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Ph.D. position opened at the University of Brescia, Italy

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The group of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at the School of Engineering at the University of Brescia (Italy) has an open PhD position. The appointment will begin on January 1st 2014 for three full years.


The following topics are of interest:
1. small-scale plasticity of metals, with emphasis on modelling the size effect through strain gradient plasticity theories and dislocation mechanics. 2. micromechanics of composite materials, with emphasis on modelling failure.


Syntactic and Composite Foams III Conference

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The international conference "Syntactic and Composite Foams III" will be held in Cetraro (Italy) May 29th - June 3rd, 2011. Abstracts of approximately 300 words should be submitted no later than January 15th, 2011 for oral presentations and March 1st, 2011 for poster presentations.  More information at the web page: http://www.engconfintl.org/11afabout.html