Dear Colleague:
The 2013 summer meeting of ASME Applied Mechanics Division will be held jointly with the Society of Engineering Science at Brown University, Providence, RI, July 28-31. We are pleased to invite you to a session on Dynamic Stability of Structural Systems, under the symposium on Instability in Solids and Structures that is being organized by the AMD Technical Committee.
The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing several topics related to Multifunctional Material Systems at IMECE2013 to be held in San Diego, CA, during Nov. 15-21, 2013 .
Abstract submission deadline: February 14, 2013
M. Nosonovsky & V. Mortazavi. Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization: Mechanics and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Sliding Contact (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2013, forthcoming)
Here is the report from NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC, about Profs. John Rogers and Yonggang Huang's work on epidermal electronics.
http://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/learn/cuecard/62961
(You can press control+click to open it, or copy the above weblink to a browser)
These notes may serve as a reminder of tensor algebra. The notes supplement the course on advanced elasticity. Several books are listed at the end of the notes.
Update on 17 April. I am now breaking up the notes on tensors, cleaning them up, and posting them as sections on linear algebra.
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The Blast Impact and Survivability Research Unit (BISRU) of the
University of Cape Town has been given the privilege to host the 4th
International Conference on Impact Loading of Lightweight Structures.
