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Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position effective September 1, 2016. This position is part of the strategic expansion intended to support research and teaching activities in the broad areas of structural engineering, structural mechanics and civil engineering materials.
Amit Acharya Marta Lewicka Mohammad Reza Pakzad
In Nonlinearity, 29, 1769-1797
We study a class of design problems in solid mechanics, leading to a variation on the
classical question of equi-dimensional embeddability of Riemannian manifolds. In this general new
context, we derive a necessary and sufficient existence condition, given through a system of total
diff erential equations, and discuss its integrability. In the classical context, the same approach
yields conditions of immersibility of a given metric in terms of the Riemann curvature tensor.
In the present situation, the equations do not close in a straightforward manner, and successive
diff erentiation of the compatibility conditions leads to a more sophisticated algebraic description
of integrability. We also recast the problem in a variational setting and analyze the infi mum value
of the appropriate incompatibility energy, resembling "non-Euclidean elasticity". We then derive a
Γ-convergence result for the dimension reduction from 3d to 2d in the Kirchhoff energy scaling
regime. A practical implementation of the algebraic conditions of integrability is also discussed.
Dear Colleague,
Engineering and Computational Mechanics is currently looking for papers on the theme of Disaster and Hazard engineering for publication in 2014. Sub-topics include risk analysis and pre-emptive disasters.
Other themes EACM is interested in are: Fluid Structure interaction especially ringing phenomenon; Energy and renewable energy including offshore and waves; and review papers covering the themes in the call for papers.
The Dept. of Aerospace Engineering at IIT, Madras has vacancies in the broad areas of Structural Mechanics, Aerodynamics, and Flight Mechanics and Control. For more details visit http://www.iitm.ac.in/faculty-opening. Last date: March 18, 2013.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking candidates for a staff position in Structural Mechanics for Reactor Applications. The full job description follows. Please contact me at crossdr [at] ornl.gov (crossdr[at]ornl[dot]gov) or apply online at http://1.usa.gov/XTm5NN.
Research Associate - Structural Mechanics for Reactor Applications
Purpose
