2 funded PhD positions are 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.
Duke University will host on April 24, 2020 the 31th Annual Robert J. Melosh Competition for best papers by graduate (or recently graduated) students.
The deadline for extended abstract submission is January 20, 2020.
Students interested in participating can find more details about the format of the competition and submission requirements at
http://www.cee.duke.edu/melosh
and
The Department of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook University has started a search for 3 tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant professor or associate professor level with a desired start date of September 2020. We seek to fill the positions (one each) in the following areas:
1. Geotechnical Engineering. For this position, we are primarily interested in applicants who have expertise in energy geotechnics and coastal geotechnics. Also of interest is environmental geotechnics.
We present a one-dimensional variant of the Irving-Kirkwood-Noll procedure to derive microscopic expressions of internal contact force and moment in one-dimensional nanostructures. We show that these expressions must contain both the potential and kinetic parts: just the potential part does not yield meaningful continuum results. We further specialize these expressions for helically repeating one-dimensional nanostructures for their extension, torsion and bending deformation. As the Irving-Kirkwood-Noll procedure does not yield expressions of stiffnesses, we resort to a thermodynamic equilibrium approach to first obtain the Helmholtz free energy of the supercell of helically repeating nanostructures. We then obtain expressions of axial force, twisting moment, bending moment and the associated stiffnesses by taking the first and second derivatives of the Helmholtz free energy with respect to conjugate strain measures. The derived expressions are used in finite temperature molecular dynamics simulation to study extension, torsion and bending of single-walled carbon nanotubes and their buckling.
The article will soon appear in the Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids. The same can be accessed at the following link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337873624_Microscopic_definiti…
Dear Colleagues:
We cordially invite your participation in the mini-symposium
“Advances of Machine Learning in Material Design, Modeling and Processing” (MS226)
at the 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV) to be held on July 19-24, 2020 in Paris, France. This is a great opportunity for researchers, graduate students and post docs who are working on this emergent field to share their experiences and discuss on recent progress.
Fully funded PhD positions in the area of meta-materials, computational mechanics and wave propagation available in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University. Research will be in topics related to the mechanics of metamaterials and the mechanics of amorphous or granular media.
Students often have a tough time understanding the crack driving force in an elementary course on fracture mechanics.
A recent free access article has been published on a fluid analogy to the crack driving force and the Riabouchinsky free streamline problem for ideal fluid flow around two plates. Hopefully this analogy can aid in the visualization.
The URL where this article can be downloaded is found at 10.1515/jmbm-2019-0011
The Materials Theory Group at the School of Materials Engineering of Purdue University has a post-doctoral opening in the area of modeling of thermal transport in crystalline solids. The postdoc will use Boltzmann Transport Equation approach to investigate the phonon and electron thermal transport in crystalline solids with defects. Applicants with closely related theory background in physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, or other majors are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate is one who is strongly interested in the fundamental concepts of thermal transport and related computational modeling, and must have excellent programming skills. To apply, please send a curriculum vita with list of publications and the names and contact information of two references to Professor Anter El-Azab (aelazab [at] purdue.edu). The cover letter should explain the relevance of the applicant background to the postdoc research topic above. This position is part of the DOE funded Energy Frontiers Research Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation (TETI), and the postdoc is expected to collaborate with a large team of theorists and experimentalists. The position is available now and will remain open until filled.
The Materials Theory Group at the School of Materials Engineering of Purdue University has a post-doctoral opening in the area of modeling of thermal transport in crystalline solids. The postdoc will use Boltzmann Transport Equation approach to investigate the phonon and electron thermal transport in crystalline solids with defects. Applicants with closely related theory background in physics, materials science, mechanical engineering, or other majors are encouraged to apply. The ideal candidate is one who is strongly interested in the fundamental concepts of thermal transport and related computational modeling, and must have excellent programming skills. To apply, please send a curriculum vita with list of publications and the names and contact information of two references to Professor Anter El-Azab (aelazab [at] purdue.edu). The cover letter should explain the relevance of the applicant background to the postdoc research topic above. This position is part of the DOE funded Energy Frontiers Research Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation (TETI), and the postdoc is expected to collaborate with a large team of theorists and experimentalists. The position is available now and will remain open until filled.
I attach the slides of my talks at last week’s MRS meeting in Boston on two topics:
Fatigue-resistant stretchable materials
Integrated soft materials
Advances on these topics made by several groups break grounds and likely reach far. The available time limited my talks to recent works of my own group and collaborators. The slides may serve as a graphical reminder of papers to check out. Several recent reviews may help to connect to broad literature.
