The Computational Physics Group at the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame is seeking a highly qualified candidate for the post-doctoral research associate position in Computational Mechanics. The successful candidate will develop and implement multiscale computational approaches for modeling of chemo-thermo-mechanical response of heterogeneous materials such as energetic materials and solid propellants.

Qualifications:

US National Aeronautics and Space Administration
British National Space Centre
European Space Agency
China National Space Administration (English) (Chinese)
National Space Development Agency of Japan
India Space Research Organisation
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

The conferences/seminars I attended that relate to the behaviour of energetic composite materials.

This blog is on catastrophic behaviors in nature.

Energetic materials, such as solid propellants and high explosives, can be considered as composite materials with energetic particles embedded in polymeric binder matrix. These energetic materials display strong particle size effects. For example, large particles debond earlier than small ones in high explosives.