Peel strength, the average force required to separate two bonded materials from one another, is a property applicable to various industries including aerospace, automotive, adhesives, packaging, biomaterials, microelectronics, and more. Peel test data is used to determine the quality of the adhesive joint and, where applicable, provides information on the effects of processes and of the environment on the adhesive-adherend interface strength.
Postdoc Open Positions
Postdoc positions with financial support (up to 3 years) are immediately available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut (UConn).
Required Degree:
Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics, Chemical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering, Material Science, Condense Matter Physics, or Computational Chemistry.
Required Skills:
New book: Cyclic Plasticity of Metals: Modeling Fundamentals and Applications (published by Elsevier)
https://www.elsevier.com/books/cyclic-plasticity-of-metals/roostaei/978-0-12-819293-1
Table of Contents:
Part One: Introduction
1 Experimental observations in cyclic loading of metals
2 Fundamentals of cyclic plasticity models
There is a fully funded PhD studentship position in Lyon between two following Labs: LaMCoS (INSA de Lyon and CNRS) & LTDS (ECL, ENISE, ENTPE and CNRS). Please see the attached for more details.
Please see the attached announcement. We are going to accept applications till December 31st 2021. Send emails to amsgroup [at] beckman.illinois.edu
Please consider submitting an abstract to https://www.usnctam2022.org/MS_313
The deadline is January 31 2022.
We have several Ph.D. positions available in our group (https://sites.usc.edu/zhaogroup/) in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Southern California for Fall 2022. We are an interdesciplinary group with broad interests in experimental mechanics, advanced materials, and manufacturing. Our focus areas include 3D soft electronics, engineered surfaces/interfaces, and active/smart materials. Candidates interested in these areas are encouraged to submit applications to our Ph.D.
Journal Tittle: Acta Mechanica Sinica
Article Tittle: Soft substrate and decreased cytoskeleton contractility promote coupling and morphology maintenance of pluripotent stem cells
Authors: Meihonh Sun, Jialing Cao, Yuanyuan Zhai, Peng Zhao, Jie Yao, Yan Gong, Jing Du, Yubo Fan
Research Background
Simple exact solutions are known for the indentation problem of a viscoelastic halfspace by a rigid sphere only as long as the contact area is growing. We consider instead a more general cyclic repeated indentation with a pulsating load with a period of zero load. We show that a combination of exact with empirical relaxation solutions coming from simple uniaxial cases is sufficiently accurate to estimate the energy dissipated per cycle, which we report for the standard ”3-elements” solid and periodic half-sine loading for various parameters.
