Multiple Ph.D. students are being sought to fill openings in the Predictive Computational Engineering (PCE) Lab in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. PCE Lab concerns with multidisciplinary research at the intersect of multiscale modeling of materials, physics-based machine learning, and scientific computing.
Several Ph.D. positions are open for Spring/Fall 2020 in the Advanced Hierarchical Materials by Design Lab at Louisiana Tech University on multiscale modeling of additively manufactured parts and processes. During this project, the candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with NASA research centers, national labs, and different universities across the nation.
https://doi.org/10.1680/jgeot.15.P.034
This work, dating back to 2015 demonstrates the simulation of grain morphologies for subsequent fabrication of surrogate geomaterials
Abstract
Additive manufacturing of ceramics from preceramic polymers
Following extensive research by our outstanding doctoral candidate here, Dr. Wang, a publication in the journal Additive Manufacturing is now in press.
A postdoctoral fellow research position is availabe immediately in the Advanced Digital & Additive Manufacturing (ADAM) center at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates. Applicants should demonstrate research capabilities in modeling, experimentation, and testing in the area of additive manufacturing (3D printing). Candidates with research experience related to sandwich panels will be considered with higher priority.
Location
Khalifa University of Science and Technology, main campus, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Website: www.ku.ac.ae
Duration
The position is available from September 2019 for up to 34 months.
About the role
We have one or more postdoc positions available, to be filled immediately, at MIT’s Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, under the direction of Professor Markus Buehler. We are looking for postdocs in two broad areas, as described below.
Position #1: Materials science modeling
We recently presented an original research that uses 3d printing to realise the mimicry of the microstructure observed in crystalline metals to employ crystals’ hardening mechanisms to develop robust and damage-tolerant architected materials (Nature 2019; 565:305 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0850-3).
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2019
Time: 8 am PDT (US West Coast) / 11 am EDT (US East Coast) / 5 pm CEST (Europe)
Duration: 30 min presentations + Q&A
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2018.04.022
1. Critical porosity is estimated in additively manufactured IN718 via crystal plasticity.
2. Porosity is characterized using high resolution tomography.
3. Non-local damage indicator parameters identify the location of fatigue crack initiation.
4. The critical pore size is 20 μm in IN718 with average grain size of 48 μm.
