This paper extends the recently developed theories of fracture
mechanics with finite growth (mainly the work of Pugno and Ruoff, 2004
on quantized fracture mechanics) to fractal cracks. One interesting
result is the prediction of crack roughening for fractal cracks.

Subra Suresh , the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is named the next dean of the School of Engineering, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Read more. 

Kathleen S. Toohey, Nancy R. Sottos, Jennifer A. Lewis, Jeffrey S. Moore, and Scott R. White

Prof. Philippe Geubelle, Dr. Rajesh Kitey and I are organizing a symposium on Mechanics of Thin Films and Layered Materials  at 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society for Engineering Science, Texas A&M University, October 21-24, 2007. 



The abstract deadline has been extended until June 30, 2007.  Abstracts should prepared according to the instructions posted on the web at http://ses2007.tamu.edu/abstract.php. 

On 6 June 2007, about 50 mechanicians attended a special session at the McMat 2007, "iMechanica.org get together". The attendees of this special session came from various job sectors, such as academia, industry as well as government agencies. The session was chaired by K. Ravi-Chander and Rui Huang, who also served in the organizing committee of McMat 2007.

The 2007 Maurice A. Biot Medal for Poromechanics has been awarded during the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference held at Virginia Tech last Tuesday.



The 2007 Biot Medal winner is Dr. James R. Rice of Harvard University.



If you are interested in further information, such as citation of Dr. Rice's work, and photos, you can check this page:

http://www.olemiss.edu/sciencenet/poronet/medal.html