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Postdoctoral position in Multiscale Computational Analysis of Composite Materials (Madrid, Spain)

Submitted by claudiosaul.lopes on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 10:23

IMDEA Materials Institute (Madrid,sapin) seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher (PhD degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace, or related) to work in the field of multiscale computational analysis of composite materials. Candidates with strong background knowledge in computational multiscale damage mechanics, and on the numerical simulation of advanced composites are strongly encouraged to apply. A general knowledge in materials science is highly valued.

More information at http://www.materials.imdea.org/open-positions/postdoctoral-researchers

Die simulation

Submitted by msomiv on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 09:30

research

Hello guys.

delamination of composite tee joints

Submitted by jnsagar on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 07:33

education

hi this is alex i am working on composte tee joints expermental thing so i have been change to computational ,so need a help in umat since i am new to this abacus i couldn't able to write this umat code for delamination of epoxy /corban fibre material with t joints with unidirectonal fibre alinement with 3 laminate

Online MS degree in Mechanical Design

Submitted by kapornith on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 12:35

education

onlime MS Mechanical

Hi,

I am a mechanical engineer and have been in industry for past 12 years.Was trying to find out a good instituition to purue an Online MS degree in Mechanical Design/or any other core mechanical stream.Can anyone help me with this please.

My sincere apologies if this is not the right place to post a query like this.

Best Regards

Modeling of Bimodulus material

Submitted by awanibhu on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 10:09

research

fracture mechanics

solid mechanics

How to model Bimodulus Material in ANSYS or any Finite Element Analysis software to find out Neutral axis shift in simple bend test.

Influence of temperature and free edges on the mechanical properties of graphene.

Submitted by Nuwan Dewapriya on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 05:43

strain rate dependence

initial strain

temperature dependent properties

stress strain response

atomistic modelling

I would like to share with you my first paper in a SCI journal: doi:10.1088/0965-0393/21/6/065017

ERC Advanced Grant 2013 to Professor Davide Bigoni

Submitted by lucadeseri on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 15:56

mechanician

ERC Advanced Grant 2013 in Mechanics to Professor Davide Bigoni UniTN-Italy

Join us to congratulate Professor Davide
Bigoni, who has just been awarded with the ERC Advanced Grant
Proposal 340561 - Instabilities and nonlocal multiscale modelling of
materials, years 2014-2018, 2.4 M.

Congratulations Davide!

A full-time intern position is available at Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton NJ US)

Submitted by Xuefei Guan on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 13:59

job

Fatigue and Fracture

structural mechanics

ultrasound/electro-magnetic NDE

(extended) finite element methods

c++ programming

A full-time intern position is available at Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton NJ US)

About SCR:

Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for Kohn-Sham density functional theory

Submitted by Vikram Gavini on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 10:24

research

finite elements

electronic structure

density functional theory

ab-initio calculations

real space

Dear Colleagues,

I wish to share with you our recent article on "Higher-order adaptive finite-element method for Kohn-Sham density functional theory", which will soon appear in the Journal of Computational Physics. Below is the abstract and attached is a preprint of the article.

P. Motamarri, N.R. Nowak, K. Leiter, J. Knap, V. Gavini, Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for Kohn-Sham density functional theory, J. Comp. Phys. 253, 308-343 (2013).