Instabilities in Magnetoactive Materials
Stability of anisotropic magnetorheological elastomers in finite deformations: A micromechanical approach
Stephan Rudykh and Katia Bertoldi
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 61 (2013) 949–967
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Openings for MSc/PhD students at University of Alberta
Open MSc/PhD positions are available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Alberta. The research projects will involve computational and experimental study of soft material mechanics, with an emphasis on fracture. Students with background in solid mechanics or materials science are encouraged to apply. Interested candidates please send resume to Dr. Rong Long (rlong2 [at] ualberta.ca).
Position for laboratory manager at Vienna University of Technology
At the Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics (ILSB) of Vienna University of Technology,
vienna, Austria there is an open position for the Lab-Manager of the Laboratory for Nano- and Micromechanics of
Biological and Biomimetic Materials. Click here for details.
A Beaded-String Silicon Anode
ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (3), pp 2717–2724, DOI: 10.1021/nn4001512 (2013). Download PDF .
PhD studentship "Computational Mechanics of Fracture on Advanced Composite Aerospace Structure"
For more information click on
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/mecheng/phd/projects/composite-aerospace-str…
Post-Doctoral Position, Brest, France: Analysis of the effects of transfer and storage phases on the behavior of bonded ..
Post doctoral position at Brest, France.
Title: Analysis of the effects of transfer and storage phases
on the behavior of bonded joints for SYLDA5 structures
Minisymposium on Electronic-Structure Methods at USNCCM12
Dear Colleagues:
We would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a minisymposium that we are organizing on Emerging Methods for Large-Scale Quantum-Mechanical Materials Calculations at the 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, to be held July 22-25, 2013 in Raleigh, NC. This minisymposium aims to bring together leading researchers in this emerging area to discuss and exchange ideas on new methods developments for density-functional calculations, mathematical analysis, and applications of ab initio methods in electronic-structure calculations.
Symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Low-dimensional Metallic Nanostructures - MS&T'13 - New deadline on March 31
We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract for the international symposium on Structure-Property Relationships in Low-dimensional Metallic Nanostructures at the MS&T'13 conference in Montreal, Quebec Canada on October 27-31, 2013.
NOTE: The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to March 31 at http://www.matscitech.org/
Freely jointed chain
A single strand of polymer is a chain of a large number of monomers. The monomers are joined by covalent bonds, and two bonded monomers may rotate relative to each other. At a finite temperature, the polymer rapidly changes from one configuration to another. When the two ends of the polymer are pulled by a force, the distance between the two ends changes. The polymer is known as an entropic spring.