Dear mechanicians and friends,
I bring your attention on the available Early Research Stage (ESR) position, i.e. PhD position, within the International Training Network (ITN) NewFrac (www.newfrac.eu).
The corresponding link is available here
https://www.newfrac.eu/news/newfrac-reopen-phd-position-esr6-robert-bosch
The University of Arizona seeks a strategic, collaborative leader to serve as head of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. The head of AME, who reports to the College of Engineering dean, leads a dynamic department with a diverse group of faculty, staff, and students, plus modern teaching and research facilities. The department head must be an innovative and visionary academic leader who can spearhead the continuing transformation of AME for the challenges of the 21st century. Please see the attached file. Also, see bit.ly/az-ame-dept-head for the complete job posting.
Adherent cells are able to actively generate internal forces, channeled by cytoskeletal protein filaments and transmitted through transmembrane receptors to the surrounding environment by means of focal adhesions.
Polymeric plastics deform irreversibly (i.e., inelastically) whereas rubbers deform reversibly, i.e., elastically.
Thus, uniaxially stretching a rubber-plastic bilayer composite beyond its yield point can create an elastic strain mismatch between the two layers. Upon release, the bilayer may then bend out-of-plane.
Complex mechanical behaviours are generally met in macroscopically homogeneous media as effects of inelastic responses or as results of unconventional material properties, which are postulated or due to structural systems at the meso/micro-scale.
Examples are strain localization due to plasticity or damage and metamaterials exhibiting negative Poisson’s ratios resulting from special porous, eventually buckling, sub-structures.
Meredith Silberstein and Max Tepermeister
Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
We seek candidates with research experience in computational mechanics:
Job requirements:
Ph.D. position at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The research is concerned with the modeling of failure and fracture in soft materials and biological tissues. Preference will be given to candidates with background in nonlinear finite element methods and constitutive modeling. If you are interested, please send an email to me at: cvolokh [at] technion.ac.il (cvolokh[at]technion[dot]ac[dot]il) with a single PDF file containing
Postdoc positions are available in the group of Prof. JG Zhu at Jiangsu University, China. Those possessing PhDs in the area of solid mechanics and material science are sought. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in experimental and computational mechanics, composite materials and structures etc. Applicants should submit a full curriculum vitae to zhujg [at] ujs.edu.cn (zhujg[at]ujs[dot]edu[dot]cn) .
Together with Ondřej Rokoš and Milan Jirásek, we are searching for a postdoctoral researcher to work with us on leveraging quasi-continuum methods towards robust simulations of initiation and propagation of instabilities in architectured materials and flexible mechanical metamaterials. Eligible candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree awarded in 2015 or later.
