The Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) is a new research centre at the 
Ruhr­University Bochum, Germany. At ICAMS an interdisciplinary team of scientists from engineering, 
materials science, chemistry, physics and mathematics is working on the development and application 
of a new generation of simulation tools for multi­scale materials modelling. 

The
Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) is
a new research centre at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. At
ICAMS an interdisciplinary team of scientists from engineering,
materials science, chemistry, physics and mathematics is working on
the development and application of a new generation of simulation
tools for multi-scale materials modelling.

Please see the job-announcement attached, for a better format.
PhD or Postdoc position
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) is a new research centre at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. At ICAMS an interdisciplinary team of scientists from engineering, materials science, chemistry, physics and mathematics is working on the development and application of a new generation of simulation tools for multi-scale materials modelling.

Consider a ridig pillar ontop of a elastic substrate. Applying a moment to the pillar will lead to elastic deformation of the substrate. If the pillar is infinitly large in diameter, then this problem is the same as an infinitely sharp crack, considering the symmetry of the crack problem, i.e. there are square root singularities. However, the infinitly large diameter assumtion does not hold if the global rotation of the substrate under the pillar is of interest, because the both sides of the pillar interact.

To identify a coordinate system: If the moment is applied along the y-axis and the z-axis is the axial direction of the pillar, then the maxium stresses in the pillar will be along the x-axis.