A Post-Doc position is open at Politecnico di Torino. The research activity will focus on the mechanical behavior of reservoir sands. A good background competences on constitutive modelling are expected. More details in pdf.
The position is for 3 years and is aimed at finishing PhDs and new postdocs. See http://www.iccr.org.uk/
Anyone interested is very welcome to contact Dr. Helen Lewis (helen.lewis@pet.hw.ac.uk, phone: +44 131 451 3691) for informal discussions.
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The invited session From Discrete Particles to Continuum Models of Granular Mechanics, to be held at the Particles 2015 conference, Sept 28-30 in Barcelona, Spain. The session is divided into the three parts below, with corresponding session codes listed:
Part I. Elasticity and Wave Propagation (session code is “22”)
Part II. Quasi-static Elastoplastic Flows (session code is “23”)
Part III. Rapid Granular Flows (session code is “24”)
The deadline for abstract submission is February 2, 2015.
The mini-symposium titled “Unsaturated poromechanics: experimental, theoretical and numerical studies” (MS 1.14) will be held in InterPore 2015 conference (May 18 – 21, 2015, Padova, Italy).
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: Wed, 14 January, 2015 (this deadline is approaching, please check the website for possible extension of the deadline, if any).
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Candidates are sought for an upcoming PhD position (start: Sep 2015) in the field of experimental and numerical investigation of multiscale transport behaviour of concrete subjected to combined calcium leaching and carbonation. Continue reading
A Post-doctoral opportunity and a PhD position are available at Division „Buildings & Structures“ at Federal Institute for Materials Research in Berlin, Germany. Both projects are concerned with the long-term prediction of plastic strains of cyclically loaded pile and bucket foundations for Offshore Wind Energy Converters.
Applications are invited for a 24 months Post Doc contract or for a 3 year contract to work on a PhD thesis. More details in the pdf-files (1 , 2).
A PhD position in Geomechanics is available at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland (4 years funding as part of the UK government NERC CDT funding scheme). The project entitled Bots in Rocks: Intelligent Rock Deformation for Fault Rock Petrophysical Properties is about using sensors to detect actual deformation states in lab deformed rock samples.
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Colorado School of Mines invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in geotechnical and/or civil-construction materials engineering related to underground construction and tunneling. Exceptional candidates may be considered at the Associate Professor level.
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A PhD position is available at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France) in collaboration with ANDRA, the French national radioactive waste management agency. Further details about the post and eligibility requirements are given in the attached pdf.
There is a multiple-position tenure-track faculty search in Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, see http://ceae.colorado.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-search/ . For those candidates interested in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics, and/or Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics, please consider applying.