Salary scale: Junior Lecturer/Lecturer (highest entry point 2 on Lecturer scale)

• Lecturer: €52,112 - €85,531 p.a. (approx. $82,017 - $134,623)
• Junior Lecturer: €42,978 - €53,761 p.a. (approx. $67,652 - $84,612)
• Maximum starting point at Lecturer scale: €61,696 (approx. $97,107)

Appointment: From date of appointment to September 2012, otherwise 4 years.

Closing date: The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 5th September 2008.

Professor Ed Berger, Univeristy of Virginia Mechanical Engineering, is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education for his use of web technologies and, in particular, "video solutions" for teaching undergraduate mechanics courses. See http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i34/era01301.htm.  Or contact Berger at berger@virginia.edu.  Ed hasn't used this approach for all undergraduate mechanics courses as yet, but the potential is there. 

PhD Position: Solid Mechanics/Biomechanics at KTH-Stockholm

A four to five-year PhD position focusing on the analysis of multi-scale phenomena in diseased blood vessels including atherosclerotic plaques has recently been opened at KTH Solid Mechanics. The position is fully supported by the Swedish Research Council.

I am delighted to announce on behalf of Elsevier that Professor Michael Ortiz of CalTech has won the very first Rodney Hill Prize in Solid mechanics in reconition of his body of research during the decade 1998-2007. The prize will be presented at ICTAM in Adelaide on 27 August by Y.S. Chi, Vice Chairman of Elsevier immediately prior to Michael's Hill Prize lecture. For more details please see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P10.cws_home/hillprizewinner

Dean Eastbury

Publisher

Elsevier, UK  

I am pleased to announce that Volume 1, Number 2 of the the recently-launched Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (www.elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm) has been published by Elsevier. All JMBBM articles can be accessed free-of-charge on ScienceDirect until September 2008 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17516161).

FACULTY POSITION
 
 
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
 
 

Here is a Lectureship in Solid Mechanics available in the Engineering Science Department at Oxford posted by Prof.Alan Cocks.

We currently have a University Lectureship in Solid Mechanics available in the Engineering Science Department at Oxford.  I have attached a copy of the advert and further particulars. I would be grateful if you could pass this information on to anybody who you think would be interested in this post.  We would welcome applications from candidates with significant potential for research in solid mechanics and are particularly interested in strengthening our activity in the area of high strain rate mechanics.

Attached is a PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation from our final project, titled "Viscous Deformation of a Quartz Tube Caused by Furnace Malfunction:  Analysis and Modeling".

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We find a way of constructing special inclusions by solving variational inequalities. As a side result, the Eshelby conjectures, which asserts that uniform eigenstress induces uniform elastic strain if and only if the inclusion is an ellipsoid, are solved. In a periodic setting, we can construct optimal ordered structures in the sense of attaining the Hashin-Shtrikman bounds. These works have been submitted and preprints are available at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~liulp/. Examples of multiply-connected inclusion with Eshelby uniformity property are shown below, see the papers for more examples and description of numerical schemes.

Professor Y. C. Fung, Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, is the recipient of the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize of 2007.

The Russ Prize is presented biannually to an outstanding candidate in the field of bioengineering who has made significant contributions to improving the human condition through research, development, teaching, or management. The recipient receives a $500,000 cash award and an engraved gold medallion.

This is the last problem set this semester. It is due on Friday, Dec. 14, 2007.

See attachment for ES 240 lecture notes on plasticity.

Lei and I will be working on developing the appropriate relations and numerical methods for topological optimization of  2D ideal structures.  In this constraint-based optimization study we will try to determine the density distribution which minimizes the strain energy for a fixed volume of material.  This problem is a subset of the so-called "G-closure" problem in topological optimization where we have restricted our possible configurations to certain ideal geometries.   

Andrew and I decided to work on some design topics.

Given a reference domain, some boundary conditions and a limited amount of material, which can not fill the whole domain, we want to determine the material distribution inside the domain so that the structure generated will contain the minimum elastic energy. This is called minimum compliance problem, a topic in the field of topology optimization.

Our initial goal is to implement the numerical methods in this field to the interesting examples offered in our class, such as the wall cylinder and the plate under distributed pressure, and then analyse the computational results. If time permits, we will consider other optimization objects beside the elastic energy.
 

Nathan Thielen and I will be investigating straight beams, bent beams and how the analysis can be applied to hooks. We did not have much time to investigate beams in ES240 this term so we hope to gain a broader understanding of this area and share our findings with the rest of the class. The primary goal is to compare the analysis necessary for straight beams versus the analysis needed for bent beams. We choose the project because we also will have ample opportunity to investigate bent beams and hooks using FEM. If time permits we will investigate how the cross-section of hooks effects its properties.

Christian and I thought comparing the theory of bent beams to that of straight beams would be interesting because we only explored straight beams this semester in class. Bent beams are important since they are encountered regularly in practice, for example a hook. The geometry of a bent beam changes the equations governing the behavior. So, understanding how the geometry changes the beams behavior is our primary interest.

My project will be a literature study on ferroelasticity and how it applied to how of the topics we covered in class.

Eric Kiser 

Stress/Strain Analysis of Bullet-Holeson the Boeing 737 Fuselage Boeing 737 is the most popular aircraft in the sky today, with each one taking off or landing on average of every 6 seconds.