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PhD Student Position in Mechanical Properties of Materials at the Micron Scale
Job description: We are seeking innovative and highly motivated PhD candidates to join the FROG lab in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Ottawa.
IMECE 2015 Symposium: Modeling and experimental characterization for the behavior of the micro/nanostructured thin films
We would like to invite you to participate in a symposium on “Modeling and experimental characterization for the behavior of the micro/nanostructured thin films” in ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition November 13 – 19, 2015 Houston, Texas. The deadline for abstract submission is March 2, 2015.
Organizers:
Danial Faghihi, Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences,UT Austin
Full scholarships available at European Commission funded workshop on physics based material models in Izmir / Turkey
European Commission' s JRC (Joint Research Centre) is organizing the 3rd workshop on physics based material models and experimental observations (http://iwpmeo.org/) in collaboration with University of Oxford, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung and Middle East Technical University. The workshop will be held in Izmir/Turkey on 2-4 June 2014.
Anomalous plasticity in the cyclic torsion of micron scale metallic wires
Our new paper entitled "Anomalous
plasticity in the cyclic torsion of micron scale metallic wires" has been
accepted by PRL
(see: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.244301)
Stress gradient plasticity
Liu, D., He, Y., Zhang, B., 2013. Towards a further understanding of dislocation pileups in the presence of stress gradients. Doi: 10.1080/14786435.2013.774096
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14786435.2013.774096#preview
