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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. 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.

PhD Title: 3D printing of Smart Shape Memory Materials for Advanced Sensors and Actuators

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.

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.

Ph.D and Post-doc positions are now open in the Department of Mechanial and Industry Engineering (Mechanics, Biomimetics and 3D printing Lab)  at Northeastern University. Students and researchers with background in solid and structure mechanics, materials science and engineering are welcome to apply! 

If interested, please directly email CV to Professor Yaning Li:  y.li@northeastern.edu

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and talented Academic Associate to contribute to research and teaching in the Department of Engineering at Nottingham Trent University. Most of the teaching will be in the format of seminars, laboratory classes and tutorials. The academic associate post is part-time (0.5 FTE) and in addition, you will be required to register for a PhD part-time for the duration of the 5-year post.

PhD Title: 3D Printing of Smart Shape Memory Materials for Advanced Sensors and Actuators

The day before the SEM Conference this June in Reno, Nevada, USA, we will be teaching a short course entitled Residual Stress 101: https://sem.org/annualprogram. See below for a description of the course. We will cover lots of practical material on residual stresses, much of which is not covered in standard engineering curricula. This is great material for any interested researcher who never got a comprehensive background in residual stress. It will also be great for graduate students or advanced undergrads, and students pay half price.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you about the CISM course

"The Art of Modeling in Computational Solid Mechanics"

coordinated by Jörg Schröder and Peter Wriggers
which takes place in Udine from Oct 7, 2019 - Oct 11, 2019.

The Computational Physics and Mechanics Laboratory (CPML) at Vanderbilt University is seeking one PhD student interested in the area of computational fracture and damage mechanics.

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.

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

The 7th edition of the International Digital Image Correlation (DIC) course will be held in Ghent, Belgium, 1-5 July 2019. There are still a few seats available (total participation limited to 20 to ensure maximum interaction). The course consists of lectures, hands-on data processing sessions and labs (camera set-up, 2D DIC and Stereo-DIC). Details and registration available here.

I need to find a startup file that Abaqus/CAE reads on startup to add a line of Python to modify the behavior the way I like it. I find myself adding this line manually every time I start Abaqus/CAE and I am tired of it. Like the .gpr file but .grp is a binary file--I cannot add things to it with a text editor. It has to be an initialization file, right? Or may be some other way to do it. Thanks in advance. 

I found a great tutorial for abaqus/cae at https://abaqus-docs.mit.edu/2017/English/SIMACAEGSARefMap/simagsa-m-Caeb... but I cannot find the main page, which I need to navigate it; I am forced to Google for individual sections guessing at what the section titles migh be; I need a URL to the root page so I can navigate the tutorial like an ebook. 

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