Position Title: Post-doctoral Research Associate
Location: School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Contact: Prof. Thomas Siegmund, siegmund [at] purdue.edu
Start Date: As soon as possible, latest by Fall 2021
Project Title: Bone Hydration to Reduce Microcracking and Fracture Risk
Description of project:
The Mechanics of Infrastructure Materials research group are looking to hire a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work in the EPSRC project NEXTGEM. The project, led by Dr Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, aims at combining phase field methods and electro-chemo-mechanics modelling to resolve the scientific challenges holding back the applicability of hydrogen embrittlement models.
Viscoelasticity is the property of a material that exhibits some combination of both elastic or spring-like and viscous or flow-like behavior.
The postdoc fellow will work with Associate Research Professor Feng Zhu (https://fzhu.wse.jhu.edu/) in Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), a division of Johns Hopkins University.
Duties
· Conduct drop tower and ballistic impact tests on lithium-ion battery cells and system
· Develop numerical models to simulate the battery tests and analyze the failure responses
Esteemed Colleagues,
this post is to invite you all to attend the next free on-line global live TAFMech webinar on Fracture Mechanics-related topics that will take place this Friday (14/05) at 2.30 PM GMT (3.30 PM BST). The webinar’s details are as follows:
Þ Prof. MH Ferri Aliabadi – Imperial College, London, UK
Title of seminar: Structural Health Monitoring for Life Management Of Composite Fuselage
Date/time: 14 May 2021 at 2.30 PM GMT (3.30 PM BST)
Université Côte d'Azur and CEMEF Mines ParisTech, in the French Riviera, currently have a Ph.D. position in computational geomechanics.
The goal of the project is to study the microstructural evolutions that take place on rocks of the lithosphere by using full field numerical simulations. The idea is to directly account for the physical mechanisms responsible for the microstructural evolution of the rocks and that are thought to be at the origin of strain localization and might help us to understand the origin of tectonic plates.
I am looking to hire a postdoc for a 2 year appointment to work with me on FE simulation of wind turbine tower structures with opportunities for collaboration in uncertainty quantification, other energy structures, other thin-walled structures, and more. I have two active projects on wind turbine towers that include collaborations with one large OEM and one startup manufacturer that will be the primary emphasis of the postdoc.
In this work published in PNAS (https://www.pnas.org/content/118/19/e2100077118), we present compliant 3D frameworks that incorporate microscale strain sensors for high-sensitivity measurements of contractile forces of engineered optogenetic muscle tissue rings, supported by quantitative simulations.
Abstract:
Hi I tried to code a basic phase field model for fracture in octave.
It doesn't seem to converge to the correct load. It fails later.
Also mesh refinement did not improve the results.
The link to the GIT is here
https://github.com/dontcallmesuren/Phase-field-modelling.git
Any idea where I am wrong?
Ping me. Thanks in advance.
PhD positions in Computational Mechanics - Fracture and Contact Mechanics
We just opened at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca a call for PhD students for the next cycle of the PhD Programme in Systems Science, Track Computer Science and Systems Engineering.
People interested in computational mechanics and tribology should mention MUSAM -Multi-scale Analysis of Materials- in their motivation letter and in the online form.
