The Rodney Hill Prize for 2012 is awarded to Professor Huajian Gao of Brown University, USA. 

This prize, which consists of a plaque and a check for $25,000 (twenty-five thousand US Dollars), is to be awarded in recognition of outstanding research in the field of solid mechanics. The prize is to be awarded every 4 years, to coincide with the quadrennial International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM). The first prize was awarded at ICTAM 2008 in Adelaide.

Dear iMechanicians,

First I'd like to thank the ones sharing their lecture notes, it's
very helpful for someone who is learning fracture mechanics by himself like I
do. 

Nevertheless, I would have some questions regarding the
energetic aspect of the crack propagation. Please do not hesitate to correct me
if I am wrong. Questions are related to this lecture note, from Professor Suo: node/7507

A PhD scholarship is available at DTU Mechanical Engineering, Section for Solid Mechanics, in the field of diesel engine tribology. The scholarship focuses on computational modelling and experimental verification of fluid film and bearing parts of journal bearings in large two-stroke diesel engines. The department has well-established research activities in these fields and the present scholarship is partly funded by the EU-project Hercules-C. The research activities will be performed in close cooperation with MAN Diesel & Turbo SE located in Copenhagen.

The next conference Vibrations, Shocks and Noise will take place in Paris: July 3-5, 2012.

 http://www.vcb2012.fr/

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In this paper we make a connection between covariant elasticity based on covariance of energy balance and Lagrangian field theory of elasticity with two background metrics. We use Kuchar's idea of reparametrization of field theories and make elasticity generally covariant by introducing a "covariance field", which is a time-independent spatial diffeomorphism. We define a modified action for parameterized elasticity and show that the Doyle-Ericksen formula and spatial homogeneity of the Lagrangian density are among its Euler-Lagrange (EL) equations.