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Dear all,

We have two exciting PhD positions at Aarhus University, Denmark.

The common subject is the design of hybrid composite materials for high performance application, but with safety and reliability in mind.

Please follow the links from below for further details (Note, applications only following these links).

https://phd.tech.au.dk/for-applicants/apply-here/saeropslag/design-of-mi...

Eligibility: Due to the project timeline, only students currently residing in the United States are eligible.

Ph.D. research positions are available immediately in the Advanced Infrastruture Materials Research Lab at the University of Miami to perform research in the area of low carbon infrastructure materials. Highly motivated applicants are encouraged to send a CV to Dr. Ali Ghahremaninezhad via email at a.ghahremani@miami.edu.

The Zhao Research Group (https://sites.usc.edu/zhaogroup/) in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California is seeking applications for an immediately available postdoctoral position in soft robotics. The objective of this project is to develop novel dexterous soft robotic manipulators incorporating advanced sensors, actuators, and closed-loop control.

A position exists, for a Research Assistant/Associate in the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University to work on Experimental Mechanics.

Dear Colleagues,

I am sharing a recent paper titled "Violation of the Cauchy-Born Rule in multi-principal element alloys" published in Applied Physics Letters. Here is the link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0204091

The mechanical properties of alloys, and thus their susceptibility to damage and failure, are determined by their chemical composition as well as by their process-dependent microstructure. While microstructural modifications are well-known to improve, e.g., the yield stress or fatigue lifetime by orders of magnitudes, no thorough atomistic methods for systematic high-throughput exploration of the microstructure space have been performed yet. 

We welcome applications for several PhD positions in reactive fluid mechanics for aerospace application. More specifically on the fire resistance of Li-Ion batteries and composites as well as on hydrogen combustion. The PhD position available involve experimental work but can also include a numerical simulation component. The student is therefore expected to carry out laboratory work, data analysis and numerical simulation tasks, with a focus to be identified according to individual interests and qualifications.

We are delighted to announce that the 25th International Conference on Wear of Materials will take place in the beautiful Sitges, Spain from 13-17 April 2025.

Sharing a new article "Finite element implementation of Field Crack Mechanics for brittle and ductile fracture" by my Ph.D. student BVSS Bharadwaja at IIT Bombay, which has been accepted for publication in Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics. Also see attached. Thanks to Prof. Amit Acharya for the motivation and discussion.

It is my pleasure to share a new article titled "An Experimentally Informed Continuum Grain Boundary Model" by Syed Ansari (my Ph.D. student at IIT Bombay). This work was performed in collaboration with Prof. Amit Acharya.

A new funded PhD opportunity is available at the University of Bath. The project is on elastic tailoring of composite winglets on aircraft. 

The opportunity comes with an enhanced stipend (for students who quailfy). 

PhD start date: September 2024. Application deadline is the 30th of May 2024.

More details about the proejct can be found here. 

MARSS, the annual International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales, is a non-profit conference run by the microrobotic community and technically supported by IEEE-RAS and IEEE-NTC. MARSS2024 will be held in-person on July 01-05, 2024, in Delft, Netherlands. The conference is the flagship forum to discuss cross-disciplinary activities on 1) manipulation, automation, measurement, and characterization at micro/nano scales, and 2) all kinds of small-scale robots (nm – cm) and their applications.

A fully-funded Ph.D. position is available in the Control, Automation, and Mechatronics (CAM) lab at Kent State University, Kent, OH, starting in Spring 2025. The program is housed within the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and focuses on Mechatronics Engineering. Ideal candidates will need to have completed their master’s degree by the end of 2024 and must possess a strong foundation in controls, system identification, and machine learning, along with proficient programming skills in Python and MATLAB.

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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt seeks candidates at the earliest possible date for a Full University Professorship (W3) for Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics. We are looking for a scientist with an international reputation and visibility who will represent the field of numerical methods in fluid mechanics in research and teaching.

Dear colleagues, 

We invite you to read our article, which informs one about the extent to which resonances can be tuned in metamaterials. More precisely, our work provides tight bounds correlating the Quality-factor with peak absorption in dielectric metamaterials. The article is published in Applied Physics Letters and can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0155092 

A comprehensive thesis on hydrogen embrittlement authored by Michele De Giosa, Università del Salento, Italy, published exclusively by CYBERNET ⇒ Read Here

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