Employment Opportunity :: Computational Modeling of Energy Materials
Dear All,
Prof. Nikhil Koratker , Editor of CARBON, is a world-renowned researcher in the field of energy research. Please visit his homepage for detail.
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PhD opportunities at recently funded a €25 million Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI).
5 PhD Opportunities in Composite Materials and Structural Testing in Marine Renewable Energy
The PhDs are being funded at the National University of Ireland, Galway as part of the SFI Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Centre, starting from September/October this year.
The positions are as follows:
1. Application of Low-Cost, High Performance Thermoset Materials to Marine Renewable Energy Device Structures
2. Application of Low-Cost, Reactive Thermoplastic Materials to Marine Renewable Energy Device Structures
Call for Abstracts: Track 10-23 on “Mechanics of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials” at IMECE 2013(San Diego, Nov 15-21)
Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to Track 10-23 on “Mechanics of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials” at the ASME IMECE 2013, to be held Nov. 15-21, 2013, in San Diego, CA.
Maximal energy that can be converted by a Dielectric Elastomer Generator
Mechanical energy can be converted to electrical energy by using a dielectric elastomer generator. The elastomer is susceptible to various modes of failure, including electrical breakdown, electromechanical instability, loss of tension, and rupture by stretch. The modes of failure define a cycle of maximal energy that can be converted. This cycle is represented on planes of work-conjugate coordinates, and may be used to guide the design of practical cycles.
Mechanics of Materials Research Impacts US Aluminum Industry, Energy, and Environment
Initially posted on Applied Mechanics News on 28 April 2007.
Hot rolling from ingot is the dominant fabrication method of producing plate, sheet, and foil aluminum products. It is a striking fact that the total rolling-plant recovery of aluminum process from ingot to final products is typically about 50%. This recovery loss causes enormous amount of energy waste both as remelt energy and energy to process material that is just recycled. Assuming the annual US domestic net shipments of sheet and plate products being 10,500 million lb, 10% improvement of the hot rolling recovery will result annual savings of $126 million per year for the US domestic aluminum industry. The annual domestic energy savings would be 2.54 trillion Btu. The environmental benefits include annual reduction of 2.32 million lb SOx , 1.01 million lb NOx, 303.2 million lb CO2, 0.67 million lb of particulate, and 11000 lb VOCsd .
The fundamental inability to reduce or eliminate these recovery losses is “lack of the integrated models that relate structural properties to manufacturing processes”. Currently, processing parameters are determined by trial and error and largely based on experience. This makes it difficult to optimize the process even on the macroscale level, and almost impossible from microstructure level. Research in the following areas are desirable: