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Assistant Professor in the area of Civil Engineering, Infrastructure and Systems:

Submitted by jandrade on Sun, 10/21/2018 - 09:50

The Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering (MCE) in the area of Civil Engineering, with emphasis on infrastructure and systems. We are seeking candidates with an outstanding research record and a strong commitment to teaching.

PhD position on architectured materials at SUNY Binghamton

Submitted by Pu Zhang on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 15:32

About the position:

Release of VEMLab v2.2.1 (now it runs in Octave!)

Submitted by Alejandro Orti… on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 06:22

software

vem

vemlab

virtual element method

Matlab

octave

VEMLab: a MATLAB library for the virtual element method

Release of VEMLab v2.2.1

>> From VEMLab v2.2 to VEMLab v2.2.1:

Add option to explicitly switch off all MATLAB figures in function "plot_and_output_options.m".
Facilitate compatibility to run VEMLab in Octave.
Update manual with a guide to running VEMLab in Octave.

Browse and get the code

Faculty Position - Department of Electrical Engineering - Stanford University

Submitted by StanfordEE on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 21:41

The Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (http://ee.stanford.edu/) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the junior level (Assistant or untenured Associate Professor) in the broadly defined field of electrical and computer engineering. The department is especially interested in candidates in robotics, autonomous systems, embedded systems, signal processing, control, optimization, and machine learning.

Tenure-track faculty position in computational mechanics at the University of Vermont (USA)

Submitted by Fred Sansoz on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 15:59

job

assistant professor

computational mechanics

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Vermont invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Mechanical Engineering at the Assistant Professor level for a Fall 2019 start date. Candidates are expected to hold a baccalaureate degree and a doctorate in mechanical engineering or a closely related field.

Society of Experimental Mechanics (Reno, Nevada) (June 3-6, 2019)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 15:41

conference

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit a paper to the 2019 Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Meeting in one of the many sessions in the Fatigue and Fracture Track. See below for further information on these sessions, and please forward this to others who may be interested.

PhD opening for a French speaking European candidate: Design and optimization of structures with composite materials

Submitted by breit on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 12:29

Attention: due to the source of funding, this position is open only to European Union nationals fluent in French language

PROPOSITION DE SUJET DE THESE

Intitulé : Stratégie de conception et d'optimisation de pièces thermoplastiques estampées

Laboratoire d’accueil à l’ONERA, en collaboration avec le CETIM, Nantes et l'Université de Technologie de Compiègne

Multistability and localization in forced cyclic symmetric structures modelled by weakly-coupled Duffing oscillators

Submitted by Antonio Papangelo on Fri, 10/19/2018 - 10:09

research

structural dynamics; nonlinear vibration; contact mechanics; vibration localization

Duffing oscillator;

Many engineering structures are composed of weakly coupled sectors assembled in a cyclic and ideally symmetric configuration, which can be simplified as forced Duffing oscillators. In this paper, we study the emergence of localized states in the weakly nonlinear regime. We show that multiple spatially localized solutions may exist, and the resulting bifurcation diagram strongly resembles the snaking pattern observed in a variety of fields in physics, such as optics and fluid dynamics.