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Associate Professor Position in High Performance Computational Methods at Northwestern

Submitted by cbrinson on Wed, 08/21/2013 - 21:54

Applicants are invited to apply for a tenure track faculty position in Mechanical Engineering at the Associate Professor level in computational science and engineering at Northwestern University. Higher level appointments will be considered under special qualifications. Candidates are expected to demonstrate strong skills in leadership and a commitment to collaboration and teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programs of the McCormick School of Engineering.

URGENT: phd position in the group of Prof Bigoni (Trento, Italy) with possible sharing with us in PoliBA

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 15:40

research

phd offer

I received this letter from Prof Davide Bigoni

Marie Curie PhD position at University of Trento (Italy): deadline September 15

It is a top opportunity in Italy, the leading group in Italy in elasticity, plasticity and nonlinear elasticity. A very active university and town.

I expect many applications.

prof. MC

PhD STUDENTSHIPS FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION

Submitted by fhuera on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 09:18

job

offshore

Fluid Structure Interaction

WIND

MARINE

WIND TURBINES

The laboratory for fluid structure interaction (LIFE) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain is looking for a PhD cadidate. The student will work in a project involving fluid-structure interaction in offshore engineering with applications to wind energy and the dynamics of offshore structures.

More information can be seen in the attached PDF or in http://www.etseq.urv.es/life/.

Calculation of coefficient of thermal expansion of graphene using MD simulations with various thermostats

Submitted by Nuwan Dewapriya on Fri, 08/16/2013 - 16:31

Bulge test at nano-scale: The surface effects

Submitted by tongqing.lu on Fri, 08/16/2013 - 14:49

Bulge test is an effective technique to measure the mechanical properties of thin films. As the membrane size decreases to nano-scale, the surface effect plays a significant role in determining the mechanical behavior of the membrane, and the techniques commonly used to measure the bulk materials properties are not applicable. We explore the surface effect on the nano-scale bulge test using combined continuum theories and atomistic simulations. We formulate the load-deflection relation by incorporating the surface effect and analyze its size-dependent behavior. The present theoretical model is in quantitative agreement with the molecular dynamics simulations.

Cosmic turbulences result in star and black hole formation

Submitted by Oleg Kirillov on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 21:44

research

stability

Challenge of Biomechanics

Submitted by Konstantin Volokh on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 12:25

opinion

biomechanics

The application of mechanics to biology
– biomechanics – bears great challenges due to the intricacy of living things.
Their dynamism, along with the complexity of their mechanical response (which
in itself involves complex chemical, electrical, and thermal phenomena) makes
it very difficult to correlate empirical data with theoretical models. This
difficulty elevates the importance of useful biomechanical theories compared to
other fields of engineering. Despite inherent imperfections of all theories, a

Residual Stress Summit 2013 - discounted registration until September 6

Submitted by Mike Prime on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 17:17

conference

The 2013 Residual Stress Summit will take place October 8 - 10,
2013 at the Hilton Garden Inn Idaho Falls, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA. You can get more information at http://www.rssummit.org

Conisdering recommending this event to your industrial colleagues.