Are you curious to learn more about FEA or CFD simulations on patient-specific data? Then Materialise and ANSYS would like to invite you to their upcoming free seminar on “Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications”, where you will learn how numerical solutions can help the Biomedical and Healthcare industry in the development of innovative solutions.



Practical Info

- Date: Friday, November 20th, 2009.

- Cost: FREE!

- Location: Leuven (Belgium), Materialise HQ office

The following message is from Dr. Frans Spaepen at Harvard University:

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics 



Email: martin.chiang [at] nist.gov 

Homepage: http://www.nist.gov/msel/polymers/biomaterials/martin_chiang.cfm

Research area: Biomechanics 

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The effects of boron doping and boron grafts on the mechanical behaviour of armchair (6, 6)

and zigzag (10, 0) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under axial loading are

investigated using the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method. The results show that

Young’s moduli, the tension strength, the buckling loads and the buckling strains of SWCNTs

decrease after functionalization. The influences of the distribution density of functionalization

on Young’s moduli of SWCNTs are also systematically studied. The results show that Young’s

Internship Announcement  

Title : FEA of Elastomers

Category: Internship in Industry

Employer: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Location: Sugar Land, TX, USA

Starting Date: 01/01/2010

We recently find that embryonic stem cells are very sensitive to a local cyclic stress applied to the focal adhesion.  They spread and differentiate (Oct3/4 downregulation) in response to this local force.

DEPARTMENT CHAIR POSITION

Mechanical Engineering

University of South Florida

How many iMechanica users are on Twitter?  And how many are on Twitter with professional contacts? 

 I started to use Twitter about 4 months ago in a completely social, non-professional context.  As a personal (expat-focussed) blogger, I started to notice that I was
catching blog posts in my Twitter feed before I would see them in my
feed aggregator (Bloglines).   Twitter has emerged as a different sort
of feed aggregator, as well as a provider of information.