According to the Swedish Plant Inspectorate the major part of all reported fracture related failures in Sweden are due to stress corrosion. I guess it is more or less a reality everywhere. The association with accidents is probably because it comes without warning and usually at surprisingly low loads. Just a mm sized spot of decomposing grease is enough to create a locally extremely acid environment. In an otherwise friendly environment this often not even considered as a possibility by the designer.

The paper for this discussion is:

Announcement of a Postdoctoral Research Associate Position

In Structural Health Monitoring

Texas A&M University at Qatar
 

Phd student position in 'Multiscale Modelling for Optimum Processing of Polymer-Graphene Nanocomposites' currently exists in the Nanocomposites Modelling Group at the International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing (IINM) (University of Warwick,

Mini-Symposium: 104 Modeling of Vascular Tissue

http://13.usnccm.org/MS104

Mini-Symposium Organizers: Arun Srinivasa (asrinivasa [at] tamu.edu) & Sevan Goenezen (sgoenezen [at] mengr-tamu.org), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Description

Orr Early Career Award (ASME Materials Division) 

The Materials Division of ASME is pleased to announce that nominations are being accepted for the Orr Early Career Award. This Early Career Award is given by the Orr Family through the Materials Division of the ASME to recognize early career research excellence in the general area of Failure of Materials, with particular emphasis on experimental, computational, and/or theoretical aspects of fatigue, fracture or creep. 

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

A one-year postdoctoral position is available at the Laboratory of Mechanics & Acoustics, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, France.

The project focuses on image-based identification problems for physical quantities of interest in solid mechanics within the framework of optical measurement methods for complex manufactured materials. The guideline objective is to develop an identification framework for multiscale, heterogeneous and anisotropic media.

More information can be found in the attachment.

Application deadline: February 28th, 2015.

Graduate Research Assistant Positions

Graduate Research Assistant Positions are available for U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents who have completed a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Civil Engineering or a related field and wish to pursue Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Fall 2015. We will also consider outstanding students who have completed their B.S. degree and want to directly pursue their Ph.D. degree starting.

For the purpose of establishing the best practice for homogenization and dehomogenization needed in composites design and manufacturing, cdmHUB launches the Micromechanics Simulation Challenge. After incoporating comments from  academia, industry and commercial software providers, we have finalized the final draft for Level 1 problems, which is attached here with more details can be at https://cdmhub.org/resources/665.