USACM Student Chapter Monthly Seminar.
Saturday, April 26, at 2PM - 3PM (Eastern time - New York).
Speaker: Saikat Dan, Johns Hopkins University
Title: A micromechanical model of fracture in piezoelectric composites using a cohesive-zone phase field approach
Authors: Abhishek Arora, Benjamin M. Ward, Caglar Oskay
A PhD opening is available in my group, focusing on the development and testing of machine learning potentials for multi-component systems, with focus on predicting dislocation plasticity and grain boundary mechanics in green steels. Motivated candidates with a strong mechanics background are warmly encouraged to apply.
More info about the post and how to apply at:
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=003…
Prof. Oreste Bursi, Full Professor at the University of Trento (Italy) and Dr. Davide Noè Gorini, Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to join their research group on Hazard protection of Civil Engineering Structures.
Biological tissues with core–shell structures usually exhibit non-uniform curvatures such as toroidal geometry presenting interesting features containing positive, zero, and negative Gaussian curvatures within one system, which give rise to intriguing instability patterns distinct from those observed on uniformly curved surfaces. Such varying curvatures would dramatically affect the growing morphogenesis.
Length of regular research papers should be less than 4000 words; total number of figures is limited to 6.
Submissions not in compliance with the limits will be automatically “rejected without review”.
If the editors feel the submission has scientific merits but over the page/figure limits, they can suggest that the authors reformat the article (reduce or combine figures, reduce length) and resubmit. In that case, the authors should resubmit to the same editor since the submission may be flagged for “duplicate submission”.
We are hiring PhD students!
Daedalus, our research group at Georgia Institute of Technology, has an opening for two PhD students with interest in experimental solid mechanics and intrumentation development to work towards developing high throughput fracture testing methods as well as mechanics of green structures. Starting date: Fall 2025 or Spring 2026.
Keywords: mechanics, physics, materials engineering, instrument development
I have an opening PhD Position at my Chair of Computational Mechanics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany).
The candidate should work on a research project including physics-based modeling of wafer-to-wafer bonding.
The application is open until 24th of April.
Please follow the link for the application: Apply here
``UNIFIED MICROMECHANICS THEORY of Composites” by Buryachenko has been created (see https:// arxiv.org/abs/2503.14529, 89pp, 514refs) for analyses of composites of either random (statistically homogeneous or inhomogeneous), periodic, or deterministic (neither random nor periodic) structures with either local, weakly nonlocal (strain gradient and stress gradient), strongly nonlocal (strain-type and displacement-type, peridynamics) or multiphysics phase properties and any unpredefined surrogate (effective) nonlocal operators.
PhD Position in Mechatronics Design of Underwater Vehicles
