Preprint on the multiplicative decomposition used in models of biological growth
Announcing a preprint available at <http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7174>:
An Energy-Deformation Decomposition for Morphoelasticity
Isaac Vikram Chenchiah, Patrick D. Shipman
biomechanics
Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D) Position at the University of Alabama
There is an immediate opening for a graduate research assistant for the coming Spring 2013 semester (or starting immediately as the case may be) with Dr. Unnikrishnan, in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at The University of Alabama. (http://aem.eng.ua.edu/)
Multiscale Modeling of Heterogeneous Materials - Post-Doc position in Pilsen
The Post-Doc position is open for 2013-2014 (2 years) at the
Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia in
Pilsen, Czech republic. Details to be announced at the end of September 2012.
Post doc position
I have a postdoc position in the dept. of MAE in UCSD, starting from Feb. 2013.
The research will be on the mechanics of soft materials and biomaterials, the design and fabrication of soft active structures and
mechanics of energy materials.
People with experimental background on experimental mechanics, materials fabrication and bioengineering is perferred.
Three PhD studentships (Computational Mechanics in Bioengineering) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
The Computational Bioengineering Group in the School of EPS at Heriot-watt University, UK has three PhD studentships available.
*Please check following details before apply as they have different values and application procedures as well as closing dates.
*Please indicate which studentship you are interested in when making the informal enquiry to Dr Yuhang Chen (y.chen [at] hw.ac.uk)
Faculty Position (Permanent) at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia
Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor (A182-12MY) position at the Australian National University (ANU)
Term of Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 15 July, 2012
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine VII: a MICCAI 2012 satellite workshop (Nice, October 01). Submission Deadline: 22 June
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine VII: a MICCAI 2012 satellite
workshop (paper submission deadline extended till 22 June 2012)
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Call for papers
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine (http://school.mech.uwa.edu.au/CBM2012/,
CMBBE 2013 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah
SAVE THESE DATES! April 3-7, 2013
The 2013 Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
conference will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 3-7.
Abstract submission deadline: December 14, 2012
Registration deadline: February 17, 2013
Hotel reservation cutoff date: March 1, 2013
Due date for 6-page conference paper: March 15, 2013
Conference Chair:
Jeffrey A. Weiss, Ph.D.
Departments of Bioengineering and Orthopedics,
FEBio 1.5 Release
We are excited to announce the arrival of version 1.5 of FEBio (Finite Elements for Biomechanics). This new version can be downloaded at http://mrl.sci.utah.edu/software/febio. FEBio is an open-source finite element package, specifically designed for solving problems in the field of computational biomechanics. This new version includes some major changes and contains a number of new and exciting features. Some of the noteworthy changes and additions are listed below.