An Australian Research Council funded PhD Scholarship is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Australia in the area of computational mechanics. The objective of this project is to develop a multi-scale bifurcation-based decohesion model within the framework of the Material Point Method (MPM), one of the meshfree methods, for simulating glass fragmentation under blast loading. The proposed multi-scale decohesion model will be calibrated by combining molecular dynamics and continuum mechanics approaches, and the simulation results will be verified by available experimental data.
More information can be found at http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/research/download/phd-scholarship-multi-scale.pdf
The position will remain open until filled. If interested, please contact Dr. L. Shen at Luming.Shen [at] eng.monash.edu.au (Luming[dot]Shen[at]eng[dot]monash[dot]edu[dot]au).