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USNCCM-11 Minisymposium on Multiscale Transport Phenomena in Biological and Biomedical System

Submitted by Ashfaq Adnan on

Dear Colleagues:

Wing Kam Liu and I (Ashfaq Adnan) would like to invite you to submit abstract(s) to the following mini-symposium at the upcoming 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://www.usnccm.org/). The congress is scheduled to be held on July 25-29, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

 14.2 Multiscale Transport Phenomena in Biological and Biomedical System 

Strain stiffening induced by molecular motors in active crosslinked biopolymer networks

Submitted by Peng Chen on

We have studied the elastic response of actin networks with both compliant and rigid crosslinks by modeling molecular motors as force dipoles. Our finite element simulations show that for compliant crosslinkers such as filamin A, the network can be stiffened by two orders of magnitude while stiffening achieved with incompliant linkers such as scruin is significantly smaller, typically a factor of two, in excellent agreement with recent experiments.

Had somebody implemented the MMA or GCMMA algorithm (Svanberg) in the 99 lines Topology Optimization Matlab code(Sigmund)?

Submitted by felipecardenas on

Hello everybody,

 I need some help. I have a lot of problems trying to implement the MMA or GCMMA optimizer in the Sigmund's Topology Optimization code (99 lines). Have you ever do that?. Please, is very important for my pregraduate thesis.

Thanks.

 Felipe Cárdenas Díaz

Universidad de Concepción - Chile

东南大学工程力学系诚聘国内外优秀人才

Submitted by Ling Qiao on

    东南大学力学学科的历史可追溯到上世纪50年代,由原南京工学院的胡乾善和梁治明两位知名教授领衔成立力学教研组、设置力学专业、招收本科生和研究生。经过五十余年的建设,东南大学工程力学系现有力学一级学科博士后流动站,工程力学和固体力学两个二级学科博士点,力学一级学科硕士学位授予权(含工程力学、固体力学、动力学与控制、流体力学四个二级学科硕士点),工程力学本科专业。由于学科发展需要,现面向海内外诚聘师资。

一、招聘条件     获得知名大学力学或相关学科博士学位;发表过多篇高水平学术论文;有较强的团队合作能力及宽阔的学术视野; 

二、招聘专业     工程力学、固体力学、动力学与控制、流体力学。

 三、应聘材料    中英文学术简历各一份、3篇代表性论文全文。 

Lecture Notes on Composites

Submitted by John R. Willis on

In addition to the notes on stability that I've already posted, I have a set on Composites, which also originated from a lecture course that I gave in Ecole Polytechnique, around 2002. In the hope that they may be of interest at least to someone, here they are! Please do remember that they are just notes and may not be error-free.

resonant behaviour of damped beam

Submitted by laxmaneagertolearn on

 hi

i have a problem in finding the quality factor of cantilever beam (one end is fixed and other end is free ) vibrating in air /other medium? how the qualtiy factor expression for beam is calculated? whether all these expressions applicable to micro and nano cantilevers.

please explain me.

i am new to this area. i read books on vibrations of beam. i didnt get anything

please mention steps for finding quality factor of cantilever beam in air medium(damped system)

USNCCM-11 Minisymposium on Mechanics of Materials from Nano to Macro Scales

Submitted by Ken P. Chong on

Dear Colleagues,  You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the following mini-symposium at the 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://www.usnccm.org/), to be held on July 25-29, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 

7.7 Mechanics of Materials from Nano to Macro Scales Organized by James D. Lee and Ken P. Chong,  The George Washington University 

Symposium on Mechanical Characterization and modeling of tissues and biomedical materials at EUROMAT 2011

Submitted by venapa on

Dear Colleagues and friends,



you are kindly invited to participate to the next European Congress
on Advanced Materials and Process:

EUROMAT2011 ( http://euromat2011.fems.eu/)
to be held in Montpellier, France, September 12-15, 2011.

In particular, you might be interested in submitting your abstract
to the symposium

F14: "Mechanical characterization and modeling of tissues and
biomedical materials at all length scales"


APS March Meeting Focus session: "Fracture, Friction, and Deformation Across Length Scales"

Submitted by Robin Selinger on

Abstracts due Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 

APS March Meeting Focus session: "Tribophysics: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales"

March 21 - 25, 2011, Dallas, Texas

Details at http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/scientific/focus2.cfm#12.7.3

Invited speakers: Michael Marder (Univ. of Texas); Julia Greer (Caltech)

Organizers: Robin Selinger (Kent State), Jacqueline Krim (NCSU), Noam Bernstein (NRL)