computational mechanics

Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor (A182-12MY) position at the Australian National University (ANU)

Term of Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 15 July, 2012

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A postdoctoral fellowship funded by the US Air Force is available at the University of Southampton (UK) to work in the area of computational mechanics applied to biomimetics and bio-inspired structures for military applications. 



CLOSING DATE: 18 June 2012 (Earliest starting date: July 1st 2012)



ONLINE APPLICATION:

https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=121312BX

Two postdoctoral fellow positions at Northeastern University are available immediately. First position is focused on the analysis of the nonlinear behavior of soft matter using computational mechanics and the development and analysis of biomimetic materials and structural systems. Second position is focused on computational and solid mechanics. The research will be carried out at the High Performance Materials and Structures Laboratory (http://www.hpmsl.neu.edu/).

The 22nd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials will be held at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA on September 24-26, 2012. You can find information on the conference at http://iwcmm22.jhu.edu/. Please submit your abstracts at http://iwcmm22.jhu.edu/ at your earliest convenience. The deadline for abstract submission is June 15, 2012.

Chair

Somnath Ghosh

Co-chair

Siegfried Schmauder

One postdoc and several PhD student positions are available at Arizona State University for fall 2012. Research background in at least one of the following areas is preferred.

1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures

2. Computational mechanics and micromechanics

3. Damage detection for composite materials

Dear friends and colleagues,

This is to inform you of the minisymposium

Plasticity: Bridging the Scales from Micro to Macro

to be organized at the 22nd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM XXII) and request you to consider submitting an abstract. The workshop will be held in Baltimore, MD, USA during September 24-26, 2012.

3 PhD positions are now available at the Department of Innovation Engineering at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. Funding is provided by the European Research Council Starting Researcher Grant project "INTERFACES-Mechanical Modeling of Interfaces in Advanced Materials and Structures".

The successful applicant will work on topics related to computational methods for interface modeling, isogeometric analysis, and multiscale methods.

Applicants should possess the following qualifications/attributes:

Read Prof Alistair Borthwick's (University College Cork, Ireland) March 2012 editorial for ICE journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics for free here. Link http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/eacm.2012.165.1.1