When I learned chemistry in college, the subject was presented to me with equations of chemical reactions.  It took me some time to realize a couple of simple points:  reactants need to meet to produce a product, and compounds take space.

The connection between chemistry and mechanics is made vivid to me in recent years in studying lithium batteries.  As an example, here is a recent paper when chemistry is linked with plasticity, mass transport, and fracture—essential ingredients of solid mechanics.

This is an interesting article: Fraud, the h-index and Pasternak. How do we evaluate ourselves and others, especially those not in our own fields? We may not have to find an answer as an individual researcher, but the univeristy adminstrators have to.

Hi,

I managed to find a way to debug UMAT step by step. I tested it on ABAQUS 6.9 using intel fortran 11.0 which is integrated with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 running on Win 7/x64. The process is the same for other versions and other user subroutines (The same process should also work in linux, but with different debugger).

The BioManufacturing and Vascular Device Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh seeks a dedicated Graduate Student Researcher, interested in developing novel manufacturing processes and realizing advanced biomedical devices (http://www.pitt.edu/~yjchun/home.html). 

Novel use of nonlinear microscopy and image-based modelling to determine the relationship between structure and function in small arteries and veins in health and diabetes.



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Simpleware (http://www.simpleware.com) is looking for a software programmer in a Research and Development role to develop novel image based mesh generation tools under the auspices of an EU Framework 7 Initial Training Network (ITN). You will be working closely with the Managing Director and the software development team. The position is open to nationals of any country except UK citizens or those that have been resident in the UK for more than 12 months in the last 3 years.

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A 24 Month Post Doctoral position is available at The University of Exeter (www.exeter.ac.uk) for a software developer in a Research and Development role to develop image processing tools under the auspices of an EPSRC grant. This is a joint project with TU Delft and De Montfort University. The work at Exeter will be in close collaboration with software company Simpleware Ltd (www.simpleware.com).

Dear colleague,   

The third issue in 2011 (Volume 24, Issue 3) of Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (AMSS) is now online. 

Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal <http://ees.elsevier.com/camss/&gt; for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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