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Research Studentship in Impact Engineering
Development of Experimental and Modelling Methodologies for Force Fusing in Structural Dynamics
4-year funded D.Phil studentship, available from January 2017 (subject to eligibility requirements)
Further information: http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/study-here/postgraduate/studentships/research-s…
Extrusion, slide, and rupture of an elastomeric seal
Elastomeric seals are essential to two great technological advances in oilfields: horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. This paper describes a method to study elastomeric seals by using the pressure-extrusion curve (i.e., the relation between the drop of pressure across a seal and the volume of extrusion of the elastomer). Emphasis is placed on a common mode of failure found in oilfields: leak caused by a crack across the length of a long seal. We obtain an analytical solution of large elastic deformation, which is analogous to the Poiseuille flow of vi
Tenure-Track Faculty Position on Multiscale Modeling at Villanova University (in Philadelphia)
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Multiscale Modeling of Advanced Materials and/or Manufacturing Processes
Tenure-track faculty position in Mechanical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
The Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is inviting applicants for a Tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the area of thermal-fluids to start in August 2017.
Post-wrinkle bifurcations in elastic bilayers with modest contrast in modulus
Post-wrinkle bifurcations in elastic bilayers with modest contrast in modulus
Anesia Auguste, Lihua Jin, Zhigang Suo, Ryan C. Hayward
Extreme Mechanics Letters
New background of micromechanics of composites
Dear Colleagues,
One proposes a new background of micromechanics (NBM) of composites. NBM offers opportunities for a fundamental jump in multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of random heterogeneous media with drastically improved accuracy of local field estimations. In so doing, a difference of linear effective properties estimated by the use of either the new background or the classical one (proposed in 1830-1880) is not significant. See the abstract attached describing a list of 40 papers and conference presentations dedicated to the NBM.
A slip wave solution in anti-plane elasticity
Abstract:
It is shown that a slip wave solution exists for anti-plane sliding of an elastic layer on an elastic half-space. It is a companion solution to the well-known Love wave solution.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw464
https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01662
In Press, Geophysical Journal International, 2016
Society of Engineering Science - 2017 Medalists and Fellows
The Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science is pleased to announce the names of the 2017 Medalists and newly elected Fellows.
2017 SES Young Investigator Medals:
Oscar Lopez-Pamies (University of Illinois) for “Seminal contributions to the understanding of cavitation phenomena in rubber and the elastic dielectric behavior of filled elastomers by means of novel iterative homogenization techniques as well development of effective constitutive model for hyperelastic materials.
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