The Labortory of Soft Materials Mechanics and Manufacturing (https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/LASM3/) is recruiting PhD candidates starting either on Spring or Fall 2021. Students with expertise in the following areas are especially valued:
1. Thermodynamics of solids
2. Polymer synthesis
3. Developing customer experimental setups
PhD positions are available in the field of 3D printed composite materials for impact mitigation and acoustic attenuation. The research work will have both computational and experimental components. Individuals interested in 3D printed polymer composites, multiscale material modelling, performance of composites under high strain rates and experimental mechanics are encouraged to apply. The position starts early January 2021. The students will be enrolled in the Department of Civil and environmental Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.
Ericksen's problem consists of determining all equilibrium deformations that can be sustained solely by the application of boundary tractions for an arbitrary incompressible isotropic hyperelastic material whose stress-free configuration is geometrically flat. We generalize this by first, using a geometric formulation of this problem to show that all the known universal solutions are symmetric with respect to Lie subgroups of the special Euclidean group. Second, we extend this problem to its anelastic version, where the stress-free configuration of the body is a Riemannian manifold.
The Special Issue "Advances in Elastic Micro-Structured Systems and Metamaterials", that will be published in Applied Sciences (Impact Factor: 2.474), is open to receive submissions for peer-review and possible publication.
The aims and scope can be found at the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/elastic_micro_struc…
A joint postdoctoral position in “Topology Optimization of Additively Manufactured Composites” is available between Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) and University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). The applicant must currently be in the U.S.
A few days ago I had a good discussion with a dear colleague on the topic of the current state of scholarship in mechanics and the education of the new generation of mechanicians. During the past few decades most mechanics researchers have limited their activities to the writing of papers and research proposals. This because the “reward system” places little value to the authoring of monographs and textbooks. In fact the number of quality books produced during this period pales in comparison to those written by the giants of mechanics, including Timoshenko, Truesdall, etc.
How did one arrive at the red-underlined part in the equation (2) from differentiating equation (1)? Please see the picture:
The paper referred here:
Chen, Y., Zhuang, W., Wang, S., Lin, J., Balint, D., & Shan, D. (2012). Investigation of FE model size definition for surface coating application. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 25(5), 860-867.
Surface instability of compliant film/substrate bilayers has raised considerable interests due to its broad applications such as wrinkle-driven surface renewal and antifouling, shape-morphing for camouflaging skins, and micro/nano-scale surface patterning control. However, it is still a challenge to precisely predict and continuously trace secondary bifurcation transitions in the nonlinear post-buckling region. Here, we develop lattice models to precisely capture the nonlinear morphology evolution with multiple mode transitions that occur in the film/substrate systems.
Immediate #postdoc position in experimental mechanics of #composites at UT-Austin Mechanical Engineering. The applicant must currently be in the U.S. due to the COVID-19 international travel restrictions. Send your CV to tehrani [at] utexas.edu
We have an open postdoctoral position at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Please follow this link for details: https://tinyurl.com/UCLA-Postdoc
