The Sonny Astani Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California has two faculty position openings.  Details can be found at  http://cee.usc.edu/facultysearch .

Teledyne Scientific Company announces the opening of a new position at its Thousand Oaks, California facility. This position offers you the opportunity to utilize and expand your academic training in mechanical engineering. The position will be associated with Teledyne Scientific Composite Materials group. The group has been for the past 20 years at the forefront of the design and characterization of materials for extreme environments including unique types of high-temperature composites for the aerospace industry.

I post the links to some of our recently published papers on magneto-elasticity. These are iron-filled elastomers whose mechanical properties can be influenced by the application of a magnetic field. A continuum theory that accounts for magneto-mechanical coupling as well as rate-dependent energy dissipating deformations is presented.

I also attach post-print versions of these articles here. Hopefully, they can be useful for some people working in this field.

We have a new paper in IJSS that discusses details about Abaqus user elements, in the context of polymer gels, that may be useful to the community. The supplemental material of the paper provides the UEL code, some input files, as well as a short tutorial that should be helpful to others in their own research projects, even if not related to gels.

The link to the files is: http://web.njit.edu/~sac3/Software.html

Here is the link:

http://bit.ly/1woJzOp

Requisition ID:95396

Experience with phase-chase modeling or FSI is a plus.  

Please feel free to forward this posting to potential candidates.  Thanks!

Dear Colleagues, we cordially invite you to participate in PACAM XV.The Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics XV will be held in Champaign, IL from May 18 to May 21, 2015, under the auspices of the American Academy of Mechanics and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The conference will feature plenary lectures by Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology), Prof.

We cordially invite you to participate in the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)'s 13thU.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM13) by giving a talk in our minisymposium entitled Multiscale Concurrent Multi-length scale modeling: from Finite Elements to Atoms and Electrons. The Congress will be held in San Diego, California, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, July 26-30, 2015.

Research paper.

Title:  Ionic Skin

Authors: J.-Y. Sun, C. Keplinger, G.M. Whitesides, Z. Suo

Introduction

Happy Halloween!

In this issue of the Journal Club, I would like to introduce the problem of catalyzed growth of semiconductor nanowires and ways to model it.  I would provide web links to only a few articles, hoping that you would download and actually read them so that we can have a more in-depth discussion.