All models are wrong, but some are useful. This famous saying mirrors the situation in cell mechanics as well. It looks like no particular model of the cell deformability can be unconditionally preferred over others and different models reveal different aspects of the mechanical behavior of living cells. The purpose of the present work is to discuss the so-called tensegrity models of the cell cytoskeleton. It seems that the role of the cytoskeleton in the overall mechanical response of the cell was not appreciated until Donald Ingber put a strong emphasis on it.

Materialise and Dassault Systemes Simulia Benelux are pleased to announce their co-organized Medical Engineering Seminar which will take place on 4 October 2011, at the Materialise HQ in Leuven, Belgium. The Medical Engineering Seminar is a meeting for and by users and aims to bring together biomechanical engineers currently working, or interested in patient-realistic finite element modeling.

It is pleasure to announce that there is an
opening for students who want to join a PhD course or combined master + PhD
course (Going to directly Ph.D. course without master thesis after B.S.) in
Department of Aerospace Engineering, GyeongsangNational University, South
Korea.

The successful candidate will do research
under the advise of Prof. Jin-Hwe Kweon in Structures and Composites Lab. Research areas include testing and finite element analysis of:

1. Composite Cylinder under hydrostatic
pressure,

Hello,

Im trying to simlate delamination in abaqus and after going through the documentation i decided to go for the cohesive element approac. In the documentation it is mentioned that we use a general contact(explicit) for the interation but when i do that i am unable to use general, static step. So which step do i go for if i i want to simulate a static delamination ?

I am looking for a post-doctoral fellow and two PhD students. The research projects are concerned with electromechanical performance of PZT actuators in hydrogen-based fuel injectors (PDF), modeling of fuel cell membrane durability (one PhD) and nanoscale mechanics (one PhD). Interested applicants are asked to send their CV and transcripts to: Dr. Nimal Rajapakse, Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.

Forthcoming papers of International Journal of Applied Mechanics (IJAM) Vol.3 No.4:

With deep sorrow we write to  convey the sad news that Hassan Aref has just passed away.  According to an email from Ishwar Puri, Head of the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, of Virginia Tech, Professor Hassan Aref went on an extended weekend visit to his home in Illinois on Thursday night.  He died there on Friday, sitting in his chair.

I am pursuing my phD in one of the universities in india in fracture mechanics. I have completed all the formalities of my university before submitting the final thesis report like completing the course work examinations and comprehensive vivavoce. My work is related to accurate stress intensity factor determination at the crack tip through FEA approach for a mixed mode crack propagation.I have taken a new methodology suggested in one of the old journal papers in FEM and I have used the formulae mentioned in that paper to extract the SIF results.

Can some of you recommend a source to learn about Discontinuous Galerkin FEM?? I am specifically interested in its application in geomechanics but I need to learn the basics first!

I gave a seminar at Xian Jiaotong University on 27 October 2009.  I recently found the video of the seminar online.  The seminar was in Chinese, but the slides were in English.

• Video of the seminar
• Slides of the seminar  

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