One PhD position is available immediately in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Clarkson University, NY, US.  The research program focuses on the mechanical behaviors of advanced materials including polymer microstructures, composites, nanomaterials, and biological materials. Interdisciplinary collaborations are possible. The candidates with background and interest in engineering mechanics, solid mechanics, and materials science are highly encouraged to apply.

If you are interested, please contact Dr. Wang at lifwang@clarkson.edu (http://www.clarkson.edu/cee/faculty/wang.html). 

A few points that might be of general interest:

1. The dates: The date of Huygens' first written down material, which was orally presented to the French Academy of Sciences, is 1678---in contrast to the oft-quoted date of 1690. 1690 was the year of the first, French, publication of these notes (plus other material) in the form of a book.

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The Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Ningbo University, China, has multiple openings in Solid Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics for experienced and junior applicants.

The Department has been supported by Zhejiang Province under Center for Excellence program for broad subjects related to Engineering Mechanics research and education.  We also have special funds for the enhancement of the Fluid Mechanics program.

More details on the current research and education program  of the Department can be found at http://mech.nbu.edu.cn.

Applicants and inquiries should be addressed to 

Hello everyone

I have a material with a compression modulus and tensile modulus along with Poisson's ratio. Are compression modulus and tensile modulus related to the Lame` constants? Or does this material fall under 'cubic symmetry' which needs three elastic constants? In that case, how are they related to the elastic coefficients (C12, C44 or C11)?

I need to incorporate these material properties in ABAQUS. How do I model this material in ABAQUS?

Any lead on this problem is appreciated. Thanks a lot.

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Nikhil

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The webinar's contents and screenshots are available at http://www.softinway.com/education/webinar.asp

 
 
I came across a wonderful site a couple of weeks ago. nb.femhub.com

FEMhub is still at its beginning stage, but it can already do lots of interesting stuff. For someone like me who teaches numerical/computer methods in engineering at a developing country where computing is costly, tools like FEMhub are very much welcome.  

 
 More about FEMhub on my website. Try out the example worksheets and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. 

dear Friend

I am comparing italian universities with Russian ones with US and with Cuban ones. Then I need some figures.

I have been able for example to find that there are about 50% of students-workers in Russia, what about US?
I mean full time workers, not just part time.

But I need to know more about these questions:-
1) how did the number of students in the last 10 years vary?  Increased?
2) how many students are doing economics or management - related subjects?
3) how many students exit the university system before graduation,
failing to complete the cycle?
4) how many students complete the cycle in retard?

Hi all

 Many moons ago I studied Engineering at the University of Bath, and obviously studied mechanics as part of that, though I was never any good at it - witness the fact that I am a large scale IT systems architect now!  For various reasons associated with a personal project, I now need to dust off my less that perfect mechanics abilities to be able to do some basic calculations.  For instance, the first "system" I need to calculate around is basically two bell cranks connected by a long (very long!) rod.  Could anyone point me at a good entry level text that would let me get back up to speed with basic mechanics?  Prefereably one I can buy second hand from eBay or the like.

Thanks in advance

Stephen

I am attaching a brief overview of electronic structure theories (ab-initio theories) with emphasis on the various approximations that form a basis for these theories. It also contains references that provide a comprehensive introduction to the field.

Giving presentations at conferences or seminar series is a vital part of a researcher's professional life.  Listening to others' presentations is also one of the best ways to stay current with the frontier of a research field. While the audience in conference/seminar room is often limited, a presentation posted online can be virtually viewed by any interested audience. At iMechanica, users have started to post their presentation slides, quite often as the attachments of a post briefing the presentation.  Such a way is simple and effective, but may not be the best way for everyone for the following reasons:

The lecture notes of the two courses I taught at Stanford University during the last two quarters, "ME 340 Elasticity" and "ME 334 Introduction to Statistical Mechanics", are available in PDF format online at:

  http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me340/

  http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me334/

Perhaps it could be useful to you.

The criteria of Cermelli and Gurtin (2001, J. Mech. Phys. Solids) for choosing a geometric dislocation tensor in finite plasticity are reconsidered. It is shown that physically reasonable alternate criteria could just as well be put forward to select other measures; overall, the emphasis should be on the connections between various physically meaningful measures as is customary in continuum mechanics and geometry, rather than on criteria to select one or another specific measure.

One of the things that I've thought about often in relation to mechanics is:

 1)  There's a paucity of heroes. Growing up, my heroes were not mechanicians. Certainly not any of the mechanicians in the last 100-150 years. Physics has it's heroes: Feynman, Hawking, Einstein, Wheeler, Bardeen, Oppenheimer etc. etc.

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.

ES 240 notes for Bending of plates is attached.

This problem set is due Monday, Nov.26, 2007.

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Part 2 of Plane Elasticity notes. Please see attached.

This Problem Set is due on Friday, Oct. 26. 

Recently, Prof. Suo and several of us students have been discussing the possibility of increasing student presence and activity on iMechanica . With this in mind, two of us: Mahdi Kazemzadeh and I, have identified three important issues we would like to get your thoughts on. Please comment and let us know what you think, even if you are not a student. Also, if you wish to add any more issues you think we should look at, please post your thoughts in this regard as well.

This has reference to (only) the *last paragraph* in Prof. Harry Lewis' recent post, found at: http://www.imechanica.org/node/1423#comment-2880.

The reason I write the present post is because I always seem to have had a view of inventing, learning, or teaching mathematics that is remarkably at odds with what Prof. Lewis' last paragraph *seems* to imply.

This is a winning entry in the Sci/Terp Video Competition at University of Maryland (UMD).

JOM is a monthly publication of TMS--The minerals, metals, and materials society. It covers a wide range of materials topics. I expecially like the overview articles, which, in four or five pages pack lots of information. Further, the historical articles about metallurgy and materials in ancient civilizations will interest those of you who like to read about history in general, and science history, in particular.