Phd Position: Theoretical and Numerical Modeling of - Fribourg, Schweiz - ETH Zürich

ETH Zürich

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Fribourg, Schweiz

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Lena Schneider

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Beschreibung

PhD position:
Theoretical and numerical modeling of dynamic fracture of nonlinear materials:

100%, Zurich, fixed-term:

The Chair of Computational Mechanics of Building Materials in the Institute for Building Materials at ETH Zurich has an opening for a PhD student in modeling fracture of nonlinear elastic materials.

Project background:

The Chair of Computational Mechanics of Building Materials (CMBM) conducts research at the interface between mechanics, materials and scientific computing.

Our research activities are focused on the mechanics of interfaces, network-based materials, and multi-physical failure phenomena. CMBM is a highly interdisciplinary and international research team that is working on a very wide range of projects. The topics of current research projects at CMBM include uncovering the mechanisms of earthquake nucleation and arrest, building structures with topologically interlocked materials, revealing the processes governing the structural build-up of cement in additive manufacturing, determining the nano
- and micro-scale processes that control cracking of concrete due to corrosion, uncovering the fundamental laws governing granular materials, and revealing the damage mechanisms in elastomers that lead to fracture. In all of these projects, our central objectives are to understand the mechanics of the involved processes and to develop predictive tools by building theoretical and numerical models based on experimental observations.

Job description:

This PhD position will focus on the fracture properties of materials with non-trivial mechanical properties. The objective is to develop theoretical and numerical models for NLEFM.

This amounts in investigating how a nonlinear elastic response modifies features associated with the behavior of elastic fields in the vicinity of the propagating crack front and how they affect its dynamics.

Different approaches for incorporating the material properties will be explored and evaluated.

The theoretical and numerical results will then be compared to experimental data collected by collaborators and used to study the fundamental mechanisms governing the failure of nonlinear elastic materials.

Ultimately, the methodology will be generalised to be applied to materials with any unconventional mechanical elastic response.

Your profile:

You hold an MSc degree in physics, mechanics or a related discipline and have a background in solid mechanics, theoretical or applied physics, applied mathematics, computational science, material science or a related field.

Additionally, you have prior programming experience and are fluent in English (oral and written). You show enthusiasm for conducting original research in an interdisciplinary and international team, and you strive for scientific excellence.

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Curious? So are we
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The position is available with flexible start date possibly as soon as possible.

- an academic transcript/list of courses completed
- a brief statement describing your project idea relevant to the job description, making connection to your experience in this area and the related work from the literature
- the names and contact details of two references