Helices are ubiquitous building blocks in natural and engineered systems. Previous studies showed that helical ribbon morphology can result from anisotropic driving forces and geometric misorientation between the principal axes of the driving forces and the geometric axes. However, helical ribbon shapes induced by elastic modulus anisotropy have not been systematically examined even though most natural and engineered structures are made of composite materials with anisotropic mechanical properties.

We have an open PhD position to study the mechano-chemical organisation of cells from a physical and mathematical point of view. Individually or collectively, cells move due to mechanical and chemical gradients and doing so they self-organise in very specific forms. Understanding the physical laws under mechano-chemical gradients can head to establish new protocols in the control of cell structures. The final goal of the project is to manipulate cells so that the morphology of cell structures can be predicted, e.g. in biological-based prosthesis.

Our partner Weizmann Institute Science in Israel is currently trying to fill a PhD position for the FiBreMoD project. The title of the PhD project is "Microscale matrix and interfacial properties of fibre-reinforced composites", and will be supervised by Prof. Daniel Wagner. If you are an enthusiastic and motivated candidate with a background in Materials Science, Composites, Mechanics, or Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, then you should consider applying.

Thu, 2016-03-03 17:25 - L. Roy Xu

The next part of my series on scientific viz on the browser is now available: See http://www.parresianz.com/javascript/typescript/threejs/vue/vtk-threejs-camera/

-- Biswajit

Architected Materials

Introduction  

The ORS Annual Meeting is the premier international meeting in the field of orthopaedics and musculoskeletal research, and is a major forum for engineers, orthopaedic surgeons, clinicians and biologists to discuss the most innovative and cutting-edge research in this area. Many advancements being realized today for the treatment of orthopaedic patients was at one time presented at the ORS Annual Meeting as an innovative idea.

Simpleware at ORS 2017

At the conference you can learn about our software’s strengths for Orthopaedics and Biomechanics Research:

The Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD) is sponsoring the 2017 Symposium on Phononic Crystals and Metamaterials.  This symposium, which will be in its 13^th year, will feature presentations covering all aspects of phononic crystals and acoustic/elastic/phononic metamaterials.

Deadline for Abstract Submission: March 6, 2017

Conference Website: https://www.asme.org/events/imece

 Call for Abstracts attached.

This is a 9 months post-doc position on modelling crack problems at Portsmouth University (UK). 

The project will focus on using Abaqus to model the full field near-tip strains. Corresponding experimental data has been collected for model validation using Digital Image Correlation. Deadline for application: 12th March 2017. International applicants welcome. More details and instructions to apply on: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXH079/senior-research-associate-in-fracture-…