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The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (http://mie.njit.edu) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (http://www.njit.edu) has an opening for the fully funded Ph.D. position.  The position will start in Fall 2021 (September 2021). Interested candidates should apply as soon as possible.

Research Description:  The selected student will primarily work on Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics. He/she will be primarily involved in different projects such as:

We have two fully-funded positions at the Center for Soft Robotics at the University of Southern Denmark based in Odense.

PhD student (Soft Robotics & Art, 3 years): https://www.sdu.dk/en/service/ledige_stillinger/1139520
Contact: Jonas Jørgensen (jonj [at] mmmi.sdu.dk)

Postdoc (Soft Robotics, 18 months) :https://www.sdu.dk/en/service/ledige_stillinger/1139545
Contact: Ahmad Rafsanjani (ahra [at] mmmi.sdu.dk)

The deadline for submitting online applications is February 28, 2021.

Link to paper

Link to paper

When a soft mechanical metamaterial, consisting of a regular array of representative volume elements (RVE), is stressed up to a large strain, the delicately tailored behavior of the RVE does not prevail in the metamaterial due to boundary effect and manufacturing imperfections. A metamaterial sheet comprising RVEs designed for snapping-back behavior exhibits random snapping-through instability when uniaxially stretched. We conceptualize that loss of representativeness of RVE can be avoided by introducing fibre reinforcement to regulate boundary conditions.

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at NJIT will be hosting a special webinar by Professor Davide Bigoni on Feb 3rd, 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.

Webex link: https://njit.webex.com/njit/j.php?MTID=me1d1a94065cacf8b67bf2e572fe2ff07

A fully-funded PhD position is available within the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queen's University Belfast. Detailed project description and how to apply are given at this link.

In this work, a Ti/SiC metal matrix nanocomposite (MMNC) coating was produced on Ti-6Al-4V substrate by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) technique. The MMNC coating had 7% SiC and 93% Ti by volume. It was observed that applying the nanocomposite coating on titanium substrate significantly reduced the wear and coefficient of friction (COF). By applying the coating, 108% improvement in hardness of Ti-6Al-4V substrates was obtained.

2021 4th International Conference on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation (ICMRA 2021) will be held during October 22-24, 2021 at Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China. ICMRA 2021 is sponsored by Guangdong Ocean University and Beijing Institute of Control Robots and Intelligent Technology (BICRI)

THE CONFERENCE FLYER IS ATTACHED.

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