Fully funded Ph.D. positions are available in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. The research focus will be on developing and using multiscale methods for modeling nanocomposites and nanomaterials. Candidates should have a BS or MS degree in
mechanical engineering, material science, civil engineering or other related
areas. Computational experience at the continuum or molecular level is
preferred but is not necessary.  Interested
candidates please send a CV to atabarra [at] uncc.edu (atabarra[at]uncc[dot]edu)

Representatives from several countries have contacted the Local Organising Committee of ICTAM2012 (http://www.ictam2012.org/) to say that many of their colleagues had found it impossible to meet the deadline of 9 January, because it was too close to their countries’ winter holidays, and requesting an extension. The organisers therefore announce an extension until 24.00 hours (Beijing time) on Thursday 19 January, 2012, by which time all short papers must be received.

Study on the properties of inhomogeneous media plays a central role throughout the history of physics, e.g.

Possion’s theory on magnetism of composites, Faraday’s dielectric model of composites, Maxwell’s and later

Rayleigh’s work on conductivity of composites, and Einstein’s thesis on viscosity of fluid-particle media. As

a special branch of this field, percolation research on phase transition and critical phenomena was originated

with lattice percolation theories in 1950s [1]. The idealization of a lattice structure is convenient for analytical

As of 8 January 2012, the number of registered users of iMechanica exceeded 30,000 , the total number of posts is 11,690, the total number of comments is 18,000.  After five years and four months since its launch, iMechanica still keeps growing steadily.



Founded in September 2006, iMechanica aims

Individual GaN Nanowires Exhibit Strong Piezoelectricity in 3D 

PostDoc Opening in Ortiz Group at MIT: Mechanics of Structural Biological and Bioinspired Materials

(http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www)

We have a new paper published, " Stiffness and strength of suture joints in nature, " PHYSICAL REVIEW E

84, 062904 (2011) by Yaning Li, Christine Ortiz, and Mary C. Boyce.
Download the paper from here:

http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/publications.html. We welcome any comments to cortiz [at] mit.edu (cortiz[at]mit[dot]edu).

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 111, 013510 (2012)

Dear imechanicians,



I would like to wish
you a Happy New Year 2012 (Blwyddyn Newydd Dda 2012), and hope
that it will bring you what you seek in life.



The best wishes from our
institute (iMAM) in Cardiff are attached.



In the attachment, you will
find information about the next ECCOMAS Conference on the
extended finite element method (XFEM 2013) and details on the
activities of our institute in 2011.



Finally, I would like to let
you know that our institute is co-organising the following