Mike Ciavarella's blog
retirement age or discrimination? Nature speaks of "sticking" around, but in europe we have new laws
In January 2011, the UK government announced its intention to stop
compulsory retirement for people aged 65, despite criticism of the move
by employers’ groups. Campaigners against age discrimination and unions
welcomed the change. However, official guidance makes it clear that
employers will be able to dimiss staff no longer capable of carrying out
their work. Official figures show more than two thirds of British
employers have already eliminated fixed retirement ages.
9 PhD positions in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di BARI - Italy
Dealine is 26 January 2012 at 13.00. ATTACHED YOU FIND ALL THE NEEDED DOCUMENTS! Which you find also here .
We have 9 positions available starting between Jan and March 2012 on various themes of mechanical and management engineering at Politecnico di BARI .
Mechanics of love and happiness
An interesting application of non linear dynamics, including happiness with a simple 1D damped oscillator!
Frictional energy dissipation in contact of nominally flat rough surfaces under harmonically varying loads
Frictional energy dissipation in contact of nominally flat rough surfaces under harmonically varying loads Original Research Article
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, , Available online 1 October 2011,
C. Putignano, M. Ciavarella, J.R. Barber View Abstract
A simple approximate expression for finite life fatigue behaviour in the presence of ‘crack-like’ or ‘blunt’ notches
After a long process (somebody may recall I made also quite some chaos on imechanica to complain with the review process in a previous journal), this paper was accepted. Ask me a preprint if you are interested. I can attach here a few images only.
M. CIAVARELLA
Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy
Received in final form 13 June 2011
Benoit Mandelbrot dies at 85
| Mandelbrot has passed away last week. A very interesting mathematician, who received tenure from Yale only at 75, he has introduced fractals also in fracture mechanics. |
| Benoit Mandelbrot, Father of Fractals, Dies at 85 |
Neet generation, generation not-not, generacion ni-ni, many terms one meaning!
I think I have spoken various times of this problem.
In Italy there was today an announcement that we have the biggest such problem in Europe. See here .
When I search in wikipedia, I find various terms.
Workshop & trip to Ferrari MilleChili lab and Galleria Ferrari with 50 students from Politecnico di Bari
On friday we had a wonderful trip to Modena, at the University of Modena's Millechili
Lab with which I collaborate also for the MilleChili journal Millechili Journal -- weight reduction in vehicle design.
In collaboration with Ferrari SpA project.