A new postdoctoral fellow position will start on 1 January 2017 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The position is in the area of computational modeling of reinforced concrete structures under impact loading. The potential candidate should have strong background in nonlinear solid mechanics, finite elements method, and discrete elements method. A prior knowledge in programming using fortran and python is required.

In 1979 Qian Weichang studied the slender toroidal shell systematically and derived a called Qian’s equation, then obtained a series solution with the expression of continued fractions. But Qian did not mention if the series solution can be converted to a well-known special functions. In this paper, a linear transformation has been introduced, which will transfer the equation into a Mathieu equation, whose solution can be expressed in terms of Mathieu functions. This study has revealed a intrinsic relationship between the Qian’s solution and the Mathieu solutions.

The paper gives a systematical introduction on dimensional analysis (DA), and proposes a six-steps on how to use the dimensional analysis, the universality of the DA will be shown by some typical examples, such as, point blast, pipe flow and a small sphere moving through a viscous fluid.

published: Physics and Engineering, Vol 26, No.6, pp.11-20, 2016. Invited article, in Chinese)

Invitation to attend our Mechanics Symposium

A Conference of the ASCE / Engineering Mechanics Institute

COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS (CAM)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

19-22 March 2017

Please see the website:

The Composite Materials Group is currently looking for a postdoc, with experience in production and characterisation of composites. It's a £2-year position, starting on the 1st of February 2017. The topic is hybridisation of self-reinforced composites with high performance fibres. You can find all the details on http://tinyurl.com/hythec .

Update: this position is now closed!

Acta Mechanica Sinica (Volume 32, Issue 6, 2016 ) is online now !

Dear everyone!

The sixth issue in 2016 (Volume 32, Issue 6) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is online now.

Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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Dear colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for our mini-symposium (MS13) on Mechanics of Bioinspired Materials and Structures in the upcoming EMI conference (June 4-7, 2017) at San Diego. The scope of the mini-symposium is listed below: 

Kindly view the PDF announcement for more details. The research will be conducted under the supervision of Professor Maurizio Porfiri, director of the DSL. The Dynamical Systems Laboratory (DSL) is seeking to recruit outstanding Ph.D. students in a number of funded research projects.

We are looking for PhD candidates (Research Assistships) to conduct research in the area of Mechanics of Soft Matter and Living Cells. Motivated individuals interested in either experiments or computational analysis are encouraged to apply by sending emails to Prof. Sulin Zhang at (suz10 [at] psu.edu (suz10[at]psu[dot]edu)). 

Short course at Centre International de Sciences Mechanique (CISM), Udine.

May 22-26, 2017

Lecturers:  S Forest, I Groma, D McDowell, S Mesarovic, J-N Roux, H Zbib

The flyer is attached.  Register at:   http://www.cism.it/courses/C1703/ 

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