This is the preprint of an article that will appear in Computational Materials Science (doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2019.109217)

A 3D phase field dislocation dynamics model for body-centered cubic crystals

Xiaoyao Peng (Carnegie Mellon University), Nithin Mathew (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Irene J. Beyerlein (University of California, Santa Barbara), Kaushik Dayal (Carnegie Mellon University), Abigail Hunter (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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Mechanical Engineering Instructor (Mechanics/Structural Dynamics)

Location:  University, MS, US, 38677

Department:  Mechanical Engineering (10000925)

Employee Designation:  Regular Full-time (Benefits Eligible)

Position Description 

One fully funded Ph.D. position Starting 2020 Fall in YIN group at NCSU

The research program will focus on soft robotics and mechanical metamaterials. The research will involve a combination of experiments (3D printing, mechanical testing, materials synthesis, and fabrication etc), analytical modeling, and numerical simulation methods (mainly finite element method).

We report a manufacturing technology, called conformal additive stamp (CAS) printing and show that it can be used to reliably manufacture electronic devices with 3D shapes. Our CAS printing approach employs a pneumatically inflated elastomeric balloon as a conformal stamping medium to pick up pre-fabricated electronic devices and print them onto 3D surfaces to create devices with curvy shapes including electrically small antennas, hemispherical solar cells and smart contact lenses.

We have multiple tenure track faculty openings in mechanics of materials and structures at the Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering. To receive full consideration please apply by November 1^st, 2019.  

Detailed instructions may be found here:

https://ae.gatech.edu/applying-tenure-track-faculty-positions-guggenhei…

Regards,

Claudio Di Leo

We have multiple openings for Lecturers and Professors of the Practices in mechanics of materials and structures at the Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering. To receive full consideration please apply by November 1^st, 2019.  

Detailed instructions may be found here:

https://ae.gatech.edu/applying-lecturer-and-professor-practice-positions

Regards,

Claudio Di Leo

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit a paper to the 2020 Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Meeting in one of the many sessions in the Fatigue and Fracture Track. See below for further information on these sessions, and please forward this to others who may be interested.

We have tenure track faculty positions open in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California Merced. Best to apply before the application review period begins on Oct 16:

https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF00822

Amit Acharya              Roger Fosdick

(To appear in Comptes Rendus - Me'canique)

Some implications of the simplest accounting of defects of compatibility in the velocity field on the structure of the classical Navier-Stokes equations are explored, leading to connections between classical elasticity, the elastic theory of defects, plasticity theory, and classical fluid mechanics.

Dear Colleagues,

Here is our recently published article on Symmetry-adapted real-space density functional theory for large nanotubes and bending deformations of thin sheets

Title: Symmetry-adapted real-space density functional theory for cylindrical geometries: Application to large group-IV nanotubes

 Authors: Swarnava Ghosh, Amartya S. Banerjee, Phanish Suryanarayana*

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