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Dear Colleagues, 

The registration for 2019 Science of Adhesion Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) is now open!  These are great events to consider if you are interested in adhesion-related problems. Please refer to the details below, and we look forward to seeing you this July in Massachusetts. 

Science of Adhesion Grodon Research Seminar (GRS) - Harnessing Adhesion Science: Translating Research Advances to Novel Applications

Dear Colleagues, 29th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM-29) will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia,  September 15-18, 2019. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a session on Functional and Architectured Materials  

A post-doctoral position is immediately available in a research group by Prof. Kyoungsoo Park at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. The successful applicant should have strong research background on computational fracture mechanics associated with cohesive zone modeling, contact mechanics, microstructure computation, hygro-thermo-mechanical analysis, parallel computing or related research area. Specific research direction can be discussed. If interested, please contact Dr.

We are looking for a talented, self-motivated, and enthusiastic student with a BSc or MSc degree in mechanical or materials engineering. Students with strong background in crystal plasticity and computational mechanics are recommended to apply.

Prospective candidates will be assessed based on how well they meet the following criteria:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08891-x We report the discovery of structural coloration emanating in precise register with expanded pigmented chromatocytes.

For more details on the job opportunity, see here
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/recruit/mat_20190329.html

For more details on this ambitious project, see here
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Hundreds-of-years-worth-of-rare-earths-f...

Our Group of High Performance Materials in Enviormental & Civil Engineering Department at Michigan State University has two openings for PhD positions to work on Multiscale Modeling or Experimental Charachterization of Soft Materials starting Fall 2019.

Soft, Body-Integrated Microsystems Technologies

Franklin Institute Symposium honoring Dr. John A. Rogers 

Recipient of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics at Drexel University is organizing an International Symposium on Additive Manufacturing on Friday, April 12, 2019.

The subject of the meeting is Multi-Dimensional 3-4-D Printing of Metallic Materials

https://4dprinting.mem.drexel.edu/

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2019.1582850

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Full text here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330832350_Dynamic_Rupture_Propagation_on_Fault_Planes_with_Explicit_Representation_of_Short_Branches

Published in Physcal Review Letters: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.045502. Many materials are anisotropic. However, there is no widely accepted measure for characterizing the degree of elastic anisotropy. Here, assuming that the limiting case of extreme anisotropy should possess a positive semidefinite stiffness matrix, we propose three criteria to evaluate measures of anisotropy and show that the existing measures in the literature do not satisfy all of the proposed criteria.

Periodic systems have attracted a lot of attention in science and engineering due to the existence of band gaps in their frequency spectra. Here, we study the flexural wave propagation in beams that are periodically connected in parallel and investigate how the contrast in the material and cross-sectional properties may affect the band structure of these systems and their dispersion properties.

PhD positions are open immediately in Advanced Hierarchical Materials by Design Labat Louisiana Tech Universityon multiscale modeling of materials under extreme conditions. This will be a collaborative project with MIT, Georgia Tech, and Idaho National Labthat is supported by Department of Energy.  The candidates must have earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering or related fields (applicants with a MSc will be given priority) and have a solid background in theoretical and computational mechanics.

WBDC 2019- International Workshop on Big Data and Computing

http://www.iwbdc.org/com.html

The conference flyer including the detail information  is attached.  

https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805665 Computational modeling and simulations play an integral role in the bottom‐up design and characterization of graph‐n‐yne materials. Here, the state of the art in modeling α‐, β‐, γ‐, δ‐, and 6,6,12‐graphyne nanosheets for synthesizing graph‐2‐yne materials and 3D architectures thereof is discussed.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08813-x We report a transfer approach using paraffin as a support layer, whose thermal properties, low chemical reactivity and non-covalent affinity to graphene enable transfer of wrinkle-reduced and clean large-area graphene.

Dear Colleague,

The third edition of my textbook Engineering Dynamics:  A Primer, has just been published by Springer and is freely accessible to faculty and students at

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030117443

We are looking for a candidate with a Ph.D. degree to study fracture problems in bimetallic pipelines,  API X65 internally clad with alloy 625. The project has direct application to offshore exploration in Brazil deepwater fields. The project is going to be funded by the Petrobras company. The chosen candidate will develop a parametric model to model the welded joint of this type of pipes using python/Abaqus, being the numerical model as close as possible to the real geometry.

Only for citizens of the following countries: US, Canada, European Union, Switzerland, Norway and Russia.

More information here:

http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-oubei-s/index.html

Let me know if you are interested before 20th March 2019, I could act as a host.

The Nanomechanics Simulations Laboratory at the Technion (Haifa, Israel) is seeking applicants for a computational study on nucleation-controlled plasticity. Immediate openings are available for Ph.D. students in several projects. In these projects, you will develop models for the strength of specimens at the nanoscale, to account for the effect of temperature and lattice defects on the nucleation-controlled strength.

Postdoctoral Fellowship-Machine Learning & Health Analytics in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut

About University of Connecticut:

Dear iMechanica readers,

We have an internship position openings in Schlumberger-Doll research in Cambridge Massachusetts, focusing on material science and mechanics of material. Please see the attached job description for more details. If you are interested, please send your applications (resume, coursework transcripts, a presentation not exceeding 20 pages) to the contact scientist Meng Qu (mqu@slb.com). Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who you think may be interested too.

Thank you.

Regards,

I am pleased to share our recent paper on the growth and coalescence of voids in HCP single crystals (Balaji Selvarajou, Shailendra P. Joshi, Amine Benzerga). 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509618307300 

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