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Discussion of fracture paper #9 - Crack tip modelling

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Dear Reader, 

I recently took over as the ESIS blog editor. Being the second in this baton relay, I will do my best to live up to the good reader expectations that have been established by my precursor, who is also one of the instigators of the blog, Wolfgang Brocks. 

Request for abstracts to: PACAM-XV mini-symposium on "The Current and Future Role of Mechanics in Atomistic Science"

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As part of the Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM) being held in UIUC (May 18-21, 2015) by Oscar Lopez-Pamies and Martin Idiart, I am organizing a session on "The Current and Future Role of Mechanics in Atomistic Science".

Yield stress fluid flows

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A Virtual Special Issue of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics devoted to yield stress fluid flows has just been released. With this first Virtual Special Issue of the journal we inaugurate a practice, which we plan to make regular, of highlighting developments on a particular subject of relevance in order to guide and encourage research in the field.

Faculty Position in Mechanical Engineering at University of Chile

Submitted by Alejandro Orti… on

Dear all,

In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, at University of Chile, we are seeking to fill a faculty position with an exceptional researcher in areas related to Mechanical Engineering. The official call is expected to appear by March 2015. 

Postdoctoral position in molecular mechanics at U Minnesota

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<p>A postdoctoral position is available in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. The computational project aims to provide a fundamental understanding of water and solute transport across polymer films, and of the interaction of biomolecules with polymeric aqueous interfaces.