The chair of Material- and Process Simulation at the University of Bayreuth is inviting applicants for a PhD position available within the project “Multi-scale modelling for further understanding of the faceting and the orientation-dependent growth of Aluminium nitride bulk crystals in the gas phase” (AIN-Multi-scale modelling) funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft) for a period of three years.

The chair of Material- and Process Simulations at the University of Bayreuth is inviting applicants for a PhD position available within the project “Heterogeneous nucleation and microstructure formation in eritectic alloy systems” funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft) for a period of one year – with the prospect of prolongation for further two years.

Dear All,

Why rubber and like soft materials are incompressible? I do not want any explanation in formula like, volumetric strain is zero or poissons ratio is 0.5 etc. Physically whats happening when we apply compressive load? For example take a gas, when you compress, the density will change. Is there any of the properties are changing?

Thank you,

Muthu Kumar M

The following link is a website for comparing of the universities, insititutes all over the world. Pretty interesting~~

 http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Comparison?entitytype=7&id1=405&id2=568

The Twelfth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad from January 2 - 6, 2012, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

We invite you to submit an abstract/full paper on a relevant topic in Applied Mechanics, as described in the conference websitewww.pacamxii.org. The deadline to submit abstracts or papers is August 1, 2011.


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We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the area of Computational Mechanics. The position is available within the Institute of Structural Mechanics, chair of Computational Mechanics at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. The key research areas of the chair of Computational Mechanics are Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Isogeometric Analysis.

Please find attached a report on a comparison between ANSYS SHELL181 and SOLSH190 elements with particular emphasis on applicability to linear elastic sandwich panels.

Title: Comparison of Ansys elements Shell181 and Solsh190

Abstract:

Applicants are sought to fill a post-doctoral position in

computational solid/structural mechanics and design. The selected applicant will work

closely with Prof. Masoud Rais-Rohani and his research colleagues and graduate

students at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) in the Bagley

College of Engineering at Mississippi State University. Applicants must have strong background

in finite element analysis with good knowledge of commercial codes such as ABAQUS, LS-DYNA, or MD Nastran.

Have you ever seen a structure subject to flutter instability?

Can flutter instability be connected to dry friction?

We provide positive answers to the above questions, watch the video at

http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/flutter.html