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Distinguished Lecture on Isogeometric Analysis - sponsored by Elsevier and the NJIT Granular Science Laboratory - April 11, 2012
Presented by Prof. Thomas J. R. Hughes
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
April 11, 2012
2:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC) – Room 3710
For more information about this lecture, go to http://www.journals.elsevier.com/mechanics-research-communications/
University Lectureship in Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering, University of Oxford
The Department of Engineering and Balliol College at Oxford University have a University Lectureship available in the area of Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering. We would be particularly interested in receiving applications in the general area of composite and lightweight materials, including, polymer, metal, ceramic, biological and multifunctional composites, foams and lattice materials. The closing date for applications is 16th January 2012. Further information can be found in the attached files.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Riemann-Cartan Geometry of Nonlinear Dislocation Mechanics
We present a geometric theory of nonlinear solids with distributed dislocations. In this theory the material manifold - where the body is stress free - is a Weitzenbock manifold, i.e. a manifold with a flat affine connection with torsion but vanishing non-metricity. Torsion of the material manifold is identified with the dislocation density tensor of nonlinear dislocation mechanics. Using Cartan's moving frames we construct the material manifold for several examples of bodies with distributed dislocations. We also present non-trivial examples of zero-stress dislocation distributions.
2012 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MEDAL IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
2012 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MEDAL IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Zvi Hashin, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation: For groundbreaking contributions to the accurate analysis of composite materials, which have enabled practical engineering designs of lightweight composite structures, commonly used today in aerospace, marine, automotive, and civil infrastructure.
Postdoctoral postion in Computational Crystal Plasticity at RPI
There is an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research position in the Advanced Computational Research Lab at RPI, Troy NY to work on Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Methods. Currently we are working on interesting advances in the areas of radiation damage and high strain rate loading conditions. Encouraged to apply are creative, self-motivated individuals with a sound baclkground in computational mechanics, CPFEM and materials science. RPI is home to the CCNI, one of the most powerful university-based supercomputational research facilities in the world.