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Funded Ph.D. Opportunity in Additive Manufacturing

Submitted by Jun Li on

A fully supported Ph.D. position is open immediately in the Advanced Manufacturing Research Group within the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), starting in Spring or Fall 2025. Our interdisciplinary research focuses on advancing additive manufacturing technologies for high-performance composite materials, with applications spanning aerospace, automotive, electronics, and biomedical industries.

Postdoctoral Research Position in Machine Learning-Assisted Polymer Design

Submitted by Cheng Yan on

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Southern University and A&M College (SU), in collaboration with the Department of Mechanical Industrial Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU), is seeking a motivated postdoctoral researcher. The research will focus on the design of multifunctional polymers, including shape memory polymers, vitrimers, and flame-retardant materials, utilizing advanced machine learning techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct research in machine learning-assisted polymer design.

PhD position at the University of Minnesota (Stefano Gonella's group)

Submitted by stefanogonella on

PhD positions are  available in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella at the University of Minnesota. The positions are in the general area of mechanics and physics of solids, with emphasis on mechanical and elastic metamaterials and wave physics. 

Current topics of interest include:

1)       Topological mechanics and metamaterials

2)       Optimization of metamaterials and metastructures

3)       Mechanics of lattices

Postdoc positions at South China University of Technology

Submitted by YINGJUN WANG on

Two-year/three-year Postdoc Positions are available at South China University of Technology. South China University of Technology (SCUT) is a leading educational institution in China. Located in the city of Guangzhou, a thriving metropolis in South China.

Deadline Oct 15th, 2024: Call for Nominations for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

It is my pleasure to solicit nominations for the "Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty". This award, launched in 2012, is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. While interdisciplinary work that bridges mechanics with physics, chemistry, biology and other disciplines is encouraged, the ideal awardee will demonstrate clear inspiration from mechanics in his/her research.

POD–ANN as digital twins for surge line thermal stratification

Submitted by Jinxiong Zhou on

This paper describes a hybrid proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and artificial neural network (ANN) strategy to construct digital twins of a pressurizer surge line under thermal stratification conditions. The one-way coupled conjugate heat transfer and thermal stress analysis was conducted by use of parametric modeling and the introduction of the inverse distance weighted interpolation for the grid mapping, which allows for the mapped grids to have the same number of nodes regardless of variations of surge line geometries.