I was awarded my PhD in Structures and Materials Mechanics from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France). My thesis focused on the nonlinear  dynamics of cracked turbines rotors (please see attached abstract) and was done at the Mechanical Solids Laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique. The Thesis (in french) could be downloaded at http://pastel.paristech.org/1793/.

The full oral program for the 7th International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials is now available at http://www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com/index.htm. Join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting held in Hyannis, MA, USA on beautiful Cape Cod, September 14-19, 2008.  

We have an immediate opening in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics for a postdoctoral research associate in multiscale modeling and computational mechanics. The focus of this position is on the modeling, simulation, and analysis of the nonlinear evolution of coupled macro/microstructure in failure processes, with an emphasis toward structural health monitoring. Coupled-field models using continuum damage variables will be used to study the fundamental spatiotemporal features of damage evolution, particularly regarding the nature and origin of unpredictability in damage processes. The candidate must have a solid general background in theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and be familiar with nonlinear finite element analysis

In a recent Progress Article in Nature Materials, David Taylor, Jan G Hazenberg, and T Clive Lee write about the damage that human bones sustain as a result of cyclic stresses under which they operate and the repair mechanisms that operate.