The paper gives a systematical introduction on dimensional analysis (DA), and proposes a six-steps on how to use the dimensional analysis, the universality of the DA will be shown by some typical examples, such as, point blast, pipe flow and a small sphere moving through a viscous fluid.
published: Physics and Engineering, Vol 26, No.6, pp.11-20, 2016. Invited article, in Chinese)
Invitation to attend our Mechanics Symposium
A Conference of the ASCE / Engineering Mechanics Institute
COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MECHANICS (CAM)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
19-22 March 2017
Please see the website:
The Composite Materials Group is currently looking for a postdoc, with experience in production and characterisation of composites. It's a £2-year position, starting on the 1st of February 2017. The topic is hybridisation of self-reinforced composites with high performance fibres. You can find all the details on http://tinyurl.com/hythec .
Update: this position is now closed!
Acta Mechanica Sinica (Volume 32, Issue 6, 2016 ) is online now !
Dear everyone!
The sixth issue in 2016 (Volume 32, Issue 6) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is online now.
Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for our mini-symposium (MS13) on Mechanics of Bioinspired Materials and Structures in the upcoming EMI conference (June 4-7, 2017) at San Diego. The scope of the mini-symposium is listed below:
Kindly view the PDF announcement for more details. The research will be conducted under the supervision of Professor Maurizio Porfiri, director of the DSL. The Dynamical Systems Laboratory (DSL) is seeking to recruit outstanding Ph.D. students in a number of funded research projects.
We are looking for PhD candidates (Research Assistships) to conduct research in the area of Mechanics of Soft Matter and Living Cells. Motivated individuals interested in either experiments or computational analysis are encouraged to apply by sending emails to Prof. Sulin Zhang at (suz10 [at] psu.edu (suz10[at]psu[dot]edu)).
Short course at Centre International de Sciences Mechanique (CISM), Udine.
May 22-26, 2017
Lecturers: S Forest, I Groma, D McDowell, S Mesarovic, J-N Roux, H Zbib
The flyer is attached. Register at: http://www.cism.it/courses/C1703/
Summary
Since the beginning of the industrial age, material performance and design have been in the midst of innovation of many disruptive technologies. Today’s electronics, space, medical, transportation, and other industries are enriched by development, design and deployment of composite, heterogeneous and multifunctional materials. As a result, materials innovation is now considerably outpaced by other aspects from component design to product cycle. In this article, we review predictive nonlinear theories for multiscale modeling of heterogeneous materials.
