Dear Colleagues,
I wish to bring to you my recent work with my supervisor Hui-Hui Dai on "Some Analytical Formulas for the Equilibrium States of a Swollen Hydrogel Shell". Below is the abstract and attached is the preprint of the article. I will very much appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Looking through books and papers I see an often quoted equation to show that the contact radius (a) of spherical indenter of radius (R) is related to the indentation depth (h):
a= √(R.h)
However, using simple trigonometry of a spherical cap it can be shown that:
a=√(2Rh-h2)
Contact area is very important for use in nanoindentation - however, if it is based on the wrong contact area calculation, then more errors become apparent.
I am interested in applying for Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) and Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (IIF). These are highly prestigious two-year fellowships (with average salary ~£50k/year):
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7CallsPa…
The deadline is 11 August 2011.IEF is for researchers outside the European Union and IIF is for researchers within the European Union. My areas of interest include:
Three post-doctoral fellow positions
available over 5 years at Cardiff University in the framework of an ERC Starting
Independent Research Grant with Prof. Stéphane P.A. Bordas and Dr.
Pierre Kerfriden in collaboration with Prof. Karol Miller (University
of Western Australia).
(Synopsis at bottom of post)
We are looking for candidates with
experience in either of the following topics:
model order reduction (e.g. proper orthogonal decomposition - POD)
Hi All,
I'm involved in development of AxSTREAM Turbomachinery Coceptual Design Suite.
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Some time ago we started a new series of animated demo with narration, related to latest version AxSTREAM-III.
Now I'd like to share first ones.
We have another new position available in computational mechanics at Durham. Please contact me if you want further information on the group, School or University.
On jobs.ac.uk Durham University Job Vacancies site (ref 0935)
Charles
A PhD scholarship is available at DTU Mechanical Engineering, Section for Solid Mechanics, in the field of fatigue and wear in rolling and sliding contacts, with focus on computational stress and damage modelling. The department has well-established research activities in this field. The present scholarship is partly funded by the Danish Centre for Knowledge based Engineering for Improved Reliability of Critical Wind turbine Components (REWIND) supported by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
Project description
A postdoctoral position is available in the area of mechanics of solids and structures. The ideal candidate will have expertise in mechanics of materials, will be creative and willing to explore new ideas.
For additional information, please contact Katia Bertoldi at bertoldi [at] seas.harvard.edu
