corrosion

There is an immediate PhD position available in the Reliability and Mechanics of Failure Lab (RMFLab) at George Mason University in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Candidates must have background in corrosion, fatigue, fracture, materials characterizations, and finite element modeling.

Interested candidates, please send letter of interest to mamirida@gmu.edu.

50 days' of free access to the article. Anyone clicking on this link before May 12, 2023, will be taken directly to the latest version of the article on ScienceDirect, which you are welcome to read or download. No sign-up, registration, or fees are required.

The unified mechanics theory (UMT) was used to develop a model to predict the fatigue life of pre-corroded steel samples with BCC structure. Details of the experimental validation are also provided.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.111383

KU Leuven has a full-time academic, professorship, vacancy in the area of corrosion and wear of metallic surfaces at the Ghent Technology Campus.

Dear iMechanicians, I hope that our latest JMPS paper is of interest to you. We show how the phase field paradigm can be extended to model localised corrosion (aqueous electrolyte-solid interface) and the associated damage mechanisms. 

C. Cui, R. Ma, E. Martínez-Pañeda. A phase field formulation for dissolution-driven stress corrosion cracking. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 147, 104254 (2021)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509620304622

Dear all

A PhD position is open at Cirimat lab (Toulouse, France), in collaboration with AIRBUS Helicopters industry, entitled (see enclosed pdf):

Predictive analysis of the corrosion behaviour for aeronautical structural parts in 2024 T3 aluminium alloy

Application forms (CV + letter of motivation) must be sent before tuesday 24 march 2020 at 12:00 am to:

Christine Blanc – +33 5 34 32 34 07 – christine.blanc@ensiacet.fr

<p>The 8th International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis will be held 8-11 July 2018, Budapest, Hungary. We are pleased to announce the oral programme is available to view and download at https://www.elsevier.com/icefa-conference - the ICEFA2018 conference will bring together world-class researchers, users and specialists involved in all aspects of failure analysis and prevention from the fields of mechanical, manufacturing, aeronautical, civil, chemical, corrosion and design engineering.

Novelis is hiring for a Principal Scientist in Atlanta, GA. 

We have a number of open positions in our research group that are available immediately. Summary of the positions are provided below; however, for more information about our research group, please visit 

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~isgorb/

Contact: Dr. Siddiq Qidwai, siddiq.qidwai@nrl.navy.mil

Postdoc Information: http://hroffice.nrl.navy.mil/jobs/postdoc.htm. Note the substantial stipend and benefits.

The Multifunctional Materials Branch of the Materials Science & Technology Division at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC has an interest in postdoctoral associate candidates for several areas in computational mechanics and multiphysics.

Topic of interest include: a) biomechanics of injury at high-rate of deformation at multiple scales, b) multiscale dynamics of flexible armor, c) crystal plasticity and dislocation dynamics in electrically assisted deformation of metals, and d) multiphysics modeling of corrosion.

The book “Corrosion and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries”, edited by Reza Javaherdashti, Chikezie Nwaoha and Henry Tan, has been published by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis LLC, USA.

Hi all,

In the course of our project, we are monitoring the corrosion behavior of steel reinforcement in cracked concrete, while exposed to simulated sea water. Recent results are posted on our blog,  http://microlab-m3c4.blogspot.nl/ ! Be sure to check them out! For more information, you can contact us, or follow us on twitter @MicrolabM3C4.

Cheers!

Call for Papers - deadline 9 December 2011

Submit your abstract here: www.fatiguedamageconference.com 

We welcome poster and abstract submissions on the following topics:

Raiway axle failures have been the starting point for the studies on fatigue. However, recent accidents and papers (see [1] by Hoddinott) have shown that corrosion-fatigue plays a significant role.

At PoliMi we have recently investigated this topic finding interesting results by corrosion-fatigue tests on small-scale specimens and, recently, a validation of the model by full-scale corrosion-fatigue tests (see papers [2-3]).

I am teaching Subsea Integrity for the MSc students majoring in Subsea Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen. This is a course that combines the fundamental principles (corrosion, fracture, fatigue and material selection) with the industry applications (subsea integrity management and implementation, cathodic protection, case studies on subsea reliability and engineering assurance).

Teaching time schedule

The oral presentation program for the 1st International Conference on Abrasive Processes (ICAP-1) is now available at the conference website (www.icap.elsevier.com). Evolving from earlier meetings [the International Conference on Liquid and Solid Impact (ELSI-IX) and the International Conference on Erosive and Abrasive Wear (ICEAW-II)], ICAP-1 will be held in the historic city of Cambridge, England, 21-25 September 2008. You are invited to join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting.

Jeannette M. Jacques, Ting Y. Tsui, Andrew J. McKerrow, and Robert Kraft

To improve capacitance delay performance of the advanced back-end-of-line (BEOL) structures, low dielectric constant organosilicate glass (OSG) has emerged as the predominant choice for intermetal insulator. The material has a characteristic tensile residual stress and low fracture toughness. A potential failure mechanism for this class of low-k dielectric films is catastrophic fracture due to channel cracking. During fabrication, channel cracks can also form in a time-dependent manner due to exposure to a particular environmental condition, commonly known as stress-corrosion cracking. Within this work, the environmental impacts of pressure, ambient, temperature, solution pH, and solvents upon the channel cracking of OSG thin films are characterized. Storage under high vacuum conditions and exposure to flowing dry nitrogen gas can significantly lower crack propagation rates. Cracking rates experience little fluctuation as a function of solution pH; however, exposure to aqueous solutions can increase the growth rate by three orders of magnitude.