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A postdoctoral position available at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in computational mechanics and/or multiphysics modelling in relevant areas, for example, soft matter, cell in microfluidics, numerical methods, micromechanics or others.

Please drop your CV to lihua [at] ntu.edu.sg (lihua[at]ntu[dot]edu[dot]sg), if you are interested in it. Thank you.

could someone tell me some equation to get the critical stress for delamination in multilayers?

Thanks,

Are m and C in the paris law equation dependant on the material property or geometry?

For example if using the same material with different thickness, do the C and m values change? For clarity assume centre notched plates, with different plate thicknesses but same material (steel or aluminium).

I appreciate your time.

Written by Kent McDill

posted in Illinois, Northwestern, LiveBIG (Big Ten Network July 20, 2014)

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 In spite of worldwide research, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) still have not fully realized their

 original promise as ideal reinforcements for composite materials due to a number of

 challenging issues such as weak interface, poor dispersion, misalignment and lack of optimized

 design. Here we propose a bio-inspired structure of CNT bundles with controllable

 crosslink density and staggered pattern of organization that mimic the architecture of

 Biological materials in nature serve as a valuable source of inspiration for developing

 novel synthetic materials with extraordinary properties or functions. Much effort to date

 has been directed toward fabricating and understanding bio-inspired nanocomposites

 with internal architectures mimicking those of nacre and collagen fibril. Here we establish

 simple and explicit analytical solutions for both upper and lower bounds of the elastic

Thomson Reuters has released a new list of highly cited researchers for 2002-2012. You can find more at http://highlycited.com/index.htm#table 

The following solid mechanicians have been selected in the category of engineering, materials science, or computer science.

Satya Atluri (UC Irvine);

Yuri Bazilevs (UCSD);

Ted Belytschko (Northwestern University);

Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University);

Tom Hughes (University of Texas at Austin);

One can now run GEBT (Geometrically Exact Beam Theory), a general-purpose nonlinear composite beam solver, online within a web browser through cdmHUB.org. Users do not have to install the code on their own machine. And users can access to immediate support if run into any questions. You are welcome to try out the code and let me know any of your questions.