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PhD positions in mechanics of advanced materials at the University of Minnesota

Submitted by stefanogonella on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 14:26

PhD positions in the broad area of mechanics of advanced materials and metamaterials are available in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella (http://personal.cege.umn.edu/~gonella/) at the University of Minnesota.

Current topics of interest include: 1) Nonlinear metamaterials, including soft architected lattices; 2) Topological and non-reciprocal metamaterials; 3) Tunable and programmable multifunctional materials and structures.

PhD - Lorient (France)

Submitted by S. Thuillier on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 13:49

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Virtual forming of metallic sheet materials: influence of complex strain paths in service life prediction

EMMC-16, March 26th-28th, 2018, Nantes, France

Submitted by Stephan Rudykh on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 13:30

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European Mechanics of Materials Conference

Functional and architectured materials

Dear Colleagues,

Post-doc position - Lorient - France

Submitted by S. Thuillier on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 13:12

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Physics and mechanics of beta TiMo alloys - Application to forming

The aim of this project is to investigate and model the thermo-mechanical behavior of beta-stabilized titanium alloys from room temperature up to 500°C, as a function of the chemical composition and up to rupture (cf. attached file).

Funded PhD and Research Fellow position in Computational and Theoretical Solid Mechanics

Submitted by Prashant Saxena on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 07:39

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PHD position

solid mechanics

There are vacancies for the following positions

Fully funded PhD, and
Research Fellow

in the research groups of Prashant Saxena and Chinthapenta R Viswanath in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at IIT Hyderabad.

Interested candidates may please refer to the attachments for details on how to apply.

Last date for application is 30 June 2017.

Professor Walter Noll

Submitted by Amit Acharya on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 15:01

Below is a message from the Secretary of the Society for Natural Philosophy. A formative influence of our field passes on.

Dear Members of the Society for Natural Philosophy.

We are sorry to be the bearers of sad news, but on Tuesday June 6th, 2017, Walter Noll passed away at his home in Pittsburgh surrounded by his wife Marilyn and two children, Victoria and Peter. He was a founding member and a past Chairman of the Society. He made major contributions to the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. There will be a memorial service at Carnegie Mellon University, which has yet to be scheduled.

Secretary,

Wladimir Neves.

Investigating phase formations in cast AlFeCoNiCu high entropy alloys by combination of computational modeling and experiments

Submitted by mohsenzaeem on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 13:54

Selection and thermal stability of phases are important in design of high entropy alloys (HEA). In this study, phase formations in cast AlFeCoNiCu HEA were investigated. Ab-initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations were used to determine crystal structures of phases at different temperatures in equiatomic composition of AlFeCoNiCu. The AIMD results showed a possible coexistence of a face-centered cubic (fcc) phase and a bodycentered cubic (bcc) phase at the room temperature and indicated stabilization of a single fcc phase above 1070 K at the equiatomic composition of AlFeCoNiCu.

Regarding implementation of an integration scheme which avoids the need of contact surface segmentation.

Submitted by Vishal Agrawal on Thu, 06/08/2017 - 13:33

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computational contact mechanics

Dear All,

As FEA is one of the most popular methods for the treatment of contact problems. In that, the overall contact surface is discretized a number of segments and contact integrals are evaluated in a segment-wise manner. In 2005 Fischer and Wriggers [1] presented an integration method which avoids the need of contact surface segmentations and enables the evaluation of contact integrals directly at the slave nodes of contact bodies.