5th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues (ICMoBT 2013) - Sitges, Spain 8-12 December 2013. To submit your papers, go to www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com

Topics include:
-Hard tissues and materials (e.g. bone, teeth, mineralized biomaterials such as armors)
-Soft tissues and materials (e.g. cartilage, tendon, silk, elastin, organs)
-Natural, biologically inspired and biomimetic materials (including biomimicking materials)
-Metals and ceramics as biomaterials
-Mechanobiology (development, physiology and disease)
-Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering

There are multiple faculty positions effective immediately in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Miami. More information about the positions and the application instruction may be found here.

Our new paper entitled "Anomalous
plasticity in the cyclic torsion of micron scale metallic wires" has been
accepted by PRL

(see:
http://prl.aps.org/accepted/3f070Y37M7a1003ff5a406b3682fb86122bc26bd4)

Post-doctoral Associate in brain biomechanics is available at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

A 3-year PhD scholarship is available to work on simulation methods to treat colloidal
particles that are flowing near, or are transported within fluid interfaces (L.
Botto et al., Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 9957-9971); the focus is on fluid
mechanical aspects coupled with physical-chemistry. For details: webspace.qmul.ac.uk/lbotto

The book “Corrosion and Materials in the Oil and Gas Industries”, edited by Reza Javaherdashti, Chikezie Nwaoha and Henry Tan, has been published by CRC Press/Taylor and Francis LLC, USA.

A fully funded PhD scholarship exists in the area of solid mechanics at
the Arts et Métiers ParisTech, CER Angers, France. 
http://www.ensam.fr/en/.

The successful applicant will have a  Masters' degree  in
solid mechanics, physics or applied Mathematics . He/she 
is expected to have very good numerical
skills.

Liangliang Zhu and Xi Chen, Acta Biomaterialia (2013)       

From a mechanical instability perspective, a double-eyelid is a double-folded thin film structure on a curved substrate, caused by compression as the film “slides” on the substrate. The underlying mechanics issues, in particular the requirements for forming a double-folded structure, are studied using a modeling/simulation framework. A minimalist model is employed to explore the wrinkle-to-fold transition. Refined and enriched models are further developed based on anatomical structures, which demonstrate three critical factors for the formation of double-layer folding of the eyelid. First, a crease line in the eyelid is essential where the local bending rigidity is relatively weak. Second, the skin above the crease line should be thin and wide enough. Third, the skin below the crease line should be possessed with relatively large effective stiffness so it can be lifted as a whole when eyes open. When the eye is opened beyond about 40% of its initial wrinkle wavelength, the double-folded structure emerges. Various types of eyelid morphologies are discussed based on the mechanistic model. The study provides useful insights for surgery, cosmetics, morphogenesis, as well as microfabrication.

Simulation of the double (up) and single (down) eyelid.

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I have written a National Academy of Sciences biographical memoir of Zay Jeffries, one of the great American metallurgists of the 20th century.  I am posting the link to the NAS website here with the thought that some readers of iMechanica might be interested in the piece.  Some will be interested to learn that Jeffries came very close to discovering dislocations some 18 years before the great papers of Taylor, Orowan and Polyanyi in 1934.

http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/j...

W.D. Nix 

Rod Clifton , Rush C. Hawkins University Professor Emeritus and Professor (Research) at the School of Engineering at Brown University, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Sigma Xi Monie A. Ferst Award .

A research position for a Postdoctoral Research Associate is now available at the working group of Continua Mechanics at the TU Darmstadt, Germany, led by Professor Dr.-Ing. Charalampos Tsakmakis.

The position is fulltime fixed-term for two years.

The main task is the development of a thermodynamical consistent constitutive model for micropolar and micromorphic
plasticity and its numerical implementation into a finite element environment. Preliminary work has been done, so that a
satisfactory closure is possible within the given scope of two years.
Applicants should match the following requirements:

Numerical
Simulation of Particle Stress and Fracture using FEMDEM: Application to Process
Catalysts

Johnson
Matthey CASE/EPSRC PhD Studentship Award- Duration 36 months

Title: Exploration of novel multiaxial high strain rate tests of materials based on full-field strain measurements and inverse identification

Sponsor: EOARD http://www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=16662/

Start of PhD: end of September 2013

A fully funded PhD scholarship exists in the area of mechanics of materials.  The successful applicant will have a 1st class degree (and ideally a Masters degree) in Engineering solid mechanics or in Engineering materials.  The precise topic of the PhD can be fixed after the scholarship has been awarded.

Further details may be obtained from Ms H A Gardner.  To apply complete form CHRIS/6 (coversheet for C.V.s) available at http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/forms/ and send with your C.V. and covering letter to Ms H A Gardner, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, (Tel +44 1223 748241, Fax +44 1223 339263, email has22@cam.ac.uk.

The Biosystems and Biomaterials Group at NIST has two postdoctoral positions available for recent PhD graduate to work on (1) simulation of photon transport (light migration) in polymeric composites (2) modeling of cell-material adhesive interactions. These interdisciplinary research programs require the prospective applicants to have a strong background in computational methods (finite element or MD).