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Program available for 5th IC Fracture of Polymers, Composites & Adhesives

Submitted by Dean Eastbury on

The full oral program is now available via the conference website at http://www.tc4pca.elsevier.com/index.htm. Register now to participate at this well-received single session conference held in the beautiful Alpine village of Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

I need help for programming immersed boundary (solid-fluid) interaction

Submitted by Azim-berdy Besya on

I am a PhD student of Computational Nanotechnology. I am working on my thesis about flow characteristics of biological nanopores. In part of my thesis I need to simulate the flow inside the nanopore with known method for solid-fluid interaction such as immersed bondary method developed by professor Peskin. Can you please help me in programming this method for my special problem. I appreciate in advance your favours.

One PhD and one post doctoral position in “Multi-scale Modeling" at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Submitted by Zhiliang Zhang on

The Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) announces a vacant PhD position and a vacant post doctoral position in the area of multi-scale modelling of mono-sized polymer particles. The two positions will be a part of the new NANOMAT KMB project “From Molecular Structures to Mechanical Properties: Multi-scale Modelling for Polymer Particles (MS2MP)”, funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Large deformation and instability in gels

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

I'm attaching slides of a talk that I gave yesterday at the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center.  In preparing the talk, I made liberal use of slides prepared by Wei Hong for his own presentations.  The talk is mainly based on the following papers:

Postdoctoral position at RPI in modeling respiratory motion during cancer radiation therapy

Submitted by Suvranu De on

Brief description: There is an
opening for a postdoctoral research position in the Advanced Computational
Research Laboratory at RPI, Troy, NY to work on an ongoing R01 reesearch project sponsored by the National Institutes of Health on the modeling of respiratory motion from patient-specific 4D CT images. In external beam radiation treatment, a lethal radiation dose is delivered through precisely conformed

Journal Club Theme of March 1: Measuring Cellular Tractions

Submitted by Vesna Damljanovic on
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Cell tractions are the outcome of the complex process of cytoskeletal force generation that cell uses to maintain structural stability, to sense the physical environment and to propel itself.  We are only now beginning to understand the process of cytoskeletal force generation, and we cannot yet say much about the losses in transmission through focal adhesion/integrin complexes (attachment ‘islands’ at the cell-substrate interface), but we can definitely measure the tractions that result from cytoskeletal force generation.  The mechanics behind the measurement method might be of interest to the wider audience of iMechanica, as it involves an interesting inverse problem and different solution methods that have incited lively discussions in past years.

Seeking candidates for positions in Houston, also positions in Germany

Submitted by Edward W. Walbridge on

Our agency, Reliability Analysis Associates, Inc., specializes in recruiting Reliability Engineers and related skills.   For a client in the oil business in Houston, TX we are seeking candidates for two positions that require knowlege of finite element analysis, crack growth, reliability, and low cycle fatigue.   The two job descriptions are attached.