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Two Postdoctoral Positions, 3-year full-time contract for each post, in 1) Computational Mechanics and 2) Instrumentation at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

A Postdoctoral position is available immediately at CEMEF Mines ParisTech, in the French Riviera. The aim of the project, in collaboration with Safran Aircraft Engines (SAE), is to model the fracture of glued Titanium/Composite assemblies at different scales. See the enclosed document for details.

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The Mueller Lab invites applications for two fully-funded Postdoctoral Fellow positions at the intersection of Additive Manufacturing, Mechanical Metamaterials, and Computational Design. Of specific interest are candidates with a background in direct-ink writing (DIW), dielectric-elastomer actuators (DEA), and computational design (including optimization and machine learning). Applicants must hold a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related discipline.

We report phenomenal yield strengths—up to one-fourth of the theoretical strength of silver—recorded in microcompression testing of initially dislocation-free silver micro- and nanocubes synthesized from a multistep seed-growth process. These high strengths and the massive strain bursts that occur upon yield are results of the initially dislocation-free single-crystal structure of the pristine samples that yield through spontaneous nucleation of dislocations.

We introduce a class of parity-time symmetric elastodynamic metamaterials (Ed-MetaMater) whose Hermitian counterpart exhibits unfolding (fractal) spectral symmetries. Our study reveals a scale-free formation of exceptional points in those Ed-MetaMaters whose density is dictated by the fractal dimension of their Hermitian spectra.

Research Associate in Computational Design Optimization

University of Sheffield - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil and Structural Engineering