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PhD positions are available at the University of Minnesota in the group of Prof. Stefano Gonella. The positions are in the general area of mechanics and physics of solids and structures, with emphasis on mechanical metamaterials. Topics of current interest are:

1) Topological metamaterials;

2) Nonlinear waves in metamaterials and architected solids;

Agency

Texas A&M Engineering

Department

Materials Science and Engineering

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

College Station, Texas

Dear Colleagues, In the context of the EU Marie Curie ITN Project FULLCOMP, a workshop "Novel Developments in Failure Analysis of Composite Materials and Structures" for PhD students and young researchers will take place on 30-31 July 2018 at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. This workshop presents recent developments in various aspects of failure analysis of composite structures, ranging from material modelling to structural modelling and from testing and identification aspects to numerical analysis.

The Department of Industrial Engineering, The University of Trento (Italy) opened a PhD position on multifunctional electro-mechanical transducers based on dielectric liquids and electro-active polymers (EAPs), namely liquid-based EAPs (LEAPs).

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ThisVIDEOgives a very intuitive explanation of stress concentration with an analogy and an experimental demonstration.

Dear colleagues,

on behalf of the organizers, I would like to bring to your attention thetraining course for Ph.D. students, engineers, and researchersinterested in acquiring the working knowledge ofOOFEM, an open-source object-oriented finite element package that has been developed at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague for more than twenty years.

Dear colleagues,

CEMEF, a research Center of Mines Paristech, is offering a Post Master degree in Digital Materials and Advanced Processes Modeling.

这个培训项目- delivered in English - is open to students holding a master degree in mechanics and/or in computational engineering.

Thisvideoexplains the concept of principal stresses using an experiment

A one-week CISM Advanced School on "Mechanics of strain gradient materials", coordinated by Albrecht Bertram and Samuel Forest, will take place in Udine, Italy, next May 14th-18th.

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our pleasure to announce the coming seventh iteration of the Computational Materials Science Summer School at Texas A&M University,CMS3. The school will take place in College Station, TX fromJuly 22 – Aug. 3, 2018.

Thisvideocontainsan experimental demonstration of a simple bending and torsion and further speculate the nature of stresses induced by the respective loading scenarios

Summer School on "Biomechanics, from Protein to Tissue to Organ: Modeling and Computation" in Graz, Austria

Thisvideogives a basic introduction to von mises stress, which is widely used in the structural analysis & design.

The 6th edition of the intensive course on Digital Image Correlation (DIC) will take place on 11-15 Jne 2018 à Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. The course is composed of a number of lectures, data processing sessions and labs. The number of participants is limited to 20 for maximal interaction with the teaching team.更多的information here.

Thisvideogives a basic overview of the most fundamental hardening models of plasticity, which are the isotropic and kinematic hardening

Hope this helps!

- Prithivi

In introducing the very concept of the stress tensor to the beginning student, text-books always present only indirect relations involving the concept. Thus, you have the relations like "traction = (stress-transposed)(unit normal)" (i.e. Cauchy's formula, for uniform stress), or the relations for the coordinate transformations of the stress tensor, or the divergence theorem (for non-uniform stress). These are immediately followed or interspersed with alternative notations, and the rules for using them.

But what you never ever get to see, in text-books or references, is this: a *direct* definition of the stress tensor, i.e. an equation in which there is only the stress tensor on the left hand-side, and some expression involving some *other* quantities on right hand-side. Why? What possibly could be the conceptual and pedagogical advantages of giving a direct definition of this kind, and its physical meaning? I would like to ponder on these matters here, giving my answers to these and similar questions in the process.

Level: Ph.D,start from Fall 2018
When:Apply Nowby sending CV toyaning.li@unh.edu
Fellowship:Deadline 02/25/2018. (again directly sending CV toyaning.li@unh.edu)https://ceps.unh.edu/graduate-fellowships
Project: NSF/CAREER award on Chiral Auxetic Composites