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Moving to Bluesky

Submitted by oliver oreilly on

Dear Colleague,

 

If you have an account on Bluesky posting about mechanics and academic life, please reach out to me 

 

https://bsky.app/profile/oliveroreilly.bsky.social

 

If you are already there, please reach out. I hope in time, there will be a community of mechanicans on Bluesky sharing posts and thoughts about their academic lives and research.

 

Best wishes,

Oliver

 

Multiple postdoc opportunities at the Air Force Research Laboratory

Submitted by matthew.grasinger on

Blue Halo, in support of the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), has multiple exciting postdoc opportunities in computational mechanics (available to US citizens). Interested candidates should visit the link(s) below for more information, and to send their CV / cover letter.

Transporting cylinders of compressed gas

Submitted by oliver oreilly on

A common, yet hazardous, method of transporting cylindrical tanks used to carry compressed gas involves rolling both tanks at opposite angles of inclination to the vertical. By propelling one of the tanks while maintaining point contact between the tanks, both tanks can be moved such that their centers of mass move in a straight line as demonstrated in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgn5fv__LAk

In a paper that has just been published

Journal Club for Nov 2024: Manufacturing, Testing, and Actuation of Origami-Based Metamaterials

Submitted by diego.misseroni on

Diego Misseroni

Laboratory for the Design of Reconfigurable Metamaterials & Structures, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy

 

Introduction

2nd Workshop on Thermodynamics of Fatigue Process - online on November 13

Submitted by pragtic on

Get ready on Wednesday November 13, 2024 at 14:30, when the event starts online. Access to it is completely free, you must only register (and accept that your name and your home institution will be listed among participants).

Open Presidential Faculty Fellow Positions in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston

Submitted by Theocharis on

The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) invites applications for two Presidential Frontier Faculty positions at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured early Associate Professor, depending on the qualifications of the successful candidates, with appointments beginning in Fall 2025. The Presidential Frontier Faculty program at UH is a university-wide, integrated, interdisciplinary faculty hiring initiative designed to address pressing federal priorities and societal challenges.