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There is an opening for a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Jay Kruzic’s group at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in Sydney, Australia.  The initial term will be one year, with the potential to extend the appointment for 2-3 years based on performance and availability of funding. 

Key duties:

A cantilever beam with elastic hinge pulled antagonistically by two dielectric elastomer (DE) membranes in tension forms a foldable actuator if one DE membrane is subject to a voltage and releases part of tension. Simply placing parallel rigid bars on the prestressed DE membranes results in enhanced actuators working in pure shear state. We report design, analysis, fabrication and experiment of soft mobile robots that are moved by such foldable DE actuators.

Please see the Website for more details.

Several Ph.D./M.Sc. positions available at the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at the Computational Fluid & Structural Mechanics (CFSM) group of professor Artem Korobenko.

Candidates should have a good communication skills and strong background in numerical methods and programming in one of the languages (Fortran/Python/C/C++) and have solid knowledge in one of the following areas: 

The School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania is growing its faculty by 33% over a five-year period. As part of this initiative, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics is engaged in an aggressive, multi-year hiring effort for multiple tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels.

The international research training group "Integrated Engineering of continuous-discontinuous long fiber reinforced polymer structures” offers one post-doc position at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Discontinuous long fiber reinforced polymer structures with local continuous fiber reinforcements represent an important class of lightweight materials. This class of materials has a significant potential for energy savings due to the high specific stiffness and strength as well as the variety of design options in diverse technical applications, e.g., in vehicle construction.

Tuning of a piezoelectric vibration absorber attached to a damped structure

By : Payam Soltani, Gaetan Kerschen, Gilles Tondreau, Arnaud Deraemaeker

Abstract: