My colleague Juan José Ródenas has posted this interesting PhD position:

Position for a Marie-Curie PhD student in Computational Mechanics at Valencia, Spain.

Preseselection closing date 31 January 2012

1 position for a Marie Curie PhD
Salary(aprox): 37,000€/year living allowance + 9,000€/year mobility allowance
Contact:  Juan José Ródenas ( jjrodena@mcm.upv.es), Eugenio Giner (eginerm@mcm.upv.es)

华中科技大学力学系诚聘海内外英才

These positions have been filled.

2 PhD Fellowships Fully Funded available £33138 per annum at Cardiff iMAM. Closing date:


13 February 2012

1 Post-Doc £50,467 per annum + monthly mobility allowance. Closing date:


13 February 2012

Application details: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs/engin/marie-curie-early-stage-researchers-... for PhD fellowships and http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs/engin/marie-curie-experienced-researcher-4... for Post-Docs

See attachment for details.

There is an open position in the Advanced Tire Technology department in Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations (www.bridgestone-firestone.com). Please see the attached flyer for details and send resume, if interested, to bfpd@bfusa.com

Dear colleagues:

We are looking for a Ph.D. candiate to join the group of Applied Mechanics and Bioengineering  at the University of Zaragoza. The four-year PhD fellowships cover the full tuition, a monthly stipend, and health insurance. 

（本招聘广告有效期至2012年12月31日）PDF of this file

为了更好地聚集海外优秀人才、培养国际一流的青年学者、及借此加快建设世界高水平大学的进程，西安交通大学建立了一个新型的、采用美国先进的用人和科研体制管理的研究中心---“国际应用力学中心” International Center for Applied Mechanics (ICAM)。该中心的目标是聚集和培养一流人才，产出一流学术成果，打造国际一流的力学学科。ICAM以独立的tenure-track PI为本，将重点研究国际力学前沿问题及国家重大需求中的关键力学问题，承担国家级的重点和重大项目，并开展高层次国际合作与交流。

ICAM是西安交通大学的一个独立的学术机构，参照美国常春藤盟校的高效和高度扁平化的科研管理体制。中心的学术带头人为国际著名的中青年力学家锁志刚、高华健、陈曦、刘子顺等西安交通大学杰出校友。中心的国际学术顾问包括Hutchinson，Willis，Needleman等世界力学大师。在他们的指导和引领下，ICAM将汇集和激励青年学者成长为有国际影响力的国家级人才。作为西安交通大学机械结构强度与振动国家重点实验室的一个“学术特区”，中心的人才招聘、薪酬、考核、评估、管理与运行等均参照美国的先进体制进行。ICAM实行独立的tenure-track PI制度，使得青年科研人员能够最大限度地发挥其创造力和主导作用，在国际著名学者的指引和激励下快速成长为具有国际能见度的一流学者（且不存在成长的上限）。ICAM将给每位tenure-track PI配备相应的独立的实验室空间和科研平台建设费，研究生招生和国际交流计划单列（不受传统名额限制）。中心的运行模式、人员岗位、人才培养和经费预算等均具有高度灵活性，可为每位tenure-track PI量身定制其发展轨迹。中心充分鼓励有共同兴趣的研究组在中心内部开展全面合作，并大力支持PI和校内外的其它学科（如机械、能动、电子电气、材料、航空航天、土木、生物生医、物理、化学等）的国际国内学者开展广泛的交叉研究。在学校的鼎力支持和中心全体人员的共同努力下，力争在较短时间内将ICAM建设成一个具有鲜明学科交叉特色、拥有世界一流研究水准和较高国际影响力的力学研究中心、成为国际力学学科前沿的领头羊之一。

Fully funded Ph.D. positions are available in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. The research focus will be on developing and using multiscale methods for modeling nanocomposites and nanomaterials. Candidates should have a BS or MS degree in
mechanical engineering, material science, civil engineering or other related
areas. Computational experience at the continuum or molecular level is
preferred but is not necessary.  Interested
candidates please send a CV to atabarra@uncc.edu

Dear all,

I am Amalya Khurshudyan from Yerevan State University, Armenia. In
2009 I finished my Bachelor Study and I wrote Bachelor Research thesis
for Diploma "The propagation of harmonic waves in thermoelastic plate"
under advise of Academician, Prof. Vladimir Sargsyan and Prof. Samvel
Sargsyan at Department of Mechanics of Faculty of Mathematics and
Mechanics of Yerevan State University.

In the middle of May 2011 I
finished My Master study and wrote a thesis "The determination of the
stress-strain state in the first boundary value problem for a layer with
general anisotropy in its plane by asymptotic methods" at the same
Department under advise of Academician, Prof. Lenser Aghalovyan.

   As for my previous work, I was doing a research on fatigue prediction methods. The
program, which I wrote, was capable of predicting residual life for the tower crane
structures in real-time. The core of it consisted of the Palmgren-Miner rule and data
for S-N curves. Neural networks through the data recorded by an on-board
computer (logger) generated stress ranges. The main advantage of using neural networks
in this case is the possibility of processing huge amounts of information.
Due to recent changes in EN 13000 all the mobile cranes ought to be equipped with loggers
thereby offered solution could be of interest.
The future developments could be done by means of a model-updating technique. As the