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In continuum mechanics, it is a common practice to view a body as a field of material particles, so that the continuum mechanics is phrased as an algorithm to determine the function x(X, t), where X is the name of a particle, and x is the place of the particle at time t.

Second International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues

Submitted by MichelleLOyen on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 11:43

conference

biomechanics

Abstracts are due April 27, 2007 for the Second International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, to take place on the Hawai’ian island of Kaua’i. Full call for papers is at the conference website. The conference is hosted by Elsevier and the launch of a new Elsevier journal on biomechanics will coincide with the timing of the meeting. (The official journal website is here.)

New Biomechanics Journal

Submitted by MichelleLOyen on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 11:38

research

biomechanics

A new journal has been started, "Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials," to be published by Elsevier from November, 2007. From the Journal's website:

John Hutchinson's Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics (Pages Rotated)

Submitted by Daniel S. Balint on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 10:57

Attached to this post are the notes John posted in his blog, with all pages rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees, for those who would like to read them on their computers.

Deformation of FCC Nanowires by Twinning and Slip

Submitted by Harold S. Park on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 21:01

We present atomistic simulations of the tensile and compressive loading of single crystal FCC nanowires with <100> and <110> orientations to study the propensity of the nanowires to deform via twinning or slip. By studying the deformation characteristics of three FCC materials with disparate stacking fault energies (gold, copper and nickel), we find that the deformation mechanisms in

A Discussion on Time Integrators

Submitted by Kapil.Nandwana on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 19:19

computational mechanics

Time Interators

Hi to all :

This is my first blog entry . And I have only recently started my Research work (just 2 months) .So please bear with me my lack of thorough knowledge in the topic .

What I want to know is "what is the impact of the papers on Asynchronous Variational Integrators and Variational Integrators (published in 2003) ?" I mean what I was wondering is given that they have so many beneficial properties , how many researcher have actually started using this technique of time integration in their research .

Notes on Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics

Submitted by John W. Hutchinson on Sat, 01/27/2007 - 19:03

These are the notes I wrote at the Technical University of Denmark in 1979. Zhigang Suo and I will be using these in the course on fracture and thin film mechanics (ES 242r) this spring (2007). This is a joint course with the University of Nebraska.