Dear All,

             There is an excellent tool called Mendeley that can be freely downloaded from (www.mendeley.com). It helps you in organizing the literature collection and  in optimizing the literature review process.

Thanks and Regards,

Naga Sai Rohith

Hi everybody,

I am dealing with a beam with a hole containing a crack loaded at the mid-span. I am wondering if the stress intensity factors

(KI, KII) closed form solution have been expanded for this case or not? I would appreciate if anybody could hlep me about this

case.

Thank you,

Parisa

A review paper on stretchable electronics written by Professors John A. Rogers, Takao Someya, and Yonggang Huang was published in a recent issue of Science . This paper gives a nice summary on the recent advances in inorganic and organic stretchable electronics. Materials, structures and mechanics of these systems are discussed. Many attractive applications of stretchable electronics are introduced, such as stretchable silicon circuit, electronic eyeball camera, and flexible LED display. 

The Society of the Engineering Science is sponsoring the 47th Annual Technical Meeting (SES2010) on October 4-6, 2010 at Iowa State University in Ames, IA. The meeting is held on biannual basis as a standalone meeting to foster and promote the exchange of ideas and information among the various disciplines of engineering and the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, bioengineering and related scientific and engineering fields.

Elsevier is pleased to announce that details of the oral programme for the 8th Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials conference are now available - please visit www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com for more information. Invited speakers will include:

Don't miss out! Register by Friday 9th April 2010 to save on the cost of your registration fee for the Fourth International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis at Churchill College in Cambridge from 4th - 7th July 2010.

Elsevier is pleased to announce details of the oral programme are now available - please visit www.icefa.elsevier.com for more information. Keynote speakers will be:

Please note the Minisymposium on Sampling theory and meshfree methods as a part of

the International Conference on Computational and Mathematical methods in Science and Engineering

CMMSE 2010, 26-30 June 2010, Almeria, Andalucia, Spain --   http://gsii.usal.es/~CMMSE  --

 This mini-symposium aims to bring together such related areas of
mathematics and computational mechanics as Sampling Theory and Meshfree
Numerical Methods.

These notes belong to a course on fracture mechanics

Lecture 1 described the Begley-Landes experiment, and the blunting of a crack due to large deformation. Lecture 2 is motivated by the following considerations.

The Institute of Lightweight Design and Structural Biomechanics

(http://www.ilsb.tuwien.ac.at ) of Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, has an opening for a Postdoc in Experimental (Bio)Mechanics for a period of two years.

Please, see http://www.ilsb.tuwien.ac.at/gener/aussch18e2.pdf for details