Dear colleagues,

the University of Freiburg (Germany) is currently looking for a new
faculty member in the field of Soft Machines. This is a tenure track
position in the Department of Microsystems Engineering. We are looking
for someone to represent research and teaching in the field of machines
made of soft, deformable materials such as gels, elastomers / liquid
crystalline elastomers (LCEs) and responsive materials.

The full job advertisement can be found here:

The Simpleware Product Group at Synopsys are running a webinar on March 2nd on using AI solutions to lift the burden of manual CT inspections for turbine blades.

To learn more and register, please see https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1099136013627123728?source=iM…

Deformation Engineering of Van der Waals Materials

Jin Myung Kim, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

SungWoo Nam, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine

1. Introduction

On behalf of Texas A&M University & Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, we are excited to announce the 2022 Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science that will be held on our campus in College Station, Texas, from October 16-19, 2022.

Applications are invited for a doctoral research position immediately available (also open to Summer 2022, Fall 2022, or Spring 2023) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science Graduate Program at the University of Vermont. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Prof.

Two-year/three-year Postdoc Fellowships are available at Beihang University, starting either at around June 2022 or at Dec. 2022. Beihang University, also known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), has always been ranked No. 1 in Aerospace Engineering among all the universities in China. Our research group led by Professor Leiting Dong is seeking talented and motivated candidates to work on the development of state-of-the-art computational methods and their applications on the analysis and design of complex engineering structures.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position in Modeling for Complex Systems, with a focus on data-dependent methods and application areas highlighted on the webpage given below. The successful candidate will be part of the research program in mathematical modeling and computational & data sciences at the Laurier M3AI Lab and MS2Discovery Institute in Waterloo, Canada. Further information about the position and how to apply can be found at the following website:

I would like to bring your attention to four ASME awards and we welcome your nominations. The deadline is fairly soon on February 1!  

Society awards given by ASME Materials Division:

The Computational Mechanics group at The University of Iowa, led by Professor S. Rahman, is looking for a new Ph.D. student, who is capable of and interested in performing high-quality research on uncertainty quantification for dynamical or time-varying systems. The research, supported by the Department of Energy, requires building a solid mathematical foundation, devising efficient numerical algorithms, and developing practical computational tools, all associated with the stochastic analysis of complex materials and structures.

Following the approach of Griffith, Sneddon and Muskhelishvili calculated the pressure of tear propagation in elastic media. Gent and Lewandowski collected these works and using Hencky's approximation of membrane deformation, introduced a collection of relationships on the debonding of films from substrates by pressure (left panel).