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The Bazant group at MIT Chemical Engineering (http://bazantgroup.mit.edu/) is looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Associate in the area of experimental characterization of batteries. Candidates who are skilled in battery electrode/cell manufacturing, battery analyzing, electrode material characterization, and acoustic and/or mechanical assessments are encouraged to apply by sending a CV to Dr. Juner Zhu (zhujuner@mit.edu).

Additive manufacturing of metal alloys yields great potential for the aerospace industry (and others) as it allows the generation of geometrically complex structures with high specific strength, low density and high corrosion resistance.

Over the last years, UGent-MMS has developed the stand-alone BladeMesher software for generating finite element models of large wind turbine blades. The software reads in the material data and airfoil data of the wind turbine blade, and automatically constructs the geometry and finite element mesh for the blade. In a next step, the nodal and element information of the finite element mesh is written out to an input file for a commercial finite element solver (Abaqus in this case).

A PhD student position in the field of mechanics is available in the Department of Mechanical and Product Design Engineering at the Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia). The project will focus on developing a new energy-absorbing metamaterial, incorporating the synergistic effect of shear-thickening fluid (STF) and cellular structures, for improved mechanical performance under different loading conditions.

Prior experience with finite element methods and impact testings is highly preferred.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins 

High-Throughput Experiments for AI-Driven Design of Materials

Dear colleagues

in attach you find a call for invited professors from Ukraine at the Politecnico di BARI in Italy for 3 months with full expenses and salary covered.  

DEADLINE IS 15th of MARCH!

Greetings, Michele Ciavarella

PS I think it is useful to report the initiative on researchgate, which has a link in which over 1000 researchers from all over the world have listed available positions such as phd or post-doc or other

A postdoc position in the field of computational mechanics is available in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. The project will focus on developing a systematic integration between experiment, crystal plasticity, finite element method (FEM), or peridynamic implementation of crystal plasticity to find an optimized microstructure for a given lattice structure topology to improve mechanical property under different loading conditions.

This work deals with the small oscillations of two circular cylinders immersed in a viscous stagnant fluid. A new theoretical approach based on an Helmholtz expansion and a bipolar coordinate system is presented to estimate the fluid forces acting on the two bodies. We show that these forces are linear combinations of the cylinder accelerations and velocities, through viscous fluid added coefficients. To assess the validity of this theory, we consider the case of two equal size cylinders, one of them being stationary while the other one is forced sinusoidally.

Greetings everybody

Almost everything is in the title, here are some extra details. The salient point is that the paper submission is now open, and we warmly encourage you to have students and colleagues attend the conference by submitting new (or delayed) papers.

The deadline for submission is the 15th of April. 

There are two open Ph.D. positions fully funded in the Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Machine Learning (M4L) Laboratory at Villanova University. The positions start as early as Fall 2022. The successful applicants will work with Dr. David Cereceda on interdisciplinary research topics that involve Computational Mechanics, Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Machine Learning.

2022 International Symposium on Structural Integrity
Changsha, China, October 14-16, 2022

The 2022 International Symposium on Structural Integrity (ISSI2022) will be held at Changsha, China, by Changsha University of Science and Technology, during October 14-16, 2022. The predecessor of the annual symposium, Fracture Mechanics series, took place each year from 2003 to 2009, was renamed as Structural Integrity series after 2010, and organized by China Structural Integrity Consortium (CSIC).

The theme of ISSI2022 is “Structural Integrity of Critical Infrastructure”. The aim of this symposium is hence to bring together people from both academic and industrial communities to exchange ideas and network friendship by discussing emerging structural integrity issues related to critical infrastructure, where papers toward are mostly welcome.

You are cordially invited to attend the symposium, to meet and network colleagues and friends and enjoy your stay in Changsha, China.

Prof. Shan-Tung Tu
Chairman of Symposium Series
East China University of Science and Technology

Prof. Jian Chen
ISSI2022 Executive Chairman
Changsha University of Science and Technology

The Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering (MPE) at Aarhus University is expanding its research and teaching activities in the field of “Materials Engineering” and invites applications for two Tenure-track Assistant / Associate Professor position within the Section of “Mechanics and Materials”.

Curious to explain Earth and Sea evolution?  Have a solid physical/mathematical/mechanical/computational background?

We are delighted to announce that the 24th International Conference on Wear of Materials will take place in majestic Banff, Alberta, Canada from 16-20 April 2023.

Dear colleagues,

it is our great pleasure to announce the third International Teaching Staff Week of the Simulation Science Center Clausthal-Göttingen. The event will take place online from March 21 to 25, 2022. During the Teaching Staff Week, lecturers from abroad will offer courses in the field of simulation for material sciences. This year, the lecturers and topics are as follows:

Dear all,

There is a vacancy at the TU Delft for a position of PhD cantidate in the field of sustainable structural concrete. Full add is available at: https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/detai...

A postdoctoral position in Engineering Optimization is available at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. The position is for one year and can be extended for up to 30 months. It is funded by Czech Science Foundation project No. 22-15524S. The postdoctoral candidate will work on an engineering optimization project with applications in structural dynamics.

Spider silk is an incredible material!
Check out our new paper at Physical Review Letters:

Dear Colleagues,

We are still inviting submissions to our thematic session on ‘Multiphysics Problems’ at the 42nd Solid Mechanics Conference (SOLMECH) combined with the 24th Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics in Swinoujscie (Poland), September 5-8, 2022 http://cmm-solmech.ippt.pan.pl/index.html . Please see more details in the attached PDF.

Liquid Nanofoam: Past, Present and Future

Mingzhe Li and Weiyi Lu

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University

1. Introduction

EMI 2022 Conference

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland – May 31- June 3

Register Early

and take advantage of the discount!

At this time, we are planning for EMI 2022 to be a 100% in-person event.  

The motion of filament-like structures in fluid media has been a topic of interest since long. In this regard, a well known slender body theory exists wherein the fluid flow is assumed to be Stokesian while the filament is modeled as a Kirchhoff rod which can bend and twist but remains inextensible and unshearable. In this work, we relax the inextensibility and unshearability constraints on filaments, i.e., the filament is modeled as a special Cosserat rod.

Fully Funded Phd Position in Computational mechanics, fatigue and fracture in composite materials at Michigan Technological University