Truss Me! It’s great for learning
In a large "Mechanics of Materials" class at ETH Zurich, I incorporated an educational game, Truss Me!, into the class. It showed the potential gaming apps have in enhancing traditional teaching of mechanics.
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Job - Computational Scientist in Structural Mechanics & Industrial Applications
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Getting ready for Extreme Mechanics Letters
We are launching a new journal, Extreme Mechanics Letters. EML will publish letter-sized papers. We aim to achieve rapid communication. Our goal is to have the accepted papers published within 6-8 weeks upon submission. We aim to build a home at the frontier of engineering, medicine, science and entertainment, where advances are rapid and mechanics matters. We seek papers from researchers in all disciplines.
We will start to review submissions on 1 October 2014, and publish first papers by 1 December 2014. The beginning issues will be freely accessible online, and printed copies will be distributed at conferences.
We love to publish your extremely new ideas on extremely useful and extremely interesting mechanics. Please submit your papers soon.
Associate professor position available at Politecnico di Milano
A position of associate professor is available for foreign scientists at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy). Details can be found at: http://www.AcademicKeys.com/r?job=57802
USNCTAM Perspectives on Mechanics in Medicine
Dear Colleagues.
I would like to share with you a perspective article on mechanics in medicine
by a commission from US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied
Mechanics ( online):
Help compile list of available micromechanics codes
Computer simulations will be used more and more for composites design and manufacturing. Before an engineer can simulate, there are at least two questions: what are the tools available and which one works for my problem. Thus, as a start, cdmHUB plan to compile a list of micromechanics codes for the community, including commercial codes, public domain codes, or research codes. To make the list as complete as possible, we need your help.
Electrets in soft materials...
This work---whose abstract appears below, has been accepted for publication in Phy. Rev. E: http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.012603
Geostatic procedure for partially saturated soil
Dear collegues,
I do geostatic procedure for partially saturated soil.
ABAQUS is used.
The model of soil - Cam-Clay.
Initial stresses in the soil are given.
The initial pore pressure as well set.
Material data is fully specified.
Nevertheless - the program displays an error message:
The sum of initial pressue and elastic tensile strength for the porous elastic material in element 1 instance full-1 must be positive.
May be somybody knows the reason of the message?
Post-doc position on computational mechanics at IMT Lucca
A new post-doc position (1 year renewable up to 3 years, till the end of the ERC Starting Grant Project CA2PVM, http://musam.imtlucca.it/CA2PVM.html ) is open in the Research Unit MUSAM - Multi-scale Analysis of Materials ( http://musam.imtlucca.it ) directed by Prof.