Post Doctoral position available at University of Limerick, Ireland
Post Doctoral Researcher in Computational Solid Mechanics
Applications are invited for a post doctoral researcher in computational solid mechanics.
Blog posts
How to better grasp your spoon?
How can shear loading rate affect the soft adhesive contact area? A new blog post in tribonet.org discusses the problem following the paper "Papangelo, Antonio. (2021). On the Effect of Shear Loading Rate on Contact Area Shrinking in Adhesive Soft Contacts. Tribology Letters. 69." just published in Tribology Letters.
Research Fellow positions available at NTU, Singapore
We are seeking strongly motivated candidates to fill two Research Fellow positions in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The successful candidate will work on experimental studies in the area of cell mechanics, bioprinting, and bio-hybrid soft robotics. We are particularly interested in candidates with research experience in bioengineering, soft materials, mechanobiology and applied mechanics.
Required Qualifications:
Superelasticity and shape memory effect in zirconia nanoparticles
In this work, superelastic and shape memory properties of single crystalline and polycrystalline yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia (YSTZ) nanoparticles are studied by atomistic simulations. N. Zhang and M. Asle Zaeem. Superelasticity and shape memory effect in zirconia nanoparticles. Extreme Mechanics Letters 46 (2021) 101301 (8 pages).
Webinar, June 25, 2021, Wang tiles for modular (meta)materials, Jan Zeman
June 25, 2021, 5:00 - 7:00 PM CET
WANG TILES FOR MODULAR (META)MATERIALS
Prof. Jan Zeman, Czech Technical University, Prague
Webinar, Federico Bosia, June 11
On June 11, 2021, in the framework of the PRIN2015 METAMATERIALS WEBINARS series, prof. Federico Bosia from Politecnico di Torino has held the webinar
ELASTIC METAMATERIALS FOR MULTISCALE APPLICATIONS, FROM SEISMIC SHIELDS TO NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING. The registration of the webinar is available here.
An assessment of phase field fracture: crack initiation and growth
Dear iMechanicians,
We have contributed to the Special Issue organised by the Royal Society on occasion of the centenary of Griffith's seminal paper with a paper revisiting phase field fracture methods and their connection with conventional fracture mechanics theory. I hope that you find it of interest. (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2021.0021)
Ph.D. Call Doctoral School in Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering - University of Trento, Trento, Italy
- Reference persons: Marco Broccardo (UNITN/DICAM), Oreste S. Bursi (UNITN/DICAM) (marco.broccardo [at] unitn.it - oreste.bursi [at] unitn.it)
C8 - scholarship on reserved topics
https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1954/announcement-of-selection
Funded by: MUR – Departments of Excellence
Ph.D. call - Doctoral School in Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering - University of Trento, Italy
- Reference persons: Oreste S. Bursi (UNITN/DICAM), Gabriele Zanon (UNITN/DICAM) (oreste.bursi [at] unitn.it - gabriele.zanon [at] unitn.it)
C1 - scholarship on reserved topics
https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1954/announcement-of-selection
Computing wrinkling and restabilization of stretched sheets based on a consistent finite-strain plate theory
It was reported both in experiments and computations using some classical plate theories that wrinkles can appear in a uniaxially stretched rectangular hyperelastic film with clamped-clamped boundaries and can be suppressed upon further tension. Here, based on a recently-available consistent finite-strain plate theory, we investigate this complex instability problem with isola-center bifurcation (the nontrivial solution curve begins and ends at two distinct points on the trivial line) in more depth and present an efficient numerical algorithm.