The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the George Washington University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor starting fall semester 2015. The primary field of interest is mechanics of geomechanical and structural systems. Applications from women and under-represented minority groups are strongly encouraged. 

The attached notes are written for a course on plasticity.  I will update new posts on my twitter account:  https://twitter.com/zhigangsuo.  

Hi all,

We've recently published a paper on

Micromechanical Study of the Interface Properties in Concrete Repair Systems

It deals with nanoindentation and numerical simulation of the interface zone in concrete repair systems.

Greetings

http://hdl.handle.net/10993/12316

The attached notes are written for a course on plasticity.  I will update new posts on my twitter account:  https://twitter.com/zhigangsuo.  Rheology is the science of deformation. This science poses a question for every material: given a history of stress, how do we find the history of strain?

http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/17878

http://hdl.handle.net/10993/17878

ICAME 2015: Call for Papers, due 30 November 2014

26 – 27 August 2015, Patra Jasa Bali Resort & Villas, Indonesia

click on:

http://www.icame2015.org/

http://www.bali-indonesia.com/attractions/

Conference Organiser:

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Open Post Doctoral Position in Biomechanics for 2 years, fully employed, at the Institute of Biomechanics in Graz, Austria.

For more details please see the attachment.

3D computational model of graphene reinforced polymer composites is developed and applied to the analysis of damage and fracture mechanisms in the composites. The graphene/polymer interface properties are determined using the inverse modeling approach. The effect of composite structure, in particular, of the aspect ratio, shape, clustering, orientation and volume fraction of graphene platelets on the
mechanical behavior and damage mechanisms of nanocomposites are studied in computational experiments.

We've recently published an open access journal paper that looks at the mechanics of sutures used to repair severed tendons. A homogenization strategy is used to derive effective elastic properties for tendon fibrils and intracellular matrix. We have found that regions of high stress correlate with the regions of cell death (necrosis) that are sometimes observed in patients.

If this is of interest, please feel free to view the paper here.