Start Date: 1st September 2016
Duration: 4 years
Stipend: Tax free stipend of £18,000 per year, plus all tuition fees paid at UK/EU rates.
Supervisors: Dr Jose Curiel-Sosa (Dept of Mechanical Engineering), Dr Kevin Kerrigan and Dr Vaibhav Phadnis (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre).
Applications deadline: 7th December 2015.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI) will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, during 24 – 29 July, 2016. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a mini-symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis of Thin Films and Multilayer Structures (MS962) which will touch on recent advances in modeling and analysis of thin films and multilayer structures.
Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to)
Michael McAlpine (University of Minnesota) and Xuanhe Zhao (MIT) will receive the 2015 EML Young Investigator Award honoring the best paper published in Extreme Mechanics Letters by a young scientist in 2014 or 2015. Michael is being recognized for his paper, "Pyro-paraelectricity,” which was published in the March 2015 issue of the journal. Xuanhe is awarded for the paper, "Predicting Fracture Energies and Crack-Tip Fields of Soft Tough Materials,” which was published in the September 2015 issue of the journal.
Tough bonding of hydrogels to diverse non-porous surfaces
Hyunwoo Yuk, Teng Zhang,Shaoting Lin, German Alberto Parada & Xuanhe Zhao
Nature Materials (2015) doi:10.1038/nmat4463
This work has been recently published in Nature Nanotechnology.
A fully funded PhD scholarship exists in the area of mechanics of materials, endowed in honour of Prof M F Ashby. The successful applicant will have a 1st class degree (and ideally a Masters degree) in an appropriate field. The precise topic of the PhD can be fixed after the scholarship has been awarded.
Further details may be obtained from Ms H A Gardner (has22 [at] cam.ac.uk (has22[at]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk)) .
Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) is turning 1. Come and join us for a reception to celebrate the 1st anniversary of EML during the 2015 MRS Fall Meeting. See the attached reception flyer for details. All are welcome!
Location: Sheraton Boston Hotel, Gardner, 3rd Floor
Address: 39 Dalton St, Boston, MA 02199
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
The interaction of dislocations with precipitates is an essential strengthening mechanism in metals, as exemplified by the superior high-temperature strength of Ni-base superalloys. Here we use atomistic simulation samples generated from atom probe tomography data of a single crystal superalloy to study the interactions of matrix dislocations with a gamma' precipitate in molecular dynamics simulations.
Position Description: Multiple postdoctoral associate positions in the area of advanced synthesis and nano/micro-scale characterization of nanoparticles and nanocomposites are available at Rice University. Various techniques will be applied to synthesize and self-assemble size- and shape-controlled (calcium) silicate-polymer nanoparticles followed by nano- and micro-characterizations including a myriad of probes such as electron microscopies (TEM, XRD, SEM, AFM), ICP, XPS, NMR, porosimetry, dynamic mechanical analysis, nanoindentation, etc.
