In this paper, we study the effect of normal and shear strains and

oxygen vacancies on the structure of 180^o ferroelectric

domain walls in PbTiO_3.

Two PhD candidate positions are available in the Department of Mechanical engineering at the University of Rhode Island.  These fully supported positions are for thesis research to be performed in the area of microstructure/damage interactions in advanced superalloys at elevated temperature in both air and vacuum environment.  The successful candidate must have a Master degree in areas related to numerical simulation of material behavior using Abaqus platform, has exposure to mechanical testing and is strong in both materials science and mechanics.  Interested candidates can

The Department of Civil Engineering at NCSU has an opening for tenure track faculty position in the general areas of Structural Engineering and/or Mechanics. The plan is to hire the best candidate irrespective of the specific area of research focus. Interested applicants are urged to act quickly, as the final review of applications may begin as early as next week (the week of January 11). The official advertisement is given below.

Hi everyone,

    I am not a student majoring in the mechanics. But I have found that: the element eroding method is so powerful in numerical simulation (i.e. using ls-dyna) if we reduce the mesh size, then we can get a very perfect fracture process of material. So why we need fracutre mechanics?

The newly founded National Hypersonic Science Center -- Materials and Structures is to organize a minisymposium in this year's WCCM (2010) on VirtualTesting for Hybrid Hierarchical Materials for High TemperatureApplications. Please see the attachment for paper solicitation. We will greatly appreciate your consideration of submitting a paper to our symposium (minisymposium No. MS5041) 

(in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)

Johannes Zimmer, Karsten Matthies, Amit Acharya

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) possess extraordinary electrical and mechanical properties, with many possible applications in electronics and materials science. Dense, horizonally aligned arrays of linearly configured SWNTs represent perhaps the most attractive and scalable way to implement this class of nanomaterial in practical systems. Recent work shows that templated growth of tubes on certain crystalline substrates (e.g. quartz) yields arrays with the necessary levels of perfection, as demonstrated by the formation of devices and full systems on quartz.