In the notes on the general theory of finite deformation, we have left the free energy function unspecified. The notes here describe free energy function commonly used to describe the elasticity of rubber-like materials. These notes are part of a course on advanced elasticity
It gives me great pleasure to announce the outcome of the inaugural competition for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. This award, created in 2012, will be annually given to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. The selection committee consisted of: K. Ravi-chandar (UT Austin), Huajian Gao (Brown University), Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech), Roger Fosdick (Minnesota University), and Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University).
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The deadline for submission of abstracts for the EMI 2013 conference has been extended to February 17, 2013. For details on the conference to be held on August 4-7, 2013 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, visit http://www.emi2013.northwestern.edu/ .
Baker Hughes has an opportunity for summer internship in the area of drilling mechanics and dynamics at Woodlands Technology Center, The Woodlands, Texas. The position is open to candidates in MS or PhD program in Mechanical/Civil/Aerospace/Mining engineering, Materials Science or relevant disciplines at a US University
M.T. Hoang, J. Yvonnet, A. Mitrushchenkov, G. Chambaud, First-principles based multiscale model of piezoelectric nanowires with surface effecs, Journal of Applied Physics, 113(1):014309, 2013
http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/japiau/v113/i1/p014309_s1
Post-print :
http://hal-univ-mlv.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/77/09/98/PDF/_39_Pre_P…
These notes are part of a course on advanced elasticity. The notes recall several phenomena where both elasticity and surface energy are significant, including
The notes also contain a formulation of combined surface energy and elasticity of finite deformation.
Compatibility equations of elasticity are almost 150 years old. Interestingly they do not seem to have been rigorously studied for non-simply-connected bodies to this date. In this paper we derive necessary and sufficient compatibility equations of nonlinear elasticity for arbitrary non-simply-connected bodies when the ambient space is Euclidean. For a non-simply-connected body, a measure of strain may not be compatible even if the standard compatibility equations ("bulk" compatibility equations) are satisfied.
