Dear all,
We have just published a research paper presenting, for the first time ever, a method for direct microscale mechanical testing of cement paste. We find this method very useful, and believe that it can provide a good basis for multi-scale modelling of cement and concrete materials. Full text is availavle at: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/11/907 (open access)
Abstract:
The elastic Ericksen's problem consists of finding deformations in isotropic hyperelastic solids that can be maintained for arbitrary strain-energy density functions. In the compressible case, Ericksen showed that only homogeneous deformations are possible. Here, we solve the anelastic version of the same problem, that is we determine both the deformations and the eigenstrains such that a solution to the anelastic problem exists for arbitrary strain-energy density functions. Anelasticity is described by finite eigenstrains.
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Applied Mechanics Department (MNNIT Allahabad, U.P., India) is organizing 3rd Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM2017) during July 5-7, 2017.
华中科技大学力学系诚聘博士后（动力学与控制、固体力学、流体力学等方向），待遇丰厚，详情请查阅：http://postdoctor.hust.edu.cn/news.asp?id=157
The Université catholique de Louvain invites applications for a full-time professor position in Biomechanical Engineering
We seek talented individuals who will develop and drive a research program at the forefront of the biomechanical engineering discipline on topics involving the experimentation, characterization, modelling and/or simulation of
The Université catholique de Louvain invites applications for a full-time professor position in Geotechnical Engineering
We seek talented individuals who will develop and drive a research program at the forefront of the field of geotechnics and/or soil mechanics, involving, for instance:
Because of the increasing need of energy, the plants installed by electricity supply utilities throughout the world are becoming larger and more highly stressed. Thus, the risk of turbogenerator shaft cracking is increasing also. The development and propagation of a crack represents the most common and trivial beginning of integrity losses in engineering structures.
Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for our mini-symposium (MS61) on Computational Geomechanics in the upcoming EMI conference (June 4-7, 2017) at San Diego. The scope of the mini-symposium is listed below:
Imitating origami principles in active or programmable materials opens the door for development
of origami-inspired self-folding structures for not only aesthetic but also functional purposes. A
variety of programmable materials enabled self-folding structures have been demonstrated across
various fields and scales. These folding structures have finite thickness and the mechanical
properties of the active materials dictate the folding process. Yet formalizing the use of origami
rules for use in computer modeling has been challenging, owing to the zero-thickness theory and
