Post-Doctoral Fellowships with Dr. T. Belytschko at Northwestern University
We are no longer accepting applications for these positions. Qualified applicants will be contacted in the near future.
Thank you for your interest,
Robert Gracie
Reminder - abstract submission date for 7th IC Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials
The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the biennial Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials series (www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com) is 28 November 2007.
The conference will take place will take place in Hyannis, MA, USA, 14-19 September 2008. Hyannis is located on the beautiful Cape Cod peninsula just 90 minutes from Boston's Logan International Airport and T.F.Green Airport in Providence.
For a nanosystem the second law of thermodynamics is still effective
For a nanosystem,the total number of atoms(say less than 100),I want to knom In such a system the second law of thermodynamics is still effective ?
Education in Mechanics - Call for papers
Call for Papers on Education in Mechanics
22nd International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2008)
Adelaide, Australia, August 24 – 30, 2008
Two Doctoral Research Positions Available in the Cornell Fracture Group
The Cornell Fracture Group (CFG) has 2 new PhD student positions open on NASA-sponsored projects.
NASA Constellation University Institutes Project: Develop a hierarchical, multi-scale simulator for damage tolerance and durability of advanced composite structures.
NASA Integrated Resilient Aircraft Control Project: Develop a simulation capability to determine residual strength of damaged aircraft structure.
Cell mechanics workshop
The Center for Cellular Mechanics at U of Illinois has recently hosted a week long summer workshop on Cell Mechano Sensitivity (July 30-Aug 3, 2007. The workshop had lectures in the morning an hands on-labs in the aternoons. All the lectures are on the web (with slides and video). They include a large collection of references. The web also has the laboratory protocols for cell culture, cell fixing and staining, single molecule detection, florescence microscopy, and much more. Visit the website:
Large elastic strain - limits of Green strain
I am looking at problems of large deformation and large elastic strain in biological materials, using an analytical model that determines the current deformed state in a single step from the original undeformed state. The approach is to propose a strain energy function to allow the calculation of Piola-Kirchhoff 2 stresses which may then be converted to true Cauchy stresses via the usual mapping. Since I initially calculate PK2 stresses, the strain energy function must be a function of Green strain.
Journal Club November 2007: Surface Effects on Nanomaterials
Nanoscale materials, including thin films, quantum dots, nanowires, nanobelts, etc – are all structurally unique because they have a relatively high ratio of surface area to volume ratio. This increase in surface area to volume ratio is important for nanomaterials because wide and unexpected variations in mechanical and other physical properties, such as thermal, electrical and optical, have been found to scale in some proportion to increase in surface area to volume ratio.
Asst. Prof. - Harvard - Mechanical engineering - design
Faculty Opening - Assistant Professor. Mechanical Engineering - Design, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (HSEAS) seeks applicants for a faculty position as a tenure track assistant professor in the area of mechanical engineering. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest and background in teaching design, as well as outstanding research capabilities. Areas of interest include mechanics and materials (particularly MEMS and NEMS), fluids, mechatronics, robotics, and biomechanics.