fracture

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit an abstract to MS 335: Friction, Fracture, and Damage; a minisymposium that will take place as part of the upcoming US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Chicago, IL June 4th -9 th 2018). Abstract Deadline: Nov 10th :http://sites.northwestern.edu/usnctam2018/

Ahmed Elbanna, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas at Austin

We have an immediate opening for a research assistant in the Mech Engng department at IISc Bangalore. 

Requirements:

• Strong background in Finite element methods
• Skill in C++ programming
• Masters degree with specialization in computational mechanics, applied mathematics or related areas.
• Open only to Indian citizens.

Interested candidates satisfying all the above requirements can write to

rram at mecheng dot iisc dot ernet dot in

Exposure to fracture mechanics is a plus. 

Link to the slides and hand-written notes: http://hdl.handle.net/10993/31585

Aalto University (Finland), Department of Mechanical Engineering, is looking for a doctoral student for a study on the breakage and fragmentation of ice blocks under compressive loads. The fragmentation process is complicated and requires the use of novel modelling methods that can be used reliably on different scales. In addition to the computational work, we will perform experiments on this topic. We start the work using our inhouse FEM-DEM code (other approaches can be also used), while the experiments will be performed in the cold room of our department.

We in Aalto Univeristy (Finland), Department of Mechanical Engineering, look for a post doc to join our group for a study on the breakage and fragmentation of ice blocks under compressive loads. The fragmentation process is complicated and requires the use of novel experiments and numerical models, and in this research, you will be working on both. The unique experiments on this topic will be performed in the cold room of the department.  Numerical modelling will be done on a variety of scales.

Sandra Korte-Kertzel, Peter Gumbsch and I are organizing a Symposium on the Fundamentals of Fracture

at the joint meeting of the German and European Physical Societies (DPG and EPS) in Berlin, March 11-13 2018.

The School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) to develop computational models of ultra-flexible 2D nanomaterials in sheared liquids, using techniques borrowed from computational fluid and solid mechanics.

Dear Colleagues,