a recent pre-print concerning the elasticity of a knotted rod (submitted to Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2881

Authors:  N. Clauvelin, B. Audoly, S. Neukirch

Abstract:

Invitation to Concrete 09

The Concrete Institute of Australia has pleasure in inviting you to the 24th Biennial Conference in Sydney where you can join fellow concrete professionals and users in exploring the opportunities to add value to the services and products we provide in the changing climates in which we work.

PhD STUDENTSHIPS: Fluid structure interactions in marine engineering and IN bioinspired design 

Name            Olgierd Zienkiewicz

Nationality     British

Birth date      18 May 1921

Birth place     Caterham, UK

Date of death   2 January 2009

Place of death  Swansea, UK

PhD positions are available starting Fall 2009.

Michigan State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering

If you have strong interest in Solid Mechanics and Nature, write to me after applying to MSU Graduate School for admission.

Desirable qualities: Innovative, strongly motivated and interested in understanding how nature works and applying the same for mechanics based problems

The research will focus on biomimetic design of composite materials. 

The Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in the field of Solid Mechanics to begin July 1, 2009 or thereafter.  Appointment would be at the assistant or untenured associate professor level. In special cases, a senior faculty appointment may be possible.  Candidates should have a strong foundation in Solid Mechanics,  and should hold an earned Ph.D.

There will be a mini-symposium entitled "Defects and Microstructure at the Nanoscale and Beyond," at the USNCCM-10 conference in Columbus, OH, July 16 -19, 2009.  This topic is of keen interest to the I-Mechanica community and we hope many of you will join us there. Our goal is to bring together researchers from the mechanics, materials, and physics communities to cross-fertilize research on defect-mediated processes in microstructural evolution, with a focus on both hard and soft materials. 

A new journal in Materials Engineering, with emphasis on mechanical properties, will be launched this year.

The home page is at:

 http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=438

 Author instruction can be found at:

http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=438&dtype=1&jtype=

Online submission at: