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Viscoelasticity and phase transition:)

Submitted by leonuniv on

Hi, does anyone know publications incorporating both linear viscoelasticity and phase transition? For example, both phase can be transferred to each other and each phase has its own relaxation function G(t). For arbitrary loading and temperature histories, at some special time the material experiences the phase transition. Thanks a lot:)

International Workshop on In Situ Electron Microscopy in Advanced Materials Research, held at Institute of Physics, Chinese Acad

Submitted by zwshan on

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of my co-organizers, Jianqi Li, Dapeng Yu, Xiaolei Xu and Lianmao Peng, we cordially invite you to attend the International Workshop on In Situ Electron Microscopy in Advanced Materials Research, held at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academic of Science on May 31 to June 2, 2008, in Beijing, China.

Is there any computing module which can compute a heap of disk elements in DEM(discrete element method)?

Submitted by xiashengxu on

Is there any computing module which can compute a heap of disk elements in DEM(discrete element method)?it'd be better if it is written in matlab or C/C++. I'm doing research on the combined DEM-FEM. I need such module so as to save my time.

Thank you 

Mechanics of microtubule buckling in living cells

Submitted by Teng Li on

As the most rigid cytoskeletal filaments, microtubules bear compressive forces in living cells, balancing the tensile forces within the cytoskeleton to maintain the cell shape. It is often observed that, in living cells, microtubules under compression severely buckle into short wavelengths. By contrast, when compressed, isolated microtubules in vitro buckle into single long-wavelength arcs. The critical buckling force of the microtubules in vitro is two orders of magnitude lower than that of the microtubules in living cells.

Program available for 7th IC Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials

Submitted by Dean Eastbury on

The full oral program for the 7th International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials is now available at http://www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com/index.htm. Join your peers by registering for this popular single-stream meeting held in Hyannis, MA, USA on beautiful Cape Cod, September 14-19, 2008.