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Call for papers - Minisymposium on Multiscale Simulations for Composite Materials and Mechanical Sys‏tems at WCCM8

Submitted by Tianxiang Liu on

Call for papers

Minisymposium on

“Multiscale Simulations for Composite Materials and Mechanical Systems”(ID-110)

on the

8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8)

and the

5th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008)

to be held at the Lido Island in Venice (Italy) on 30 June - 4 July 2008  

Dear Colleagues, 

Rippling and a phase-transforming mesoscopic model for multiwalled carbon nanotubes

Submitted by Marino Arroyo on

Dear colleagues, 

I would like to share the following paper, in press in the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. It can be found at the publisher's web at

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2007.10.001

 A preprint is also attached below.

Abstract

Writings of scientists on doing research

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

In a previous post, Learning to be a PhD advisor, I wrote about learning to do my job from students.  Over the years, I have also learned from writings of other scientists on doing research, its dynamics:  competition, despair, and exhilaration...  Here is a small sample that occurs to me this morning.