Mechanics Symposium in Beijing 2007
Some of you may be interested in attending this conference, and the post-conference tour. Details are described in the two attached files.
Symposium on Nanoscale, Biological, Cellular and Nonlinear Materials at the 2007 IMECE
The 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition
November 11-16, 2007, Seattle, Washington, Sponsored by the Composites and Elasticity Committees, Applied Mechanics Division
Track 18-7 Nanoscale, Biological, Cellular and Nonlinear Materials
Adaptation of arteries to pressure changes
Arteries are living organs that can remodel themself in response to stress changes. Arterial remodeling is a big topic and this paper shows only a tip of the iceberg.
Modeling Surface Stress Effects on Nanomaterials
We present a surface Cauchy-Born approach to modeling FCC metals with nanometer scale dimensions for which surface stresses contribute significantly to the overall mechanical response. The model is based on an extension of the traditional Cauchy-Born theory in which a surface energy term that is obtained from the underlying crystal structure and governing interatomic potential is used to augment the bulk energy.
2007 VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES
If you understand the power of visual communication to explain, explore, and extend our knowledge of the world around us, then you are invited to enter the 2007 Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Entry deadline: 31 May 2007.
Faculty Position of Structures/ Mechanics/Materials at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is seeking candidates to fill a tenure-track faculty position commencing Fall 2007. Appointment at the assistant professor level is anticipated but higher ranks will be considered for truly outstanding candidates. The successful candidate will have research and teaching expertise in structures with a research focus in one or more of the following areas: structural health monitoring, systems-scale failure analysis, dynamic control, computational mechanics and micromechanics, advanced materials (e.g., n
Engineering Sciences 241: Advanced Elasticity
This is a second graduate course in solid mechanics, and explores coupled mechanical, thermal, electrical, and chemical actions. The course draws heavily upon phenomena in soft materials.
This page is updated for ES 241 taught in Spring 2020 (Maxwell Dworkin 221, T/Th 1:30pm-2:45pm)
The course taught in the past:
Blood Clot Mechanics at the Molecular Level
Cross-posted to Biocurious a blog about biology through the eyes of physicists.
Introductory Biomechanics Courses
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In the early days of biomechanics, there probably were not many dedicated biomechanics courses and instead a regular mechanics curriculum was studied by people interested in tissues and biosystems. However, now that there are so many dedicated bioengineering programs at Universities throughout the world, it seems as though it is more likely that much of students' basic mechanics knowledge comes through dedicated biomechanics courses. This then in turn raises the interesting question of what is taught in these courses?
Phase field simulations of polarization switching-induced toughening in ferroelectric ceramics
Polarization switching-induced shielding or anti-shielding of an electrically permeable crack in a mono-domain ferroelectric material with the original polarization direction perpendicular to the crack is simulated by a phase field model based on the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation. The domain wall energy and the long-range mechanical and electrical interactions between polarizations are taken into account. The phase field simulations exhibit a wing-shape- switched zone backwards the crack tip.