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Faculty Position in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University

Submitted by Douglas P Holmes on

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in biomechanics, to begin Fall 2016. This position is at the level of Assistant Professor.   The department seeks to build upon its core strength in mechanical engineering as well as its collaborative research areas in mechanics of biological materials and soft materials.

Peptide–Graphene Interactions Enhance the Mechanical Properties of Silk Fibroin

Submitted by Jingjie Yeo on
research
silk fibroin
graphene
molecular dynamics
hydrogen bonding
structures
mechanical property

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.5b05615 Studies reveal that biomolecules can form intriguing molecular structures with fascinating functionalities upon interaction with graphene. Then, interesting questions arise. How does silk fibroin interact with graphene? Does such interaction lead to an enhancement in its mechanical properties?

On the origins of the idea of the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient

Submitted by arash_yavari on
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Usually the multiplicative decomposition of deformation gradient in finite plasticity is (incorrectly) attributed to Lee and Liu (1967). This short note discusses the origins of this idea, which go back to the late 1940s. We explain that the first explicit mention of this decomposition appeared a decade earlier in the work of Bilby, et al. (1957) and Kröner (1959). While writing this note I found out that Bruce Bilby passed away a couple of years ago at the age of 91.

PhD/Postdoctoral position@KIT (Germany) on phase-field modeling of polycrystalline evolution in geological veins

Submitted by Kumar Ankit on
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GEOLAB, a joint initiative of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany), Helmholtz
centers for Environmental Research (UFZ) and Geosciences (GFZ,Potsdam) invite applications
for a PhD/Postdoc candidate position (Salary scale TV-L E13).

International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials XI

Submitted by Sophie Hayward on
Fatigue damage; contact fatigue; structural metals; Macro-scale Fatigue Prognosis Techniques; Microstructure Scale Computational Modeling; crack growth; environmental cracking; residual stress; corrosion; abrasion; oxidation

The eleventh biennial International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials will be held in scenic Cape Cod at The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts from the 18-24 September 2016. This prestigious and long running conference will bring together delegates from around the world to discuss how to characterize, predict, and analyze the fatigue damage of structural materials.

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