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Subra Suresh in line to be the Director of the National Science Foundation

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Subra Suresh, the Dean of Engineering, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is in line to become the next Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), according to this post at Science.

The NSF director must be confirmed by the Senate, although it would be unusual for a nominee to attract any opposition.

Today is Pi day and Einstein's birthday, again!

Submitted by Pi-Gang Luan on

Google's logo is very cute today !  

Today is defined as Pi day, it is also Albert Einstein's birthday. Besides, today is Japaness lover's "white day".

According to Wiki, "In the 1980s the Japanese National Confectionery Industry Association launched a successful campaign to make March 14 a "reply day", where men are expected to return the favour to those who gave them chocolates on Valentine's Day, calling it White Day for the color of the chocolates being offered."

Lecturer positions at the Univ. of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. Joint Institute

Submitted by Robert G. Parker on

The University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have established a Joint Institute in Shanghai committed to building a world-class academic institution with educational and research missions. The UM-SJTU Joint Institute invites applications for lecturers to support its mechanical and electrical/computer engineering programs. With its unique academic mission in China, the JI offers an extraordinary academic environment. The JI is modeled on world-class US universities. The students are among China’s best.



Faculty positions (Asst, Assoc, and Prof) at the Univ. of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. Joint Institute

Submitted by Robert G. Parker on

The University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have established a Joint Institute in Shanghai with a commitment to build a world-class academic research and educational institution. The UM-SJTU Joint Institute invites applications for tenure-track (Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor) positions in all emerging fields of mechanical engineering and related disciplines. These positions are open to top caliber applicants from around the world.

Paper by Ellad Tadmor & Nikhil Admal---Atomistic Definition of Stress

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

For both mechanicians and physicists, linking continuum concepts to the underlying microscopic characteristics of materials has remained a major preoccupation. Certainly, with the recent advent of the so-called "multiscale" modeling approaches, this topic has been brought to a sharp focus. Cauchy stress is one such continuum concept that has courted a fair amount of controversy.

Maxwell stress of a dielectric elastomer subjected to electric field

Submitted by Lianhua Ma on

 

Hello everyone,

As reported in some references, Maxwell stress of a dielectric  elastomer subjected to electric field can be determined by the following formula

P=e*E^2    (1) -------e=e0*e1, e0 is the dielectric permittivity of vacuum, e1 is the relative dielectric permittivity of the elastomer, and E is the applied electric field.