Please note the website and bookings page for the 2nd Investing in Alternative Energy event 1 February 2008, IMechE can be found at:

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What is the relationship between hardness and elastic modulus? The higher hardness, the higher elastic modulus?  My understanding is that hardness is a local mechanical property, and 
elastic modulus is an averaged global mechanical property.  Am I right about this? 

As a courtesy to mechanical professionals and academics at large, I would like to inform you about the current free access period to mechanical research including the following journals:

Journal of Damage Mechanics

Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids

From now until November 30, 2007, you can access any materials science, mechanics or engineering journals online (from volume 1, issue 1 to current) free of charge!

The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the biennial Engineering Failure Analysis series (www.icefa.elsevier.com) is 30 November 2007.

The conference will take place in the coastal town of Sitges, just a short distance from Barcelona's international airport, from 13 to 16 July 2008.    

The Disease Biophysics Group in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has a postdoctoral fellowship available for PhD/DSc scientists with backgrounds in cellular biomechanics.  The applicants should have training in cell tissue culture, microscopy, and assays for probing the mechanical properties of cells, such as traction force microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and/or the use of magnetic tweezers.

 Applicants should forward their CV (pdf) and examples of up to three manuscripts (pdf). Please have three references emailed to Professor Parker directly.

We are no longer accepting applications for these positions.  Qualified applicants will be contacted in the near future.  

Thank you for your interest,

 Robert Gracie 

The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the biennial Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials series (www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com) is 28 November 2007.

The conference will take place will take place in Hyannis, MA, USA, 14-19 September 2008. Hyannis is located on the beautiful Cape Cod peninsula just 90 minutes from Boston's Logan International Airport and T.F.Green Airport in Providence.   

For a nanosystem,the total number of atoms(say less than 100),I want to knom In such a system the second law of thermodynamics is still effective ?