There are two polar contemporary approaches to the constitutive modeling of arterial wall with anisotropy induced by collagen fibers. The first one is based on the angular integration (AI) of the strain energy on a unit sphere for the analytically defined fiber dispersion. The second one is based on the introduction of the generalized structure tensors (GST). AI approach is very involved computationally while GST approach requires somewhat complicated procedure for the exclusion of compressed fibers. 

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Job Title                                Internship in Materials for O&G

We encourage you to contribute an abstract to the symposium "Constitutive Modeling of Amorphous and Particulate Systems" (Symposium 322) at the 18th U.S. National Congress for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) to be held at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL, June 4-9, 2018. The symposium description may be found below. For further details and to submit an abstract, please see the meeting website.

The abstract submission deadline is November 10, 2017.

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to cordially invite you to submit an abstract to our symposium titled “Smart Hydrogels and Living Materials” as part of the 2018 Spring MRS conference  that will be held in April 2-6, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona.

The deadline for abstract submission is Oct. 31st, 2017.

Details can be found below and through the website: http://www.mrs.org/spring-2018-call-for-papers/call-for-papers-detail/?…

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