Freeze casting presents exciting new avenues towards high performance materials with aligned pore structures.
Bone scaffolds, highly elastic composites and nacre mimetic materials can all be produced by means of freeze casting methods.
This comprehensive review presents recent development in terms of materials and processing
Vitrimers are a groundbreaking development in polymer chemistry. This new class of polymers is neither thermoset, nor thermoplastic, but inherits properties from both polymer classes. Vitrimers were "invented" by Prof. Leibler in Paris in 2011 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrimers).
Many applications can be imagined, but the application of vitrimers as the polymer matrix in fibre-reinforced composites, is particularly attractive, because the recycling of fibre-reinforced composites could be drastically improved.
Transportation of heavy acidic fluids is often done with specifically designed lined pipelines. The pipelines typically have an outer steel wall (thickness ~15 mm) and an inner ceramic coating (thickness ~1 mm). The proper functioning of such lined pipelines is almost exclusively determined by the inner ceramic coating. In case there would be a leak in the ceramic coating, the acidic fluid will corrode through the outer steel wall in a matter of hours, leading to a full shutdown of the industrial plant.
We have two new PhD positions to work on Mechanics and Manufacturing/characterization of nanomaterials and nanocomposites with starting dates of Fall 2020 or Spring 2021. A stipend, full tuition and health insurance will be provided.
Thermodynamics 2.0 Conference [online] has waived the registration fee.
The conference is about Thermodynamics in relation to other disciplines including Mechanics.
My talk on Wednesday at noon is about the Unification of Mechanics and Thermodynamics.
https://iaisae.org/index.php/speakers/
We would like to announce An ECCOMAS Advanced online Course on Computational Structural Dynamics 2020, shortcourse2020.it.cas.cz . The short course on computational structural dynamics in the form of the webinar will be held from August 31 to September 4, 2020.
The program of the online course is available on the link http://shortcourse2020.it.cas.cz/im/im/page/program .
The SES Annual Technical Meeting will be held virtually this year to ensure the safety of the meeting participants. We look forward to providing a creative platform for you to share your work and exchange ideas! The 2020 Virtual Technical Meeting will be held Sept 29-Oct 1. More info to come! We will also post updates to our website, https://socengsci.org and to Twitter @SocEngScience .
Several PhD openings at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy.
Research topics includes (PhD in Engineering of complex systems, see attachment F, and Material, Structure and Nanotechnology engineering, see attachment E):
- Soft robotics and microbots
- Tribology of smart materials
- Polymers friction
- Tribology of tissue/machine interfaces
- Wearable and implantable nanotechnological devices
- Water-fog harvesting
- Augmented tactile friction
- Mechanisms for space applications
- Smart mobility
A postdoc position is available in the area of granular mechanics and discrete element modeling (DEM) of biomass particles in support of a multidisciplinary research project between Clemson University and the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
