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Engineer III Schlumberger

Submitted by henrygrebe on

Job Opening Schlumberger, a Fortune 500 Company, is a world-wide leading supplier of premium products and services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, the petrochemical industry and other industrial markets.  We are seeking to hire a qualified candidate to fill the position of Engineer III in our Houston, TX location.   The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, organizing, and executing design development projects resulting in the definition of new products and improv

Faculty Positions in Solid Mechanics, Structural Dynamics & Aeroelasticity at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Submitted by Julian J. Rimoli on

The School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology invites nominations and applications for two faculty positions in the areas of solid mechanics, structural dynamics, and aeroelasticity.  Appointments at all ranks will be considered. While candidates in all related areas of research will be considered, candidates with a strong experimental background are particularly sought.



Postdoctoral position available at the University of Western Ontario, Canada

Submitted by wenxingzhou on

A postdoctoral position is available starting in May 2011 in Prof. Wenxing Zhou’s research group in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Ontario.  The duration for the position is 2 -3 years.  The successful candidate will carry out fracture mechanics testing and numerical simulations, and develop strain-based design methods for pressurized energy pipelines.  The project is jointly funded by the Engineering Research Council of Canada and a major pipeline company.  If interested, please send your CVs to wzhou [at] eng.uwo.ca (wzhou[at]eng[dot]uwo[dot]ca) to apply.

IJSI-2012: 1st International Conference of the International Journal of Structural Integrity

Submitted by ptcastro on

IJSI-2012
 
1st International Conference of the International Journal of Structural Integrity

June 25-28, 2012
 
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal
 
www.fe.up.pt/ijsi-2012

 

PhD scholarship @ Nanyang Technological University --- Energy Harvesting

Submitted by Tang Lihua on

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A multidisciplinary research team from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, is recruiting PhD students.

The
qualified applicants will be awarded research scholarship
(S$2000/month, S$2500/month after confirmation) for the entire 4 years
of PhD candidature.

The
research  topic is “Energy harvesting using smart materials”.  All PhD
students are required to pass the qualification exam by 18 months.

Can an elastic structure buckle under tensile dead load?

Submitted by Davide Bigoni on
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We all know Euler buckling of a beam under axial thrust, but can buckling occur in an elastic structure in which all elements are subject to tensile dead loading?

We provide a positive answer to this question, see http://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalSociety#p/u/0/EKngs1vvcJU