I have an opening for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University. The postdoctoral fellow will work with PhD students and experimental collaborators on a range of projects dealing with coupled field phenomena and fracture/damage mechanics. Projects here involve collaborations with Duke's medical school as well as researchers at other institutions and the national laboratories.
The Taylor-Quinney coefficient is universally understood as a manifestation of the stored energy of cold work, and one therefore assumes a one to one correspoindence between its value and the microstructural state of the deformed material. In the attached letter (to appear in Phys Rev Letters), we question this assumption by bringing new experimental evidence that the thermomechanical conversion is a function of the kinetics of the process and not of the final microstructure only.
Polytechnique Montréal is looking for a post-doctoral fellow having a very strong training in continuum mechanics/numerical methods to work on the phase field modelling of damage in materials. This one-year project will consist in deploying and applying an existing phase field code at two industrial partners: one in optics and the other in aerospace.
Please send your CVs at my address: martin.levesque(at)polymtl.ca
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2019.
Special Issue "Entropy Based Fatigue, Fracture, Failure Prediction and Structural Health Monitoring"
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/fatigue
The Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester invites applications for a non-tenure, instructional track full time faculty position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Applicants must be dedicated teachers with outstanding educational accomplishments in broad areas of mechanical engineering including design, modern simulation techniques including finite element, finite difference and multi-body dynamics, familiarity in both solid and fluid mechanics, energy and precision engineering and contemporary manufacturing techniques. This faculty position includes responsibilities primarily in undergraduate instruction, with opportunities to participate in graduate education, as well as in collaborative and independent research. The Individual will also be required to participate in various departmental committees as well as advise undergraduates. A preference will be given to those applicants with a strong record of instruction, course development and hands-on lab experience. The successful candidate should anticipate excellent interactions with faculty, staff and undergraduate mechanical engineering students. The mechanical engineering department is located in the Hopeman Engineering Building on the University’s River Campus.
The initial appointment will be for 2 years and is renewable. The anticipated start date is July 2020.
Minimum requirements: PhD degree preferably in mechanical engineering and previous teaching experience. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
To apply, please submit a single PDF file consisting of the following:
Letter of interest, complete curriculum vitae
Detailed statement of teaching philosophy
List of courses where you participated in instruction, class size, staff (TA’s, graders, etc.)
Please include your level of responsibility for instruction and course development. Include at least 2 references that are familiar with your teaching experiences.
The department is fully committed to increasing the diversity of the campus community and the curriculum. Candidates who can contribute to that goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths and experiences in this area. The University of Rochester is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
EOE / Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Disabled
Dear Colleagues,
Following up on ASME IMECE 2019 last week, please find attached the slides and minutes of the Soft Materials technical committee meeting.
Postdoc positions are available at Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. Those possessing PhDs in the area of computational mechanics, experimental mechanics and material science are sought. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in advanced numerical methods, surrogate modeling/surrogate-based optimization, machine learning methods, uncertainty quantification, data-driven design and optimization，etc.
Job responsibilities (2-year recruitment)
Several Ph.D. positions are open for Spring/Fall 2020 in the Advanced Hierarchical Materials by Design Lab at Louisiana Tech University on multiscale modeling of additively manufactured parts and processes. During this project, the candidate will have the opportunity to collaborate with NASA research centers, national labs, and different universities across the nation.
Understanding electrical contact resistance
Electrical contact resistance at interfaces between pairs of rough surfaces is of great importance in the performance of diverse systems, particularly in miniaturised electromechanical systems containing switches.
In this study, the role of pressure and surface structure is explored with a view towards gaining a beter understanding of electrical contact resistance.
One postdoctoral and multiple PhD positions are available in the Computational Cardiovascular Bioengineering Lab (C2BL) at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Please see the attached flyer for descriptions of some of the projects.
Interested candidates with a strong background in programming and computational modeling and sound knowledge of cardiovascular physiology are encouraged to apply. For PhD positions, please apply for the upcoming admission cycle as laid out here
