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PhD position

A summer internship position is available in Joint academic-industrial project between Nordisch LLC and Michigan State University. We seeks to improve the understanding of the constitutive behavior of soft materials in extreme conditions. In particular, this is important for evaluating the long-term performance of soft materials that are used as critical components in various systems.

PhD position(s) is available immediately in the Engineering Mechanics program in Aerospace Engineering Department at Iowa State University to perform theoretical and computational part of work on NSF-funded projects on the interaction between phase transformations and plasticity. Phase-field, micromechanical, and macroscale simulations using FEM are of interest, in close collaboration with high-pressure experiments performed in our lab. Please send vita to Prof.

We are looking for a PhD student in the area of design optimization and computational structural mechanics in Aerospace Engineering program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. Interested applicants should send their CV and a list of references to ali.tamijani [at] erau.edu (ali[dot]tamijani[at]erau[dot]edu). Please include “PhD application” in the subject of your email.

Dear Applied Mechanics and Materials Community:

Journal of Micromechanics and Molecular Physics (JMMP) starts six special issues in 2021

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/KR4efNXHhOW6DQw_MUNAAw

We are cordialy inviting contributions from all members of 

applied mechanics community.

With World Scientific Publication Co.,  we are working to make JMMP a high-impact

A new texbook suitable for upper division undergraduate or first year graduate course in solid mechanics:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/intermediate-solid-mechanics/3F98D…

PhD fellowships starting Fall 2021

COHMAS, KAUST invites applications for 3 fully-funded PhD (and similar MS/PHD) positions in Mechanical Engineering, starting Fall 2021.

Topic 1: New thermoplastics materials for Energy and Mobility applications

Journal Tittle: Acta Mechanica Sinica

Article Tittle: A New ANCF Solid-Beam Element: Relationship with Bézier Volume and Application on Leaf Spring Modeling

Author: Zuqing Yu, Yaqi Cui

Novelty/impact/significance

Constitutive models are of fundamental importance to many biomedical problems such as the rupture prediction of aortic aneurysms. Existing structure-based constitutive models such as the widely used Gasser–Ogden–Holzapfel (GOH) model usually need to specify the number of fiber family which may be difficult to identify for many kinds of tissues. In this study, we developed a novel hyperelastic model for biological tissues by considering a fiber distribution as a whole distribution which does not need the information of the number of fiber family.

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NJIT will be hosting a special webinar by Professor David Steigmann on March 17th, 12:30-1:30 pm (EST). Please see the attached flyer for more information about the webinar. The webex link to the meeting is below. All are welcome to join.