Two PhD positions are currently available in the Computational Laboratory for the Mechanics of Interfaces at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville (http://clmi.utk.edu). Research topics are in the following areas:

1. Modeling of titanium alloys using dislocation density based crystal plasticity finite element method.

2. Thermo-mechanical modeling of damage in fiber-reinforced composite materials using mixture theory.

There is an opening for a post-doc in Prof. Shailendra Joshi’s research group at NUS, starting November 2016, in the area of micromechanics of advanced structural steels. An ideal candidate for this position must possess a PhD in mechanical engineering or related field with a strong background in computational materials mechanics.

The Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems labratory (arashmousavi.net) at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is seeking applications for the M.Sc. program in Mechanical Engineering with a starting date of spring 2017. The funding will be through TA position. 

Required qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering or closely related fields with a GPA of 3 or more.

Preferred qualifications:

The IDM lab at University of California, Merced  (http://www.alaqattawi.net/opportunities) is seeking applications for the PhD program in Mechanical Engineering with a starting date of spring 2017. The research position is in the area of Mechanics & Materials of Origami Metal Structures.

Required qualifications

* A Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Mechanical Engineering or closely related fields with a GPA of 3 or more.

The International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials starts in just under three weeks. Register now to secure your delegate place.

Why Register?

In our new paper published on Science Advances, we carefully measured the elastic mechanical properties of individual silicon nanowires by uniaxial tensile straining under both SEM and high-res optical microscope, and demonstrated that high quality VLS–grown single-crystalline Si nanowires with diameters of ~100 nm can be reversibly stretched at room temperature with 10% or more elastic strain, approaching the theoretical limit of silicon. 

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Join us at the American Society for Composites 31st Technical Conference (Williamsburg, VA) for a hands-on workshop, on September 18, from 7:00–9:00pm, on how to use cdmHUB.org for composites learning, teaching, and research in the cloud. This workshop features an overview of the cdmHUB cyberinfrastructure, and how to use cdmHUB for learning, teaching, and research. We will demonstrate how to use cdmHUB to develop and launch composites simulation tools.

Molecular dynamics (MD) is employed to investigate the plastic deformation mechanisms of single crystalline yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia (YSTZ) nanopillars under uniaxial compression. Simulation results show that the nanoscale plastic deformation of YSTZ is strongly dependent on the crystallographic orientation of zirconia nanopillars. For the first time, the experimental explored tetragonal to monoclinic phase transformation is reproduced by MD simulations in some particular loading directions.

Small-scale mechanics, especially in situ in electron microscopes, is what I enjoy spending my time with. Within this monthly journal club topic on iMechanica, I would like to give a quick recapitulation of what happened in micromechanics, of course with special emphasis to in situ techniques, over the last years to set the stage. Subsequently, we should revisit some longstanding issues before turning towards recent developments in the field of fracture testing.