Will home owners get that sinking feeling this summer?



Are we in for a summer of cracked buildings? It all depends on the weather. Research from the British Geological Survey (BGS) has highlighted the importance of rainfall and temperature on the incidence of clay shrink-swell, a precursor to subsidence, in the UK. For many, the cool, wet conditions we have experienced so far this summer may be just what is needed to keep their house in order.

There are openings for PhD students and Postdocs within the "UT-Dallas Nanobiomechanics Laboratory".

The research topics cover: Nanobiomechanics, scanning Probe microscopy, bioinspired and biomimetic nanomaterials, nanomechanics of living cells and biological systems, nanomanufacturing and microfabrication. The topics are "Experimental" in nature, and prior experimental skills at the nanoscale are highly desirable.

For more details please visit: http://me.utdallas.edu/people/Minary.html

Ares J. Rosakis, Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, is the recipient of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) 2013 P.S. Theocaris Award.  This award recognizes a senior professional who is a Fellow of SEM and who has conducted outstanding research throughout his career in the field of experimental mechanics.

Professor Zhigang Suo will give the Thurston Lecture at the IMECE 2012 meeting, Houston, 10am-noon, 11/14/2012, Wednesday.

TitanX is strengthening its numerical simulation capabilities. As part of this process, we are looking for two additional FE Analysts.

Please, give a look to my research activity at: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/



If you are strongly motivated to work with a very active group (http://ssmg.unitn.it) in Solid Mechanics, we have a post-doc position for 2 years available not before October 2012.



The position is on a EU grant (http://intercer2.unitn.it/) and is addressed to constitutive/numerical/theoretical modelling of ceramics.

Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral position in Isogeometric Analysis at the University of Pavia.