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PhD Studentship: Rock Fracture and Fragmentation - Imperial London, UK

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PhD Studentship: Rock Fracture and Fragmentation

IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 AUGUST 2011

 

Background: The Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Recovery was founded

in 2008 in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College

London. The Centre is a partnership between Imperial College and Rio Tinto,

one of the world’s largest mining companies, and is aimed at developing safer,

Local water slamming impact on sandwich composite hulls

Submitted by kaushik das on

Recently we analyzed water-slamming impacts on sandwich composite hulls. Water slamming impact problems are very interesting problems involving fluid-structure interactions.  A link to our paper and the abstract are given below. I hope that you will find the paper interesting. Please feel free to write your comments below.      

Kaushik Das and Romesh C. Batra, Local water slamming impact on sandwich composite hulls, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Volume 27, Issue 4, May 2011, Pages 523-551

Stretchable thin film transistors on mechanically graded elastomeric substrate

Submitted by splacour on

We have manufactured stretchable thin-film transistors and interconnects directly onto an engineered silicone matrix with localized and graded mechanical compliance. The fabrication only involves planar and standard processing. Brittle active device materials are patterned on non

Whitesides on how to write a paper to communicate your research

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

George Whitesides has published over 1,100 papers.  In 2004 he published a three-page essay “Whitesides’ Group:  Writing a Paper”.  I have been asking all my students to study this essay when they begin to work with me.  Now you can watch Whitesides on video explaining his approach to publishing papers.