Localization of Inelastic Deformation 2008
Dear colleagues,
I would like to bring to your attention the advanced course on Modeling of localized inelastic deformation that will be taught by Milan Jirasek in Prague, Czech Republic on 22-26 September 2008.
More detailed information on the course is posted at http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2008.html. We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague!
Lecture notes on "Elasticity" and "Statistical Mechanics"
The lecture notes of the two courses I taught at Stanford University during the last two quarters, "ME 340 Elasticity" and "ME 334 Introduction to Statistical Mechanics", are available in PDF format online at:
http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me340/
http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me334/
Perhaps it could be useful to you.
Maximum entropy coordinates for arbitrary polytopes
In the attached paper, we construct new generalized coordinates for arbitrary polytopes in d-dimensions (polygons and polyhedra in 2- and 3-dimensions, respectively) using the principle of maximum entropy. The paper is to appear in Computer Graphics Forum and will be presented at the SGP'08 Conference in Denmark.
Web 2.0 and Medicine
I stumbled across this interesting blog post yesterday concerning an upcoming course on medicine via web 2.0. It appeared quite interesting from several perspectives: first, medicine is often associated with being behind the times on technology but this all looks pretty current, secondly it may be the most comprehensive listing of topics I have seen where web 2.0 is applied to a single discipline, and finally it made me wonder what more we could do with mechanics via web 2.0 beyon
Effect of Surface Morphology on the Stability of Thin Nanostructures
We have recently studied the atomic scale structural stability of
freestanding wavy gold (Au) nanofilms using molecular dynamics
simulations. In recent years, wavy or patterned structurs have shown great promise for applications in various emerging technologies including fuel cells
engineering, tissue engineering, biomedical engineering, creation
of counterfeit-resistant documents , nanolithography in microelectronics, optoelectronics, nanomachinesand many others. It is out of question that the success of these novel applications lies on one crucial factor – the