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Three Research Studentships in Impact Mechanics (Computational Modelling, Experimentation and Engineering)
Summary
This studentship is being jointly offered by the University of Oxford and Rolls Royce plc under the EPSRC Industrial CASE award scheme.
The research will be focused on the development of novel numerical modelling methodologies for simulation of the response of titanium alloys to impact loading, as a part of a long term collaboration with designers of large gas turbine engines for civil aviation.
Faculty Positions in Mechanical Engineering at University of Connecticut
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut is growing the faculty to develop existing strengths of the department and expand in exciting new directions. This year, the department invites applications for multiple tenure-track or tenured faculty positions focused on developing innovative material systems, mathematical and computer modeling, as well as analysis and fabrication approaches in support of advanced and digital manufacturing, and with a strong emphasis on scientific rigor.
SEM 2018 Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials June 4-7
The Time-Dependent Materials Technical Division of the Society for Experimental Mechanics invites you to submit an abstract to Track 2,“Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials” at the SEM International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (Greenville, SC, June 4-7, 2018).
[Extended Deadline: Oct. 22] 16th European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC-16) Nantes, France, March 26-28, 2018
Dear Colleagues, 16th European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC-16) will be held in Nantes, France, March 26th-28th, 2018. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a session (S9) to bring together experts in modelling, simulation, manufacturing and experimental investigation in the field of Functional and architectured materials to present and discuss recent advances.
Faculty Positions in Mechanical Science and Engineering at UIUC
The Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for multiple faculty positions at all ranks. Candidates are sought in all technical sub-disciplines of mechanical science and engineering, including design, thermosciences, solid and fluid mechanics, and dynamics and control, with particular interest in the broad application areas of manufacturing, energy and sustainability, and robotics and cyber-physical systems.
Stress distribution is not accurate of ballastless track in ABAQUS
Dear riends.
I have been trying to do is that developing a model of railway track using Abaqus software in order to check the dynamic responses of subgrade layer. For that, I have created all layers of the complete track using different specific materials and TIE constrains for each layer. In addition, I have created in the interaction between wheel and rail with firctional interaction. I have tried two steps, step 1 is static general and step 2 dynamic implicit and I am using time amplitude.
Time integration scheme for XFEM? (dynamic crack propagation)
Hello everyone,
Can somebody suggest an implicit/explicit time integration scheme when the matrices involved(M,C,K) are time dependent? (They change at every time step because of the crack tip enrichment functions which are time dependent).
I used the implicit Newmark scheme (trapezoidal/constant average acceleartion method) but just discovered that all my matrices (M,C,K) are time dependent where the original scheme is probably for constant M,C and K matrices. I used the scheme as in reference [1].
Call For Abstracts: USNC/TAM 2018 Symposium "Growth and Remodeling of Living Matter"
Dear Colleagues:
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to Symposium: Growth and Remodeling of Living Matter, as part of the 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM 2018). The conference will be hosted by Northwestern University, at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare from June 5 to June 9, 2018.
Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the area of mechanical behavior of advanced structural materials. Although candidates at the assistant professor level are preferred, exceptionally well qualified candidates will be considered for appointment at the rank of associate or full professor.