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Journal Club for Nov 2024: Manufacturing, Testing, and Actuation of Origami-Based Metamaterials

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Diego Misseroni

Laboratory for the Design of Reconfigurable Metamaterials & Structures, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, Italy

 

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2nd Workshop on Thermodynamics of Fatigue Process - online on November 13

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Get ready on Wednesday November 13, 2024 at 14:30, when the event starts online. Access to it is completely free, you must only register (and accept that your name and your home institution will be listed among participants).

Open Presidential Faculty Fellow Positions in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston

Submitted by Theocharis on

The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) invites applications for two Presidential Frontier Faculty positions at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured early Associate Professor, depending on the qualifications of the successful candidates, with appointments beginning in Fall 2025. The Presidential Frontier Faculty program at UH is a university-wide, integrated, interdisciplinary faculty hiring initiative designed to address pressing federal priorities and societal challenges.

Postdoctoral Position in Computational Biomechanics

Submitted by vicky.nguyen on

The Nguyen Lab (nguyenlab.wse.jhu.edu) invites applications for a postdoctoral position in computational biomechanics with applications to ocular biomechanics. The postdoctoral scholar will be involved in an R01 funded project to study the relationship between the structure and mechanical properties of the optic nerve head tissues and remodeling with glaucoma.  The project is highly interdisciplinary and involves long-standing collaborations between the Nguyen Lab and world-renowned glaucoma clinician-scientists at the Wilmer Eye I

Postdoctoral Position in Computational Biomechanics

Submitted by vicky.nguyen on

The Nguyen Lab (nguyenlab.wse.jhu.edu) invites applications for a postdoctoral position in computational biomechanics with applications to ocular biomechanics. The postdoctoral scholar will be involved in an R01 funded project to study the relationship between the structure and mechanical properties of the optic nerve head tissues and remodeling with glaucoma.  The project is highly interdisciplinary and involves long-standing collaborations between the Nguyen Lab and world-renowned glaucoma clinician-scientists at the Wilmer Eye I

Open faculty position in CEE at Cornell

Submitted by arsonc on

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University (Ithaca campus) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the broad area of dynamics related to the mechanics of structures and materials. Our definition of structures is broad and includes buildings, bridges, dikes, wind turbines, and solar devices/solar panels.

We are interested in applicants whose research is related to any of the following or related areas:
    • Material and/or structural response to dynamic loading arising from wind, waves, blast, seismic waves

On friction effects and the conditions of failure of adhesion in punch shaped pillars and mushrooms

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

Considerable research has been conducted on shape of pillar ends for optimal adhesion. In experiments with elastomers it has been found that mushrooms-ended ones are superior to flat-ended ones, but early experiments have suggested an extremely strong scaling in strength with pillar radius (del Campo et al Langmuir;23 :10235-43, 2007). We discuss various theories and experimental results on scaling of strength, and in particular we elaborate recent experiments on single pillars with mushroom ends finding that the scaling on strength is much less surprising.

PhD Positions at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

Submitted by Zilin Yan on

The Mechanics of Functional Ceramics group (https://faculty.hitsz.edu.cn/yanzilin) at HITsz, led by Dr. Zilin Yan, Associate Professor, is seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students  in the following areas.