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NSF NRT fellowships at Stony Brook University

Submitted by kedarkirane on

NSF funded NRT Fellowship is available for eligible students at Stony Brook University, in the field of Quantitative Analysis of Dynamic Structures (QuADS!).  It supports select students performing research in the area of materials characterization. This prestigious one-year fellowship will provide

- An annual stipend of $34,000 during Year 2 of your Ph.D. (So you can apply for your PhD now to SBU, and then, to this fellowship for your second year) 

A tutorial on the electrostatics of deformable materials with a focus on stability and bifurcation analysis

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

The attached tutorial paper is yet unpublished but I am posting a pre-print since several students I know have found it to be a useful pedagogical resource. You may also access the document on arXiv.

Here is the abstract.

PhD Position in Mechanical Engineering at Temple University for Spring/Fall 2021

Submitted by Ling Liu on

1 funded PhD position is available immediately.  The research is on computational mechanics and materials relating to nuclear materials, energy storage materials, biomaterials, and composite materials.  Temple University is located in Philadelphia, the sixth-most populous U.S. city, about 2 hours from New York City and 3 hours from Washington DC.  Temple University is ranked 103 by US News.  Interested candidates please send CV, transcripts and standard test scores to ling.liu [at] temple.edu

Ph.D. positions at Univ. of Parma – Italy on Smart Materials and Additive Manufacturing Simulation (for Chinese CSC supported students)

Submitted by Roberto Brighenti on

Two Ph.D. positions are available at the Univ. of Parma – Italy, for Chinese CSC supported students. The topic will be the mechanical modeling of advanced and responsive materials and additive manufacturing modeling, starting from Nov. 2021.

Global Composites Experts Webinar by Dr. Mike Wisnom

Submitted by Wenbin Yu on

cdmHUB invites you to attend the Global Composites Experts Webinar Series. 

Title: The Challenges of Determining the Strength of Composites

Speaker: Dr. Michael Wisnom

Time: 11/19, 11AM-12PM EST.

Please go to https://www.purdue.edu/cmsc/events/2020-webinars/ to register for this webinar.
 

Two postdoc positions in computational multiscale mechanics

Submitted by BernhardEidel on

Two fully-funded postdoctoral positions of multiscale materials modeling and high-performance scientific computing in Germany; in the groups of Karsten Albe (https://www.mawi.tu-darmstadt.de/mm/home_mm/index.en.jsp) and Bernhard Eidel (https://www.mb.uni-siegen.de/heisenberg/index.html?lang=de). The call is open until positions are filled.

A new continuum model for metallic glass based on thermodynamics

Submitted by Xiaoding Wei on

My group at Peking University proposed a novel mechano-chemical continuum model based on the framework of thermodynamics that can describe the microstructural evolution in metallic glass, and connect it with the macroscopic plastic deformation. The model successfully simulated the shear band instability and dilatancy effects of metallic glass under uniaxial tension and simple shear.

contact not working

Submitted by jumar on

Hello

im trying to model a pin on disk wear using a *STEADY STATE TRANSPORT, INERTIA=YES as i understand i have to create a axysimmetric 2d model an then rotate it using the *SYMMETRIC MODEL GENERATION,REVOLVE,ELEMENT=1000,NODE=1000 in a secind file.

On that second file im defining the pin as a an analytic surface and defining the contact, but when i run the model the pin just go trought the disk.

Atached you can found the axisimetric model and the revolution model. 

Progress report on HASEL artificial muscles

Submitted by Philipp Rothemund on

Dear colleagues,

We have published a progress report on hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic (HASEL) artificial muscles in Advanced Materials. In this progress report we report the recent developments of HASEL actuators—including materials, designs, fabrication, and control—and discuss many opportunities for future research.