A PhD position in the area of kinetic Monte Carlo modeling of interface phenomena is available in the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech. Candidates should be strongly self-motivated individuals possessing a MS degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials science and engineering, or other closely related disciplines, and have demonstrated extensive experience in relevant research areas.

KU Leuven has a full-time academic, professorship, vacancy in the area of corrosion and wear of metallic surfaces at the Ghent Technology Campus.

KU Leuven has a full-time academic, professorship, vacancy in the area of corrosion and wear of metallic surfaces at the Ghent Technology Campus. The successful applicant will be appointed in the Department of Materials Engineering and the Faculty of Engineering Technology of the Science, Engineering and Technology Group of KU Leuven.

We recently proposed a method that uses distance fields to exactly impose boundary conditions in physics-informed neural networks (PINN).  This contribution is available as an arXiv preprint.

Dear colleagues,

Our work on 'Multiscale analysis of elastic waves in soft materials: From molecular chain networks to fiber composites' is published in International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 

Please read here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2021.106433

In this paper, we have examined:

To students and junior researchers,

Together with Stephane Bordas (Luxembourg University) and Alban de Vaucorbeil (Deakin University, Australia), we have assembled a PDF (https://imechanica.org/files/how-to-write-paper_29_Nov_2021.pdf) outlining our our approach to writing articles on the field of computational mechanics. Also discussed are softwares used. We hope that it will be of help to students and junior researchers.

Dr Liya Zhao from the School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, is seeking PhD students to work on projects related to the following topics. Full scholarship will be provided (AUD 28,092/year).

• Small-scale energy harvesting: harnessing renewable energy from vibrations, human motion, wind flows, ocean wave, etc.; developing efficiency enhancement innovations

• Smart structures and systems for vibration/noise suppression (metastructures, adaptive structures with composite smart materials)

Our presentations at the School on Advanced Topics in Computational Mechanics (part of the UK Association of Computational Mechanics 2021 Conference) are now available on the MoFEM YouTube channel (link).

1. Introduction (Lukasz Kaczmarczyk): Sustainable development of research code for complex engineering problems video link

Dear iMechanica colleagues, I am pleased to share with you our newest paper on qauntitative prediction of rapid solidification. S. Kavousi, B. Novak, D. Moldovan, and M. Asle Zaeem. Quantitative prediction of rapid solidification by integrated atomistic and phase-field modeling. Acta Materialia 211 (2021) 116885 (12 pages).

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