SERC launched the A*STAR Investigatorships in 2007.
This prestigious award for top international young research talent,
tenable at our research institutes, aims to nurture young talent and
build R&D capabilities in Singapore. This year, the award is open
for applications in the following areas:



- Cognitive Systems, including Robotics

- Metamaterials and Plasmonics

- Bioenergy and Energy Storage Technologies

- Medical Technologies for Diagnostics



As

The Department of Structural Engineering announces 3 positions as
research fellows. The department has at present 21 professors, 7
adjunct professors, 3 in other academic positions, 3 adjunct associate
professors, and 50 research fellows.

The employment period is 4 years, and the positions are within these 4 core areas at the department:

Three PhD positions are available at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, to work on

Dear Colleagues:The inaugural issue of International Journal of Applied Mechanics (IJAM) is now available on IJAM's website and all papers can be downloaded freely. IJAM website: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijam/ijam.shtml Regards

Hi everybody! I'm glad to join iMechanica, just hope to contribute something of interest...and share our penchant for this fascinating subject with all of you

Dear all, I post a study dealing with tack of prepreg materials. This kind of composite materials is increasingly used in the design of structural parts, particularly in the aerospace industry.Tack is one of the major properties that governs the ability of prepreg to be laid up. To investigate this property, we have developed a probe tack test to evaluate the effect of the temperature, the contact time, the contact force and the debonding rate on it.

I always have a question about the convergence problem: when a structure reaches its maximum load-bearing ability, the solution will end if the newton method is used in the finite element analysis. Then which form the stiffness stiffness in the finite element analysis takes on?  Singular or ill-conditioning?  How to explain the appearance of maximum load by variable stiffness matrix?