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Postdoctoral position on Petroleum Geomechanics: Damage and Failure in Porous Media, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University

Submitted by Arash Dahi on Mon, 02/02/2015 - 16:43

A one-year postdoctoral position is available at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University. The successful candidates are expected to possess a PhD degree in Mechanics or Civil engineering or science and have experience in the area of computational mechanics or finite elements and continuum mechanics. The candidates will be working in the area of hydraulic fracturing, poroelasticity, and mechanics applied to fluid flow in fractured porous media. Experience in damage mechanics is plus. This position is extendable for another year.

CERMODEL2015 CONGRESS "Modelling and Simulation meet Innovation in Ceramics Technology" Trento, Italy, July 1-3, 2015 and special session to celebrate Prof. Hueckel's 70th birthday

Submitted by Davide Bigoni on Mon, 02/02/2015 - 16:20

Webpage: http://events.unitn.it/en/cermodel2015

Deadline for 1 page-abstract submission: February 15, 2015

About Myself

Submitted by ldcclinic on Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:01

Myself Dr. Sunil Chopra, I am the Clinical Director and Founder of the London Dermatology Clinic located on Wimpole Street in central London.

I had my training at University College London as an undergraduate and did my medical training at University College London and Chase Farms Hospital. I also did one year training in chest medicine at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

Request for post doc position

Submitted by Nebatti on Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:58

job

PhD scholarship in multiscale modelling of bio-system

Submitted by TongLi on Mon, 02/02/2015 - 03:27

A Phd scholarship in 'Advanced Modelling for the Biomaterial/Biosystem Interaction' is available in the Laboratory for Advanced Modelling and Simulation in Engineering and Science at Queensland University of Technology.

ASME 2015 Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, McMAT2015

Submitted by soumik.banerjee on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 18:45

conference

Symposium 3: Computational Nanotechnology

June 29 - July 1

Location: Seattle Washington

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to February 23d 2015

The conference website can be found at: http://www.asmeconferences.org/mcmat2015/

Ken Kamrin is the recipient of the 2014 Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 05:11

It gives me great pleasure to announce the outcome of the 2014 competition for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. This award is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. The selection committee consisted of: K. Ravi-chandar (UT Austin), Huajian Gao (Brown University), Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech), Roger Fosdick (Minnesota University), and Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University).

Discussion of fracture paper #10 - Searching for the length scale of stress corrosion

Submitted by ESIS on Fri, 01/30/2015 - 15:28

According to the Swedish Plant Inspectorate the major part of all reported fracture related failures in Sweden are due to stress corrosion. I guess it is more or less a reality everywhere. The association with accidents is probably because it comes without warning and usually at surprisingly low loads. Just a mm sized spot of decomposing grease is enough to create a locally extremely acid environment. In an otherwise friendly environment this often not even considered as a possibility by the designer.

The paper for this discussion is: