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Experimental Mechanics Postdoc position available starting summer 2021 in the Franck Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (https://www.franck.engr.wisc.edu/)

The Traverso Laboratory is seeking a PhD-level mechanical/biomedical engineer to join the team focused on the development of novel gastrointestinal devices for treatment of major diseases. This includes technologies such as drug delivery systems, smart pills and stents, soft actuators, and ingestible electronics. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing and analyzing mechanical systems and materials for biological application. The major responsibilities will include the preparation of detailed design, design testing, and prototype fabrication.

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Professor Nasser Khalili's research group at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia (https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/civil-engineering/staff/nasser-khal…), is looking for several PhD students on the following topics:

1) Computational Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials

2) Geo-structure Health Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance

3) Computational Fracture Mechanics

As the Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics (TAFMech, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-and-applied-fracture-mechanics/), this post is to invite you all to attend our first free global live webinar on Fracture Mechanics-related topics that will take place this Friday (15/1) at 2 pm GMT:

Prof. David McDowell – Georgia Tech Institute for Materials, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Dear Colleagues,

Here is our recent paper published in EML on collective behavior in solid-state photoreaction. Combining statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics, we build a model to predict and explain multiple collective behaviors reported in experiments of solid-state photoreaction for the first time.

Collective behavior in the kinetics and equilibrium of solid-state photoreaction

Ruobing Bai, Ying Shi Teh, Kaushik Bhattacharya*

The current push toward lightweight structures in aerospace and aeronautical engineering is leading to slender design airfoils, which are more likely to undergo large deformation, hence experiencing geometrical nonlinearities. The problem of vibration localization in a rotor constituted by N coupled airfoils with plunge and pitch degrees of freedom subjected to flutter instability is considered.

Recently, Dalvi and co-authors have shown detailed experimental data of adhesion of soft spheres with rough substrates with roughness measured down to almost the atomic scale, finding that the Persson and Tosatti theory gave satisfactory predictions of the apparent work of adhesion during loading, once the increase of the surface area due to roughness is correctly computed at extremely small scales.

Specifically, the post requires expert knowledge in experimental and/or computational mechanics of materials and/or tribology. The position is part of a large international EPSRC-SFI funded project aimed at developing next generation textile triboelectric nanogenerators (or T-TENGs) for powering of wearable electronics.  This position will focus on the mechanics and tribology of T-TENGs and will involve both modelling and experimental work.