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Postdoc Position in Chile (nonlinear elasticity, continuum mechanics)

Submitted by Roger Bustamante on

The Superior Councils for Science and Technological Development of Chile will

call on April for the FONDECYT Postdoctoral Grants Competition.







The available grants are for 2 or 3 years. The applicants must have obtained

their Doctorate degrees approximately between July of 2010 and the end of

September of 2013 (the exact dates will appear in the page of the agency later

on).

Unexpected two-phase lithiation of amorphous Si

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Two-phase electrochemical lithiation in amorphous silicon

Jiangwei Wang, Yu He, Feifei Fan, Xiao-Hua Liu, Shuman Xia, Yang Liu, Thomas Harris, Hong Li, Jian Yu Huang, Scott X. Mao, and Ting Zhu

Nano Letters, Publication Date (Web): January 16, 2013

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl304379k



In-situ TEM of two-phase lithiation of amorphous silicon nanospheres

Doctoral Engineering RA Position in Computational FEA and Rigid Body Modeling

Submitted by jfchessa on

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at
El Paso is seeking a highly motivated and experienced graduate student
as a paid research assistant (RA) in our new Ph.D. program in Biomedical
Engineering for the Fall of 2013 or sooner if key applicant is found.
Research will be conducted in the newly established musculoskeletal
biomechanics laboratory in our new Biomedical Engineering Building.



This
doctoral level RA will focus specifically on computational models of

Symposium on Li-ion batteries at the SES 50th annual meeting

Submitted by Kejie Zhao on

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider to attend the symposium entitled  "Lithium ion batteries - when chemistry meets mechanics"  at the occasion of the Joint Society of Engineering Science (SES) 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting, July 28-31, 2013, at Brown University.



The description of the symposium is attached below.

Phononics 2013

Submitted by mihussein on

We cordially invite you to participate in Phononics 2013: The Second International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Optomechanics – to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from June 2–7, 2013. The conference covers the following themes:

(1) phononic crystals, (2) acoustic metamaterials, (3) wave propagation in periodic structures, (4) nanoscale phonon transport, and (5) optomechanics.  

More information available at: www.phononics2013.org.

Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications

Submitted by Laura De Lorenzis on
A Special Session on Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications is being organized within the 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART 2013, June 24-26, Torino, Italy), http://www.mul2.polito.it/smart13. Organizers are M. Paggi, L. De Lorenzis and A. Piccolroaz.
 

Deadline to submit abstracts for PACAM XIII extended

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

Based on several requests, the deadline to submit abstracts for the Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics XIII has been extended to the 1st of February. This years PACAM will be held in Houston, TX--the first time PACAM is being held in North America! The conference will feature plenary talks by Professors Alan Needleman, K. Ravichandar and Roger Fosdick.

 The link to the conference website is here: http://www.conferencetoolbox.org/PACAMXIII/

 

Living cells behave as fluid-filled sponges

Submitted by emadmoeen on
Animal cells behave like fluid-filled sponges in response to being mechanically deformed according to new research published in Nature Materials.

Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL have shown that animal cells behave according to the theory of ‘poroelasticity’ when mechanically stimulated in a way similar to that experienced in organs within the body. The results indicate that the rate of cell deformation in response to mechanical stress is limited by how quickly water can redistribute within the cell interior.