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Grad student positions at University of California Merced

Submitted by amartini on
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) is looking for highly competitive and enthusiastic applicants for our Master’s and Ph.D. programs, with a starting date of Fall 2021. The department is active in both classical end emerging areas of research in mechanical engineering. For more details about research activities, faculty profiles and graduate education, please visit: me.ucmerced.edu. 

 

Discussion of fracture paper #28 - Rate effects and dynamic toughness of concrete

Submitted by ESIS on

The paper "Estimating static/dynamic strength of notched unreinforced concrete under mixed-mode I/II loading" by N. Alanazi and L. Susmel in Engineering Fracture Mechanics 240 (2020) 107329, pp. 1-18, is a readworthy and very interesting paper. Extensive fracture mechanical testing of concrete is throughly described in the paper. The tests are performed for different fracture mode mixities applied to test specimens with different notch root radii at various elevated loading rates. 

New article on inelastic homogenization through machine learning

Submitted by Julian J. Rimoli on
machine learning
homogenization
multiscale modeling
constitutive modeling

I would like to share another article from my group just published in CMAME. I think this is an interesting approach towards the automatic generation of constitutive laws for arbitrary microstructures:

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1bxlSAQEIt1ls

The article focuses on how to systematically create constitutive laws using only:

1) Available microstructural models

2) Machine learning techniques

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Submitted by Bin Wang on

Molecular to macroscale energy absorption mechanisms in biological body armour illuminated by scanning x-ray diffraction with in situ compression, Zhang, Garrevoet, Wang, Roeh, Terrill, Falkenberg, Dong, Gupta, ACS Nano, 2020

Novelty/impact/significance:

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Submitted by Bin Wang on

Ultra-tough inverse artificial nacre based on epoxy-graphene by freeze-casting, Huang, Peng, Wan, Du, Dou, Wagner, Tomsia, Jiang, Cheng, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2019

Novelty/impact/significance:

Postdoc vacancy (2.5 years) on multi-scale modelling of fatigue in 3D printed metals

Submitted by wvpaepeg on
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3D printing
additive manufacturing
computational mechanics
multi-scale modelling
AM metals
Titanium
statistics

The use of 3D printed metal structures is taking a very fast ramp-up in industry. General Electric has demonstrated the possibility of printing titanium fuel injectors for their LEAP engine, EADS has printed a nacelle hinge bracket for the Airbus A320, Boeing is printing plastic inlet ducts for high-altitude aircrafts, hip implants and other prosthetics are exploiting the design freedom of additive manufacturing (AM),...

Department Head Position at HKUST

Submitted by Wei Hong on
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Department Head

Helping a friend to post this oppotunity - Head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. (I am not moving:))
More details can be found in the attachment, and applications and querry should be directed to the Search Committee Chair for Headship of CIVL (dhcivl [at] ust.hk).

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