experiments

PhD scholarship in Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

Submitted by Kostas Danas on Sat, 03/11/2017 - 15:18

One Ph.D. position is now available starting October 2017 on harnessing instabilities in magnetorheological elastomers. The PhD will be pursued in the Solid Mechanics Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. The potential student will work on the development of new experimental procedures and numerical models for the fabrication and testing of new magnetorheological elastomeric devices that operate in the postbifurcation regime by proper combination of mechanical and magnetic loadings.

Post-doctoral positions at National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Submitted by Shailendra on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 04:40

Modeling and Simulation

discrete element method

Starting April 2016, we will have openings for two post-doctoral fellow positions in experimental and computational mechanics of advanced polymers. These positions will support a new research program between Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and National University of Singapore (NUS) funded by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). The project focuses on synthesizing, characterizing, modeling, and simulating the thermo-mechanical behavior of polymers with covalent adaptable networks (CANs), e.g. vitrimers.

Yield stress fluid flows

Submitted by Korporaald on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 11:02

A Virtual Special Issue of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics devoted to yield stress fluid flows has just been released. With this first Virtual Special Issue of the journal we inaugurate a practice, which we plan to make regular, of highlighting developments on a particular subject of relevance in order to guide and encourage research in the field.

An experimental/numerical investigation into the main driving force for crack propagation in uni-directional fibre-reinforced composite laminae

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on Sun, 09/21/2014 - 09:56

http://hdl.handle.net/10993/12316

Paper: On finding cohesive law parameters for foam-metal interfaces

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on Tue, 02/18/2014 - 03:48

A detailed report of our work on trying to find cohesive laws for interfacial fracture is attached. I will add the experimental data after a shorter version of this report has been published.

The reason for posting this report on iMechanica is so that people who want to replicate the tests or perform similar tests know what is involved. As we have found out, many details and potential problems faced by an experimentalist are hard to determine from the concise papers that are typically published as journal articles.

Johns Hopkins Faculty Position in Mechanical Engineering

Submitted by ktramesh on Tue, 12/17/2013 - 15:01

job

mechanics of materials

Modeling and Simulation

experiments

assistant professor

extreme conditions

17 th National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics June 15-20 (Michigan State University)

Submitted by Ahmed Elbanna on Mon, 11/04/2013 - 17:10

adhesion

fracture

friction

constitutive modeling

experiments

multiscale modeling

Dear all,

I would like to bring to your attention the following minisymposium that is organized as part of the NCTAM 17 (Michigan State University, June 15-20, 2014)

http://www.usnctam2014.org/minisymposium/friction-adhesion-and-fracture…

Friction, Adhesion and Fracture: From microscale physics to macroscale response

iMechanica Journal Club (October 2013): Contortion of thin elastic rods

Submitted by Pedro Reis on Mon, 10/07/2013 - 00:00

geometric nonlinearities

mechanical instabilities

Ph.D. Position on Magnetorheological Elastomers at Ecole Polytechnique, France

Submitted by Kostas Danas on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 15:12

research

numerical methods

magnetorheological Elastomers (MRE)

experiments

One Ph.D. position is now available starting October 2013 on magnetorheological elastomers in the Solid Mechanics Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique, France. The potential student will work on the development of new experimental procedures and high fidelity numerical models for the understanding and constitutive description of microstructured magnetorheological solids. Students with strong interest in new coupled problems and strong background in engineering, physics or/and mechanics are encouraged to apply.