Conference description: Tailoring the mechanical performance and reliability of materials requires to understand the interplay of deformation mechanisms and microstructure across all length scales. The recent advances in small-scale mechanical testing...
Read moreThe Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPIE), located in Düsseldorf, Germany, is dedicated to basic research on advanced materials. The Department Structure and Nanomechanics of Materials (Prof. G. Dehm) is searching for an experienced researcher...
Read moreThe MNO group of IM2NP at Aix-Marseille Université offers a PhD thesis focusing on the mechanical and piezoelectric properties of semiconductor (GaN, ZnO) nanowires. Details below. Contact: Dr. Michaël Texier (michael.texier@univ-amu.fr) Dr. Thomas...
Read moreSubject: "Multi-scale modeling of UO2 plasticity: on the role of irradiation defects" Description: The main goal of the Ph.D thesis is to develop a constitutive model based on dislocation interactions with irradiation defects. This model is needed to...
Read moreSubject’s title: "Nano-mechanical and piezoelectric studies on semiconductor nanowires" Description: The MNO group of IM2NP at Aix-Marseille Université offers a PhD thesis focusing on the mechanical and piezoelectric properties of semiconductor (GaN,...
Read moreIn the ‘Micro- and Nanomechanics’ group of Assoz.Prof. Dr. Daniel Kiener the ERC Consolidator Grant TOUGHIT focusses on the development of superior strong and tough composite materials by tailoring microstructure and interface properties. In this regard,...
Read moreThe department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is looking for postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student: Postdoctoral: "Environmentally assisted cracking of advancd high strength alloys (SO IV-21/18)" , Application deadline is 7 March 2018. Please...
Read moreFrom September 26th to 28th 2018, Europe´s Material Scientists and Engineers will meet at the Materials Science and Engineering Congress (MSE) at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. And a special focus on the following symposia: C05 - Small...
Read moreThesis: Grain-Boundary based deformation mechanisms in ultra-fine grain metals. This thesis, essentially experimental, consists in deforming several small-grain fcc metals (Cu, Ni, Al) in situ in a dedicated and unique in the world AFM / STM (PPrime Institute,...
Read moreThesis: In situ TEM study of elementary plasticity mechanisms. Project: MuDiLingo, a EU-ERC project awarded to S. Sandfeld, (U. Freiberg, Germany) is approaching the plasticity problems in a totally new way, digging experimental data from dynamic experiments...
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