Helping a friend to post this oppotunity - Head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. (I am not moving:))
More details can be found in the attachment, and applications and querry should be directed to the Search Committee Chair for Headship of CIVL (dhcivl [at] ust.hk).
Faculty Positions in Interdisciplinary Mechanics
Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering
Southern University of Science and Technology
We are organizing a mini-symposium, "Fracture and Instabilities in Soft Materials", on the 13th International Conference on Fracture, which will be held during June 16-21, 2013 in Beijing, China. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract on your recent research findings in related areas. The deadline for abstract submission has now been extended to October 31, 2012. Instructions on abstract submission can be found at http://www.icf13.org/. The conference anouncement is at http://www.icf13.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/final0830.pdf.
Consisting of alternating swelling and nonswelling polymeric layers (SLs and NLs), lamellar gels are 1D photonic crystals with tunable optical properties. The lamellar structure induces a constraint between the SLs and the NLs, resulting in an anisotropic swelling behavior coupled with deformation.
TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION: The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University invites applicants for a faculty position in the area of autonomous space systems. The appointment will start in August 2011. The search is focused at the Assistant and Associate Professor level, but exceptional candidates who qualify for the rank of Full Professor will also be considered.
Dielectric elastomer, as an important category of electroactive polymers, is known to have viscoelastic properties that strongly affect its dynamic performance and limit its application. Very few models accounting for the effects of both electrostatics and viscoelasticity exist in the literature, and even fewer are capable of making reliable predictions under general loads and constraints. Based on the principals of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, this paper develops a field theory that fully couples the large inelastic deformations and electric fields in deformable dielectrics.
