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Job opportunity: Simpleware Applications Engineer, Exeter, UK

Submitted by Simpleware on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 11:29

Simpleware software is currently looking for a motivated applicant to join the technical support team. You should be passionate about working with image processing and 3D modelling software, and with providing technical knowledge and sales support. You will also be responsible for generating papers and promotional material which will require you to work very closely with customers and partners.

We offer a competitive salary for this position.

The closing date for this job posting is the 10th of September, 2018

Ageing of a polymeric engine mount investigated using digital image correlation

Submitted by Payam Soltani on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 10:19

research

elastomer ageing

hydraulic engine mount

digital image correlation

Ageing of a polymeric engine mount investigated using digital image correlation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327381397_Ageing_of_a_polymeri…;

PhD and Postdoc Open Positions in Polymer Modeling at University of Connecticut

Submitted by Ying Li on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 03:59

job

PhD Open Positions

PhD positions with financial support in the form of research assistant/teaching assistant are available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut (UConn).

Faculty positions & job hunting

Submitted by christos_athanasiou on Tue, 09/04/2018 - 18:48

job

As a platform dedicated to the optimization of academic job searching is still missing in our community we could get inspired by collegues from the academic field of operations:

http://www.operationsacademia.org

Concurrent atomistic-continuum simulations of uniaxial compression of gold nano/submicropillars

Submitted by Shuozhi Xu on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 13:07

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500839.2018.1515506

Abstract

Active Topographic Surface Renewal

Submitted by Pocivavsek on Mon, 09/03/2018 - 00:41

Check out our new work on topography driven surface renewal published in Nature Physics:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0193-x

We are building a new dynamic group at University of Chicago bringing together physicists, surgeons, and engineers to tackle some of the most

challenging problems in tissue/material interfaces with the goal of improving on many current medical devices.

Error using Neo-hookean in abaqus

Submitted by Jaswanth_kumar on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 06:33

software

Hi everyone,

I am trying to solve a problem of twisting a hyperelastic material(compressible neo-hookean) in abaqus.

The problem has been taken from 10.12.5 TWISTING COLUMN in the textbook NONLINEAR SOLID MECHANICS FOR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS: STATICS (Javier Bonet,Antonio J. Gil,Richard D.Wood).

Lamda and mu are given as 100 each, so I have calculated the Neo-hookean coefficients for abaqus which came out to be C10=50 and D1=0.012

I am using abaqus static-general with time steps of

*Step, name=Step-1, nlgeom=YES, inc=10000

Faculty position at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Submitted by M D Thouless on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 02:48

job

A faculty position in experimental mechanics / materials is available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The closing date is December 1, 2018. Please see the attached advertisement for details.

Anomalous bulging behaviors of a dielectric elastomer balloon under internal pressure and electric actuation

Submitted by tongqing.lu on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 01:50

When a clamped membrane of elastomer is subject to a lateral pressure, it bulges into a hemispherical balloon. However, for a clamped membrane of dielectric elastomer (DE) under a lateral pressure as well as a voltage through the thickness, it may bulge into a regular hemispherical balloon or an irregular shape. This work focuses on the anomalous bulging behaviors (i.e. the irregular bulging shape) of a DE balloon under electromechanical coupling loading.