Dear colleagues,

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University is seeking candidates for a postdoctoral/research associate position, which is available immediately. Applicants should have a recent Ph.D. degree with a strong record of journal publications. Research areas in one of the following areas are considered.

1) Solid mechanics: multi-scale/ multi-physics modeling of advanced materials, computational mechanics for materials, structures and energy systems in extreme environments. Knowledge of molecular dynamics modeling of polymer materials is a plus.

I am looking to recruit a new PhD student in the area of computational modeling of soft active materials.  The position will begin as early as January 2014, or alternatively in September 2014.  Requirements for this position including the ability to program in C++, knowledge of nonlinear finite element methods and continuum mechanics, and a good background in solid mechanics.  If interested, please contact me at parkhs(at)bu.edu, with a copy of a CV and a description of your previous research experience.

5th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues (ICMoBT 2013) - Sitges, Spain 8-12 December 2013

Register before 27th September and take advantage of our Early Bird offer!http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-register.html

Journal of Applied Mechanics just published the 2011 Drucker Medal Paper: Localized Compaction in Porous Sandstones, authored by Profesor John Rudnicki from Northwestern University.  

http://appliedmechanics.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=1724444

Professor John Rudnicki received the ASME Drucker Medal in 2011. 

Caltech has made the Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol I, freely accessible online.  The quality of the HTML file is exceptionally high.  Take a look at the preface to learn how this electronic version was produced.

Please see attached file for a description of the position opening.

We introduce a geometric framework to calculate the residual stress fields and deformations of nonlinear solids with inclusions and eigenstrains. Inclusions are regions in a body with different reference configurations from the body itself and can be described by distributed eigenstrains. Geometrically, the eigenstrains define a Riemannian 3-manifold in which the body is stress-free by construction. The problem of residual stress calculation is then reduced to finding a mapping from the Riemannian material manifold to the ambient Euclidean space.