Dear colleagues,

New Assistant Professor position with experimental focus on polymers or polymer matrix composites at TU Delft.

https://vacature.beta.tudelft.nl/vacaturesite/permalink/48891/?lang=en

Examples of areas of interest (not in any particular order):

- polymers or polymer composites under extreme events (high strain-rates, extreme temperatures, fire, radiation, etc.)

- recycling and contributions to circular economy

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The closing date for this job posting is the 10th of September, 2018

PhD Open Positions

PhD positions with financial support in the form of research assistant/teaching assistant are available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut (UConn).

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500839.2018.1515506

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Check out our new work on topography driven surface renewal published in Nature Physics:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0193-x

We are building a new dynamic group at University of Chicago bringing together physicists, surgeons, and engineers to tackle some of the most

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A faculty position in experimental mechanics / materials is available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  The closing date is December 1, 2018.  Please see the attached advertisement for details.

When a clamped membrane of elastomer is subject to a lateral pressure, it bulges into a hemispherical balloon. However, for a clamped membrane of dielectric elastomer (DE) under a lateral pressure as well as a voltage through the thickness, it may bulge into a regular hemispherical balloon or an irregular shape. This work focuses on the anomalous bulging behaviors (i.e. the irregular bulging shape) of a DE balloon under electromechanical coupling loading.

CLOSED

PhD positions are available at the University of Minnesota in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella. The positions are in the general area of mechanics and physics of solids and structures, with emphasis on mechanical metamaterials. Topics of current interest are:

1) Topological metamaterials;

2) Nonlinear waves in metamaterials and architected solids;

3) Tunable and programmable metastructures.