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Graduate Student Position in Solid Mechanics/Biomechanics
Please find all details about an open PhD position at KTH Solid Mechanics at http://www.hallf.kth.se/NYAJOBB/nyajobb_en.html
Dislocations 2008 International Conference
We are pleased to announce Dislocations 2008, an international conference on the fundamentals of plastic deformation and other physical phenomena where the dislocations play pivotal roles. The conference will take place on October 13-17, 2008 at the Gold Coast Hotel, Hong Kong, China. More information about the Dislocations 2008 conference can be found at the following web site:
Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Computational Fracture Mechanics in Liverpool University, UK (Re-post)
Please go to http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/research/R-566358.htm and follow the instructions to submit an application.
2008 Gordon Research Conference on Thin Film and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior
We are pleased to officially announce the
2008 Gordon Research Conference on Thin Film and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior
July 27 - August 1, 2008 at Colby College, Waterville Maine
Do I really belong here?
Greetings iMechanicans
I've been struggling with a optics project for almost 3 years. I say struggle because my lack of a formal physics education leaves an accurate hypothesis out of my reach. I understand solid-state physics, as well as electromagnetic wave theory from my 40+ years of experience and research in these fields.
I hope to spark the mind(s) of anyone who could possibly explain an optomagnetic anomaly that results from this simple Superparamagnetic event that I've created.
Should I leave and try to find the answer elsewhere?
Need help: Relation between polymer end-to-end distance and mechanical properties
Hi,
I found in polymer books and some literatures that mechanical properties of polymer improve with the increase of their radius of gyration or end-to-end distance for a fixed molecular weight. I, however, could not find any experimental evidence or any physical explanation.
It will be a great help to me if anyone refer me some literatures that explains the connection between these two parameters.
Thanks,
Ashfaq Adnan
Dear Dr, Another one has broken
It broke in the weekend when I was enjoying the footie on TV with a pack of crisps.
This isn't the first time a tooth filling has broken on me, but this one has got me worried, because I called my dentist today and found out that because he is moving premises, he is not open until the middle of next week.
Interaction Integral Method for bimaterial interface
I am Dhaneshwar Mishra, currently a PhD student at Ajou University, South Korea. I am working in the area of Bimaterial Fracture. Currently i am trying to calculate Stress Intensity factor of cracked bimaterial plate. I wanted to use Interaction Integral Method to seperate Complex stress intensity factor.
Will some one please through light on use of interaction Integral Method used for cracked bimaterial interfaces.
Hope to receive early suggestions.
Thank you.
With regards
Dhaneshwar Mishra
The efficiency of turbines
Hello students (and also others) at iMechanica,
Last weekend, while channel browsing on TV, I happened to notice a documentary on the Hoover dam (in the US). It showed a number of jets of water, huge ones, forcefully springing forth out of the rock faces just downstream of the dam. These were the water jets coming off the electricity generation plant of the dam, *after* their job of generating electricity was already over.