The Institute for General Materials Properties of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is seeking outstanding candidates for the project “microKIc – Microscopic Origins of Fracture Toughness”, which is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Dear Colleagues, if you are interested in the state-of-the-art R&D in composite materials, you might want to attend the American Society for Composites Anuual Meeting at Purdue (10/22-25, 2017). The registeration is open at https://cdmhub.org/groups/asc2017/registration
Dear Mechanician,
A novel method for the identification of higher-order continua equivalent to a Cauchy composite has been published, as a result of the collaboration between the following two ERC projects:
http://erc-instabilities.unitn.it
http://musam.imtlucca.it/CA2PVM.html
Full paper:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2017.07.002
Abstract:
The candidate will work in a project related with smart manufacturing of composite materials by injection/infusion techniques. The project will consist in a joint collaboration between Data Mining Research Group from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and IMDEA Materials Institute.The research activities will be focussed on the application of simulation techniques (computational fluid mechanics) to the optimization of manufacturing process of composite materials by liquid moulding, including the creation of a physical demonstrator.
These two papers have recently been published in Int. J. Mech. Sci. and Acta Mech.:
1) Analytical Models for the Impact of a Solid Sphere on a Fluid-Filled Spherical Shell Incorporating the Stress Wave Propagation Effect and their Applications to Blunt Head Impacts
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020740317308949
2) A non-classical model for an orthotropic Kirchhoff plate embedded in a viscoelastic medium
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7NR04455K Graphene has excellent mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. However, there are limitations in utilizing monolayers of graphene for mechanical engineering applications due to its atomic thickness and lack of bending rigidity. Synthesizing graphene aerogels or foams is one approach to utilize graphene in three-dimensional bulk forms. Recently, graphene with a gyroidal geometry has been proposed.
Load separation curves between self-affine rough surfaces have been studied by means of extensive numerical simulations. The results of the comparison with the two main contact mechanics theories have been reported. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07234-4
Rong Long
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Dear Colleagues,
I thought some of you may be interested in our recent paper which has been accepted to Soft Matter. The article is available online, here:
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/SM/C7SM01245D?page=search
It contains a new model for the fracture of particulate rafts, and some new experimental results as well. Questions are welcome.
One Ph.D. research position is available immediately at Iowa State University’s Mechanical Engineering Department in the area of soft tissue biomechanics. The candidates must be a US Citizen and have earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, or a related field. The selected candidates are expected to start no later than January 2018.
