Blog posts

https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/aab4e2 In the 50 years that succeeded Richard Feynman’s exposition of the idea that there is "plenty of room at the bottom" for manipulating individual atoms for the synthesis and manufacturing processing of materials, the materials-by-design paradigm is being developed gradually through synergistic integration of experimental material synthesis and characterization with predictive computational modeling and optimization.

Our group has recently published a paper describing a new method for micromechanical testing of cement paste. The paper was published in "Engineering Fracture Mechanics". Full paper can be accessed at:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324510125_Combined_experimenta…

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Biomechanics & Biomechanical Testing

Full blog post can be found here. 

Key concepts for medical device design include biomechanics, biocompatibility, and biofunctionality. This post will go over the mechanics of an exemplar biological tissue, the bone, and mechanical testing of biomaterials that are used in developing medical devices and equipment.

As requested - on behalf of Dr. Leslie T Mushongera 

(As received)

We are currently looking for motivated candidates who are interested in pursuing their Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Nevada, Reno starting from Fall 2018.

Interests can be in any one of the following

1. Phase field modeling of microstructural evolution in metallic alloys (with a core focus on solidification and solid-state transformations),

A new PhD position is vacant at the Section of Composites and Materials Mechanics of the Department of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The PhD project will concern damage tolerance of composite materials subjected to static and cyclic loading. The objective is to creacte enhanced fracture resistance by facilitating the formation of multiple cracks with large-scale fiber bridging along the interfaces in a layered composite by controlled mechanical properties by surface treatments.

SUSTech (https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/) is a newly found research university in Shenzhen, China (Shenzhen can be considered as Silicon Valley in China.). Please check out the attached pdf file for the introduction of SUSTech and the PhD scholarship. 

These fully supported PhD positions are available for 2020 Fall semester, it is still in time to apply.  The PhD scholarship is RMB126,700 (Approx. USD18,098)/year, plus a possible performance-based award of RMB20,000 (Approx. USD2,857)/year. 

This VIDEO  gives a  very intuitive explanation of stress concentration  with an analogy and an experimental demonstration.

Dear colleagues,

on behalf of the organizers, I would like to bring to your attention the training course for Ph.D. students, engineers, and researchers interested in acquiring the working knowledge of OOFEM, an open-source object-oriented finite element package that has been developed at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague for more than twenty years.

Job Summary

Altair is seeking a Software Engineer to assist in the development of OptiStruct, a commercial finite element code mainly involved in the structural dynamics and acoustics domain. The candidate will be mainly responsible for writing software in Fortran and C++. It is also desirable for candidates to be familiar with the noise/vibration/harshness (NVH) arena. Click here to learn about Altair’s OptiStruct: http://www.altairhyperworks.com/product/OptiStruct.

Responsibilities: