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IMPACT is an international Multiscale Materials Testing Research Group at Tampere University. Our work focuses on microscopic and macroscopic mechanical testing of materials at different strain rates and temperatures. We focus on improving the basic scientific understanding of material behaviour under extreme conditions and solving practical industrial problems involving high rate material deformation. IMPACT is looking to hire a Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in the field of Materials Science to work on micromechanics of materials studied under extreme deformation conditions. 

INRIA is opening PhD and Post-doc positions. 

see https://www.inria.fr/en/centre/saclay/overview/offers/phd-positions/campaign

Colleagues:

The technical meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) will be held at Washington University in St. Louis on October 13-15, 2019. As part of this meeting we are organizing Symposium 7.4 on “Mechanics of Electrochemically Active Materials”. The deadline for abstract submission is April 30

Journal Club for April 2019: Self-Healing Soft Materials: from Theoretical Modeling to Additive Manufacturing

Qiming Wang

University of Southern California

1. Introduction

PhD positions are available at the University of Minnesota in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella. The positions are in the general area of mechanics and physics of solids, with emphasis on mechanical metamaterials. The position ideally starts in fall 2019, although a later start date (for example, in January 2020) can be considered.

Topics of current interest are:

1) Topological metamaterials;

2) Nonlinear and soft metamaterials;

3) Tunable and programmable metastructures.

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The Computational Physics and Mechanics Laboratory (CPML) at Vanderbilt University is seeking one PhD student interested in the area of computational fracture and damage mechanics.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2019.03.062 This work presents the multilayer transverse flow carbon nanotube (CNT) membrane (TFCM), which resembles vertically aligned CNT arrays, as an alternative candidate for efficient desalination. Using molecular dynamics, this work shows that multilayer TFCM can provide permeability and salt rejection on par with its single layer counterpart.