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Lectures on Soft Active Materials, 3rd edition

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

At the invitation of Yonggang Huang, I’ll give 4-hour lectures at the NSF Summer Institute Course on the Mechanics of Soft Materials.   I attach the slides of the lectures, to be given on Monday, 10 May 2010.  An abstract of the lectures follows.

Calculate bimaterial H-matrix for orthotropic material.

Submitted by BrianBak on
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Hi

I have a question regarding calculating the B-matrix which is used to create the bimaterial H-matrix in the article: "Singularities, Interfaces and Cracks in Dissimilar Anisotropic Media" by Zhigang Suo, 1989. 

The shape of the Eiffel Tower

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

I've got interested, since I am going with about 10 of my students to Paris for the Euromech conference I am coorganizing in July, by the design of the Eiffel Tower.  Eiffel was a great engineer, and indeed his shape of the tower apparently comes from his ingenious idea of  balancing weigth and wind pressure so that there is little need of foundations.  WIKIPEDIA has an account of this design idea, and the resulting integro-differential equation.

Travel Support for US Participants to the Summer School on Fracture 2010

Submitted by Ravi-Chandar on

A Summer School on Fracture will be held at the Institue d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse, during June 7 – 19, 2010. You can find detailed information about the school, the topics covered, lecturers, accommodation, travel, etc at the following websites: http://www.ae.utexas.edu/SummerSchoolFracture/, http://www.iesc.univ-corse.fr/spip.php?rubrique143/