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PhD (4 years) on experimental characterization of snap fit joints (Belgium)
Postdoc (3 years) on numerical simulation of composite hydrogen tanks (Belgium)
PhD (4 years) on numerical simulation of composite hydrogen tanks (Belgium)
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a new book in Contact Mechanics... for beginners!
a perspective paper on "simple solutions in contact mechanics" for reviewing my 30 years of career so far
Tenure track Assistant professor/Associate professor Position in Materials Science and Engineering
EML Webinar by Anton Souslov: Non Reciprocity in Materials
Professor (all ranks) Materials, Mechanics, and Processing for Microelectronic Packaging
PhD Position on Machine Learning for Scientific Computing at Rutgers University

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Timoshenko lectures
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Why is rubber incompressible?
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tensor and its invariants
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