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Dear Colleagues;

On December 15-18, 2017 International Joint Conference on Civil and Mechanical Engineering (JCCME 2017 http://www.jccme.org/ ) will be held in Hong Kong. The conference is organized by IASED (International Academy of Science and Engineering for Development, www.iased.org) and technical supported by many university and institute.. All over the world are to take part in this conference.

Within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg the materials modeling group of the Institute for General Material Properties is inviting applications for postdocs in the field of atomistic simulations of mechanical properties.  The research projects will focus on the role of interfaces on the plastic deformation and fracture of nanostructured materials.

The Atomistic Materials Modeling group of Prof. Erik Bitzek is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position at the Institute for General Materials Properties within the Department of Materials Science of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany. The objective of the PhD project is to use atomistic simulation methods to study the influence of topological anisotropy on the mechanical properties of inorganic glasses.

The Institute for General Materials Properties of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is seeking outstanding candidates for the project “microK_Ic – Microscopic Origins of Fracture Toughness”, which is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant.

Dear Colleagues, if you are interested in the state-of-the-art R&D in composite materials, you might want to attend the American Society for Composites Anuual Meeting at Purdue (10/22-25, 2017). The registeration is open at https://cdmhub.org/groups/asc2017/registration

Dear Mechanician,

A novel method for the identification of higher-order continua equivalent to a Cauchy composite has been published, as a result of the collaboration between the following two ERC projects:

http://erc-instabilities.unitn.it

http://musam.imtlucca.it/CA2PVM.html

Full paper:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechrescom.2017.07.002

Abstract:

The candidate will work in a project related with smart manufacturing of composite materials by injection/infusion techniques. The project will consist in a joint collaboration between Data Mining Research Group from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and IMDEA Materials Institute.The research activities will be focussed on the application of simulation techniques (computational fluid mechanics) to the optimization of manufacturing process of composite materials by liquid moulding, including the creation of a physical demonstrator.