The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) invites
applications for tenure-track or tenured faculty position, at all levels, beginning Fall 2013 or later.
Successful candidates are expected to establish an internationally recognized
dynamic research program in the area of experimental biomechanics and
mechanobiology. Special preference would be given to those pursuing cellular
level and/or single molecule studies of living systems with emphasis on
healthcare applications. Exceptionally strong senior candidates will be

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the EMI 2013 conference has been extended to February 17, 2013.  For details on the conference to be held on August 4-7, 2013 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois,  visit http://www.emi2013.northwestern.edu/ .

Baker Hughes has an opportunity for summer internship in the area of drilling mechanics and dynamics at Woodlands Technology Center, The Woodlands, Texas. The position is open to candidates in MS or PhD program in Mechanical/Civil/Aerospace/Mining engineering, Materials Science or relevant disciplines at a US University 

M.T. Hoang, J. Yvonnet, A. Mitrushchenkov, G. Chambaud, First-principles based multiscale model of piezoelectric nanowires with surface effecs, Journal of Applied Physics, 113(1):014309, 2013

http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/japiau/v113/i1/p014309_s1

Post-print :

http://hal-univ-mlv.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/77/09/98/PDF/_39_Pre_P…

These notes are part of a course on advanced elasticity.  The notes recall several phenomena where both elasticity and surface energy are significant, including

• Griffith crack
• Adhesion of flexible structures
• Wafer bonding
• Contraction of a soft elastic sheet 

The notes also contain a formulation of combined surface energy and elasticity of finite deformation.  

Compatibility equations of elasticity are almost 150 years old. Interestingly they do not seem to have been rigorously studied for non-simply-connected bodies to this date. In this paper we derive necessary and sufficient compatibility equations of nonlinear elasticity for arbitrary non-simply-connected bodies when the ambient space is Euclidean. For a non-simply-connected body, a measure of strain may not be compatible even if the standard compatibility equations ("bulk" compatibility equations) are satisfied.

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the co-organizers, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium on "Symposium on Advanced Nanomanufacturing and Mechanics of Structural Nanomaterials", Topic 10-7 under track "Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids" at the upcoming 2013 ASME IMECE conference to be held in San Diego, CA from November 15-21.

It is our pleasure to inform you about the Third African Conference on Computational Mechanics, which will take place in Livingstone, Zambia between 30 July and 2 August 2013. The conference is held under the auspices of the IACM, ECCOMAS, and SAAM. Please refer to www.africomp.com for further details.