Wrinkling is one of the most important mechanical deformation modes (for example, buckling and crumpling) that are omnipresent in our daily life: for instance, wrinkled fingers after soaking in water for a prolonged time, the folds within the brain, and metal wrinkles after a car collision, to name a few.
There is an immediate opening of a postdoctoral researcher in the Mechanics of Soft Materials Lab (https://www.msm.seas.ucla.edu/) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The research will be on experimental mechanics of soft materials, and fabrication of soft machines. The successful candidate should have a PhD degree with expertise in experimental polymer materials.
PDR in Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Somnath Ghosh
sghosh20 [at] jhu.edu https://cmrl.jhu.edu/
There are two hydraulic universal testing machine designs. The first uses a single sided ram to apply force and requires gravity for the piston to return home. This type of hydraulic testing machine is the most common and is used for static tests only. A schematic of a ram based hydraulic tester is shown in Figure 1. The second type of hydraulic machine uses a dual acting piston. The dual acting piston design provides control in both the up and down direction and is commonly used for fatigue testing applications.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) is offering a post-doc position on modeling fiber suspension flows using isogeometric analysis.
https://www.kth.se/en/api/2.61673/what:job/jobID:410765/where:4/
Please, apply!
EML Webinar (Season 2) on 16 June 2021 will be given by Ju Li, MIT. Elastic Strain Engineering for Unprecedented Properties. Discussion Leaders: Sulin Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University
Time: 10 am Boston, 3 pm London, 10 pm Beijing on 16 June 2021
Zoom Link: https://ter.ps/EMLWebinarS2
Looking for postdoctoral researcher with experience in the area of topological mechanics and/or acoustics, or nonlinear mechanics/dynamics to join the Boechler Research Group (http://boechler.ucsd.edu/) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. A solid theoretical background in the aforementioned area, as well as strong communication skills are desired. The initial appointment would be for one year, with a potential for extension.
Self-assembly of three-dimensional (3D) structures, through bending, twisting, folding, and buckling, has garnered broad interest among physicists, mathematicians, chemists, and biologists. Herein strain engineering and geometric frustration as an on-demand strategy for fabricating spontaneous rolling “origami” structures with programmable multistability across multiple length scales are exploited.
