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This is an attempt to contribute to bring the discussion on non-linear issues in Continuum Mechanics (CM) under the comprehensive supervision of modern differential geometry (DG). Some people would say that engineers do not need so much mathematics, but such an opinion is a sure indicator of lack of knowledge of the matter. In fact I am an engineer, a University teacher and a designer in Structural Engineering and my experience is that a lot of troubles would have been saved to me by a basic training in DG.

PhD positions at the UPC-BarcelonaTech in Computational Mechanics/Numerical Analysis

Submitted by Marino Arroyo on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 08:03

Six PhD positions are available at the Laboratory of Computational Methods and Numerical Analysis (http://www-lacan.upc.edu/) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (http://www.upc.edu/) in Spain.

The four-year PhD fellowships cover the full tuition, a monthly stipend, and health insurance.

Details about the different positions can be found at http://www.lacan.upc.edu/node/49

Announcement of K.J. Bathe Award 2012

Submitted by Jung W. Hong on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 02:24

awards

Dear all,

It is my great pleasure to announce that the Third K.J. Bathe Award, made every two years, will be awarded in 2012. This award is named to recognize the outstanding contributions made by Professor K.J. Bathe over many years to the field of computational engineering.

Research Engineer position at Baker Hughes

Submitted by Jayesh_Jain on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 17:01

Baker Hughes has an opening for Research Engineer position at its Woodlands, TX office as described below. Please visit the Baker Hughes careers web site http://www.bakerhughes.com/careers for more information and for applying.

PhD Position in Nanomaterials Science at the University of Vermont

Submitted by Fred Sansoz on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 04:30

nanoscale thermoelectrics

molecular dynamics simulation

nanotwinned metals

An excellent student with research expertise and interest in molecular dynamics simulation and theory of mechanical and/or thermal transport properties in nanomaterials such as nanowires, bulk nanotwinned metals and graphene, is sought to fill a new PhD opening in my group starting in Fall 2012. Interested students should send me a detailed CV with a description of past research achievements and the names of references to frederic.sansoz [at] uvm.edu.

General consitutive modeling framework for anisotropic pro-visco-hyperelastic materials?

Submitted by azadpoor on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 10:55

education

Modeling the constitutive behavior of biological tissues often involves anisotropy, hyperelasticity, viscoelasticity, and poroelasticity. I am looking for a good monograph/paper/textbook that presents a general constitutive modeling framework where these aspects are presented in an interconnected way. Most references treat these aspects separately, perhaps devoting a chapter to every aspect.