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The new book "Modeling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology" (CISM book series, Springer) has been published: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-20377-1

Editors: Paggi, Marco (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy), Hills, David (University of Oxford)

The following position is not longer available

Applications are solicited for a PhD position, based at the Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine, University of Sheffield, UK, starting October, 2019.

Application deadline: January 23, 2019

Fully-funded scholarships are available on a competitive basis. 

Please see the attachment for further details regarding the position and the application process. 

We present a unified classical treatment of partially constrained elastic rods. Partial constraints often entail singularities in both shapes and reactions. Our approach encompasses both sleeve and adhesion problems, and provides simple and unambiguous derivations of counterintuitive results in the literature. Relationships between reaction forces and moments, geometry, and adhesion energies follow from the balance of energy during quasistatic motion. We also relate our approach to the configurational balance of material momentum and the concept of a driving traction.

I strongly recommend reading these two papers about the recent loss of Ken L Johnson, FRS, Timoshenko Medallist, Gold Tribology Medal, who died the day of my 45th birthday, exactly twice as old.

Rod Smith Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society · August 2016 Kenneth Langstreth Johnson. 19 March 1925 — 21 September 2015 DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.2016.0012   

Advanced Course at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM, Udine, Italy)

Modelling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology

May 28, 2018 — June 1, 2018 

Coordinators:

Marco Paggi (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy)

David A. Hills (University of Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain)