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Call for Abstracts: Track 10-23 on “Mechanics of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials” at IMECE 2013(San Diego, Nov 15-21)

Submitted by Shuman_Xia on

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to Track 10-23 on “Mechanics of Electrochemical Energy Storage Materials” at the ASME IMECE 2013, to be held Nov. 15-21, 2013, in San Diego, CA.

3D phenomenological constitutive modeling of shape memory alloys based on microplane theory

Submitted by R.Mehrabi on

This paper is studied constitutive modeling of SMAs, that have some new features. Also some multiaxial loadings on SMAs are investigated experimentally.

NSF-PACAM Travel Scholarship to Attend PACAM 2013 at Houston

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

PACAM 2013 (Houston) has some limited funds which will
be used to provide partial support to participants from the USA.  The financial support is provided by the
National Science Foundation and the University of Houston. The primary targets
of the travel scholarships are graduate students, post-docs and early career
researchers e.g. assistant professors. The deadline for receipt of the completed
scholarship application is 21st
February, 2013
.

Postdoc Position in Chile (nonlinear elasticity, continuum mechanics)

Submitted by Roger Bustamante on

The Superior Councils for Science and Technological Development of Chile will

call on April for the FONDECYT Postdoctoral Grants Competition.







The available grants are for 2 or 3 years. The applicants must have obtained

their Doctorate degrees approximately between July of 2010 and the end of

September of 2013 (the exact dates will appear in the page of the agency later

on).

Unexpected two-phase lithiation of amorphous Si

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Two-phase electrochemical lithiation in amorphous silicon

Jiangwei Wang, Yu He, Feifei Fan, Xiao-Hua Liu, Shuman Xia, Yang Liu, Thomas Harris, Hong Li, Jian Yu Huang, Scott X. Mao, and Ting Zhu

Nano Letters, Publication Date (Web): January 16, 2013

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl304379k



In-situ TEM of two-phase lithiation of amorphous silicon nanospheres

Doctoral Engineering RA Position in Computational FEA and Rigid Body Modeling

Submitted by jfchessa on

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at
El Paso is seeking a highly motivated and experienced graduate student
as a paid research assistant (RA) in our new Ph.D. program in Biomedical
Engineering for the Fall of 2013 or sooner if key applicant is found.
Research will be conducted in the newly established musculoskeletal
biomechanics laboratory in our new Biomedical Engineering Building.



This
doctoral level RA will focus specifically on computational models of

Symposium on Li-ion batteries at the SES 50th annual meeting

Submitted by Kejie Zhao on

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider to attend the symposium entitled  "Lithium ion batteries - when chemistry meets mechanics"  at the occasion of the Joint Society of Engineering Science (SES) 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting, July 28-31, 2013, at Brown University.



The description of the symposium is attached below.

Phononics 2013

Submitted by mihussein on

We cordially invite you to participate in Phononics 2013: The Second International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Optomechanics – to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from June 2–7, 2013. The conference covers the following themes:

(1) phononic crystals, (2) acoustic metamaterials, (3) wave propagation in periodic structures, (4) nanoscale phonon transport, and (5) optomechanics.  

More information available at: www.phononics2013.org.