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Journal Club Theme of January 2015: Topology Optimization for Materials Design

Submitted by Jamie Guest on
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Topology optimization
materials design
Inverse Homogenization
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Processing technologies are rapidly advancing and manufacturers now have the ability to control material architecture, or topology, at unprecedented length scales. This opens up the design space and provides exciting opportunities for tailoring material properties through design of the material’s topology. But as seen many times in history with advancements in materials and processing technologies, the natural default is to rely on familiar shapes and structure topologies.

One PhD student position at Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron, OH

Submitted by ShenShang on
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Composites
inverse problems
PHD position
multiscale stochastic finite element method

Recruiting PhD students at University of Akron, Department of Civil Engineering. Intelligent Structural Engineering and Health Monitoring Group

Our website: http://isehm.mech.uakron.edu/

Research Area:Stochastic Modeling of Composite Materials, Inverse Problems, Experimental Mechanics.

Scholarship program is available for suitable candidate. 

Ph.D. in seismology and geodynamics at ETH Zurich

Submitted by pippo on
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Seismology
computation
inverse problems
geology
geophysics

The institute of Geophysics of ETH Zurich is seeking a highly motivated Ph.D. candidate to be working in the domain of seismic imaging of the Earth's interior. Global seismic tomography is a relatively young discipline that rose to prominence in the 1980s and

Journal Club Theme of March 1: Measuring Cellular Tractions

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cellular tractions

Cell tractions are the outcome of the complex process of cytoskeletal force generation that cell uses to maintain structural stability, to sense the physical environment and to propel itself.  We are only now beginning to understand the process of cytoskeletal force generation, and we cannot yet say much about the losses in transmission through focal adhesion/integrin complexes (attachment ‘islands’ at the cell-substrate interface), but we can definitely measure the tractions that result from cytoskeletal force generation.  The mechanics behind the measurement method might be of interest to the wider audience of iMechanica, as it involves an interesting inverse problem and different solution methods that have incited lively discussions in past years.

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