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. 

The ninth biennial International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials IX will be held in scenic Cape Cod at The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts from the 16 - 21 September 2012.

Register today to book your place at this prestigious conference, which has attracted over 290 abstracts. The conference will bring together delegates from around the world to discuss how to characterize, predict and analyse the fatigue damage of structural materials.

There is an immediate opening for a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T - formerly University of Missouri-Rolla). The Metallurgical Engineering program at Missouri S&T is one of the largest and most respected in the U.S. (http://mse.mst.edu).

The Ph.D. research project is about developing a coupled phase-field crystal plasticity model for predicting stress-strain-microstructures relations during deformation.

Attached herewith a classical paper by Hart on introducing a concept of constant hardness curves refuting that absolute strain should not be considered as a state variable.

The interesting part is he uses a stress relaxation test to prove the same. Stress relaxation test, here refers to a tensile test, where the test is stopped after say certain amount of plastic deformation. The stress drops a little, but the total strain is constant. However, it is argued that there is a small inelastic deformation, which is the cause of this load or stress drop.