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Job Description

Responsibilities: You will closely collaborate with Schlumberger design engineers in US, Europe, and Asia. You will be performing FEA studies in technically challenging areas such as non-linear solid mechanics, metal plasticity, viscoelastic materials, shock, vibration, heat transfer, composites, and fluid/structure interactions. You will also need to present FEA results to various internal or external clients.

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Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a symposium on “Fatigue and Fracture Under Extreme Environments” at the SEM XIII International Congress meeting which is taking place at Orlando, FL from June 6-9, 2016.

This symposium will focus on the following themes:

Available online 4 August 2015

In Press, Accepted Manuscript — Note to user

Recrystallization is one of the most important physical phenomena in condensed matter that has been utilized for materials processing for thousands of years in human history. It is generally believed that recrystallization is thermally activated and a minimum temperature must be achieved for the necessary atomic mechanisms to occur. Here, using atomistic simulations, we report a new mechanism of dynamic recrystallization that can operate at temperature as low as T = 10 K in metals during deformation.

The 2014 Drucker Medal paper by Professor Lallit Anand (MIT) is published in the November, 2015 issue of JAM.  The paper is attached.

The point group symmetry of materials is closely related to their physical properties and quite important for material modelling. However, superlattice materials have more complex symmetry conditions than crystals due to their multilevel structural feature. Thus, a theoretical framework is proposed to characterize and determine the point group symmetry of non-magnetic superlattice materials systematically. A variety of examples are presented to show the symmetry features of superlattice materials in different dimensions and scales.

PhD/Postdoctoral Positions in the areas of computational mechanics and/or soft tissue biomechanics are available in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Overall, we look for candidates with strong background in experimental and/or numerical methods, excellent programming skills, and experience with high performance computing.

More information can be found at  http://cbrl.lab.uic.edu/positions/

PhD student in Numerical modelling of fretting fatigue crack propagation

• Last application date: 1^st of February 2016 

• Department: Soete Laboratory

• Contract type: Limited duration (4 years)

• Occupancy rate: 100%

• Vacancy type: Research staff

One PhD studentship position is available at Soete Laboratory - Ghent University, Belgium.

Self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules into various supramolecular nano-structural aggregates has drawn the attention of chemists, physicists, and engineers in recent decades.

Cracks generate the largest strain gradients that any material can withstand. Flexoelectricity (coupling between strain gradient and polarization) must therefore play an important role in fracture physics. Here we use a self-consistent continuum model to evidence two consequences of flexoelectricity in fracture: the resistance to fracture increases as structural size decreases, and it becomes asymmetric with respect to the sign of polarization. The latter phenomenon manifests itself in a range of intermediate sizes where piezo- and flexoelectricity compete.