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A Global Role of the iMechanica Is Emerging
The report about the iMechanica get-together with the McMat 2007 is definitely exciting, because we have found a community beyond the usual professional conferences we are familiar with. Besides, we may have more, if not less, common interests and languages through this coordinated and yet diversified group with thousands of members in different places of this world. It is indeed exciting to meet as friends you make from the Internet, except it is professionally:-)
Senior Applied Mechanics Engineer Job Opening at NAC International
NAC International, a privately owned, U.S. based global provider of solutions and nuclear transportation and design technology for the energy, environmental and electric utilities community, is currently seeking an experienced Senior Applied Mechanics Engineer to work in its corporate office in Norcross, GA. NAC specializes in strategic management, fuel cycle, information management and organizational improvement solutions for the energy, utility and technology communities.
Understanding the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
How grant reviews work
Some authors rights information and open access initiatives at Elsevier
Discrete Fractal Fracture Mechanics
This paper extends the recently developed theories of fracture
mechanics with finite growth (mainly the work of Pugno and Ruoff, 2004
on quantized fracture mechanics) to fractal cracks. One interesting
result is the prediction of crack roughening for fractal cracks.
Subra Suresh is named the next Dean of Engineering at MIT
Subra Suresh , the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is named the next dean of the School of Engineering, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more.
State-of-the-art understanding of cracking for porous materials?
It seems there are quite a few experimental studies [1,2] on the fracture properties of porous materials, like nanoporous low-k dielectrics, as a function of porosity. Can anyone point out some references on the theoretical part, like the available models, computational methods or analytical approaches that can capture microstructure information, including porosity, pore geometry etc. Interface delamination of porous materials is also of interest. Thanks.
Self-healing materials with microvascular networks
Kathleen S. Toohey, Nancy R. Sottos, Jennifer A. Lewis, Jeffrey S. Moore, and Scott R. White