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Kejie Zhao

Submitted by Kejie Zhao on

Hi everyone, very glad to see you here. My name is Kejie Zhao, a first year phd student working in Prof.Zhigang Suo's group (www.seas.harvard.edu/suo). My concentration is solid mechanics with the same name of this course, it also signifies its importance to my future research. I graduate from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China before coming to Harvard. There I obtained my bachelor and master degree in Engineering Mechanics and Solid Mechanics respectively.

PhD and Post Doc Positions

Submitted by tsarjun on

One post doc position and two PhD student positions are available immediately at Composite Vehicle Research Center, Michigan State University.

Research background in atleast one of the following key areas preferred

1. Experimental Mechanics

2. Composite Materials - Design, characterization or damage mechanics

3. Biomimetic Design - Analytical or Computational experience with interest in experimental validation

Postdoc research associate and PhD student positions available

Submitted by Yongming Liu on

One postdoc and several PhD student positions are available at Clarkson University. Research background in at least one of the following areas is preferred.

1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures, computational mechanics and numerical methods

2. Probabilistic methods, engineering statistics, random process theory

3. Structural dynamics, health monitoring, signal processing, system identification

Unsolicited proposals on Dynamical Systems

Submitted by Ken P. Chong on

The Dynamical Systems program in the Directorate of Engineering and the Applied Mathematics Program in the directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Sciences, of the National Science Foundation, have just published a joint "Dear Colleague Letter", expressing interest in special topics in Dynamical Systems.  The letter encourages unsolicited proposals on the following topics:

Pressure vessel: ASME section VIII division II

Submitted by jiang62 on

Hi, everyone,

I am wondering whether anybody could explain how to determine primary stress and secondary stress when FE software is used when the pressure vessel is designed using ASME section VIII vision 2.

The code has some explanation using plasticity (self-limiting). But it is very hard to use for practical use.

Thanks