cutting-edge research topics including additive manufacturing and scalable nanomanufacturing of functional devices, micro/nanoscale thermal science and thermoelectric energy conversion, flexible electronics and advanced sensors.

Dear colleagues,  We would like to make you aware of a mini-symposium we are organizing for WCCM-ECOMAS in 2020, to be held in Paris on July 19-24, 2020. The symposium is entitled "Computational Geomechanics", and focuses on modeling aspects related to geological materials.

Two PhD / MS research positions are available in Laboratory for Multiscale Material Modeling (Qin's lab http://eng-cs.syr.edu/directory/?peopleid=13687) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at College of Engineering and Computer Science of Syracuse University for Fall 2020.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336345541_An_introduction_of_the_four-dimensional_lattice_spring_model_UG6_Beijing

ICoCTA 2020 - International Conference on Control Theory and Applications

Conference Flyer including detail information is attached. 

Contact: 

Carrie Kit Tsui

Conference Managing Director

The interactions between solute atoms and crystalline defects such as vacancies, dislocations, and grain boundaries are essential in determining alloy properties.

The School of Engineering at the University of Southampton is in the process of recruiting new Faculty members at levels 5 and 6 (assistant / associate professors), in civil, aerospace and mechanical engineering. The full advert can be consulted here, with more details here. Deadline for applications: November 5th 2019.

We are looking for an Academic Associate to join the Department of Engineering. This post is part-time and in addition you will be required to register for a PhD part-time for the duration of the 5-year post. The PhD is not part of the Academic Associate position. Part-time PhD fees will be paid by the Department for 5 years and the PhD will be in the area of 3D printing of Smart Shape Memory Materials for Advanced Sensors and Actuators.

https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/Open-Positions/CEE-Faculty-Environmental-and-Water-Resources/

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee and the International Scientific Committee, we would like to invite you to organize mini-symposia for the upcoming ASCE joint EMI-PMC 2020 conference at Columbia University in the City of New York, May 26-29, 2020.

PhD positions are available at the University of Minnesota in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella. The positions are in the general area of mechanics and physics of solids and structures, with emphasis on mechanical metamaterials. Topics of current interest are:

1) Topological metamaterials;

2) Nonlinear waves in metamaterials and architected solids;

3) Tunable and programmable metastructures.

In this paper we discuss the mechanics of anelastic bodies with respect to a Riemannian and a Euclidean geometric structure on the material manifold. These two structures provide two equivalent sets of governing equations that correspond to the geometrical and classical approaches to nonlinear anelasticity. This paper provides a parallelism between the two approaches and explains how to go from one to the other. We work in the setting of the multiplicative decomposition of deformation gradient seen as a non-holonomic change of frame in the material manifold.