mechanics
10% "early bird" discount off full registration fee for 2nd IC Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues - offer closes 26 October!
Elsevier is offering a 10% discount off the full registration fee for the 2nd International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues (www.icmobt.elsevier.com). This offer will end on 26 October 2007.
I hope you are able to come to Kaua'i and take part in this exciting and well-received conference.
Dean Eastbury
Publisher, Elsevier
Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation and Computation
Invitation to join the Google group Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation and Computation
A book on mechanics that would pique your curiosity
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I am happy to recommend the following book for your general reading.
Ranganath, G.S., ``Mysterious Motions and other Intriguing Phenomena in Physics," Hyderabad, India: Universities Press (2001)
Some write-ups in mechanics
My googling today brought me to this treasure trove of write-ups in mechanics:
This site contains informal (usually rough draft) technical notes and tutorials on topics in mechanics. The sophistication is at the first or second year graduate level. These write-ups include:
New graduate mechanics course at MIT: Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials
16.223 Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials
Course Description: Mechanical behavior of heterogeneous materials such as thin-film microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) materials and advanced filamentary composites, with particular emphasis on laminated structural configurations. Anisotropic and crystallographic elasticity formulations. Structure, properties and mechanics of constituents such as films, substrates, active materials, fibers, and matrices including nano- and micro-scale constituents. Effective properties from constituent properties. Classical laminated plate theory for modeling structural behavior including extrinsic and intrinsic strains and stresses such as environmental effects. Introduction to buckling of plates and nonlinear (deformations) plate theory. Other issues in modeling heterogeneous materials such as fracture/failure of laminated structures.