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Chair in Aerospace Structural Dynamics, University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is seeking a full Professor in the field of Aerospace Structural Dynamics.

The University is significantly expanding its capacity in Science and Engineering, with 275 million

GBP (approx 440M USD) capital spend on campus and 80M GBP (130M USD) on new academic staff.

As part of this expansion the University seeks to employ a new chair in Structural Dynamics particularly as applied to aerospace or related fields.

Dear colleagues,

I would like to bring to your attention the advanced course on Modeling of localized inelastic deformation that will be taught by Milan Jirasek in Prague, Czech Republic on 12-16 September 2011. More detailed information on the course is posted at http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/~milan/course2011.html. We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague!

Original research papers, for oral or poster presentation, are invited for the following areas:

Chair in Cell Mechanics, University of Exeter

The University of Exeter
is significantly expanding its capacity in Science and Engineering, with 275 million
GBP (approx 440M USD) capital spend on campus and 80M GBP (130M USD) on new academic staff.

The university seeks to employ two new chairs in i) cell mechanics and ii) physical cell biology. Research areas of interest for the chair in cell mechanics might include computational fluid or solid mechanics.

In this paper, the coupled thermo-mechanical response of shape memory alloy (SMA) bars and wires in tension is studied.It is shown that the accuracy of assuming adiabatic or isothermal conditions in the tensile response of SMA bars strongly depends on the size and the ambient condition in addition to the rate-dependency that has been known in the literature.

There are only a few days left to submit your paper, if you would like your research to feature at the 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues. Please go to the Abstract Submission page and register first, then upload your abstract. You will need the following information:

Dr Pat Campbell, Director of the Implant Retrieval Laboratory Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital, will be giving a Keynote Lecture at the ICoBT Imperial College London 18-21 September.  

The topic of her keynote will be implant retrieval analysis as a tool to investigate and solve clinical problems.  Metal-on-metal hip premature failure and revision is the focus of intense interest and controversy at present.