Electro-creasing instability in deformed polymers: experiment and theory

Qiming Wang, Mukarram Tahir, Lin Zhang, and Xuanhe Zhao*

Soft Matter, In Press 

First of all, I would like to thank you all for the response. I apologize for the much delayed reply.

In what follows, I will list a few references about
dynamic behaviors of materials at large and the testing techniques. Of
course I will definitely omit some important books or papers since after
all I am more a materials scientist. Therefore, if you know of know of
any good references, please let us know.

The final phase of  The 1st Y.C. Fung Student Paper Competition on Biomechanics, Biophysics, and Biomatreriomics was held at Northeastern University, Boston, on June 3rd, 2011.

Seven finalists have participated the oral presentation, and they are:

                   Egor Dontsov from the University of  Minnesota,

During the Acta Astronautica Editorial Board held at the 61st IAC, Prague September 2010, Editor-in-Chief Rupert Gerzer announced that due to his steadily and steeply increasing work load at the DLR, he felt it best to turn the reins of Editor-in-Chief over to the very qualified and able (Rock) Jeng-Shing Chern who has served as Comission IV Editor since 2008. You can read Rock's editorial on ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576511001020

Applications are invited for a PhD Student Position to be held at the University of Limerick, Ireland (www.ul.ie) within the framework of a structured four-year PhD programme in Biomedical Engineering. The scholarship is at the rate of ~1300 EUR/month in addition to students fees. Closing date for applications is June 17^th 2011 at 5 PM. 

For more information please see the enclosed document.

Call for Abstracts: Symposium 3.2/5.6

"Molecular to Macroscale Mechanics in Biology and Engineering"

48th Annual Technical Meeting of Society of Engineering Sciences (SES) October 12-14, 2011 at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

I want to share our recent research work on FCC metallic nanowires, which is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry - C (ACS Publications). The abstract of the paper is given below. Further details can be found at " Sutrakar et al  J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115 (21), pp 10394–10398

Top candidates are sought for a collaborative research project between Dr. Sandra Shefelbine (Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London) and Dr. Markus Buehler (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).  This project will use molecular modelling techniques and associated experimental methods to explore the collagen-apatite interface in bone. 

Salary : €37,000 per annum for Ph.D. students (Early Stage Researchers Marie Curie Fellows) 

“Integrating Numerical Simulation and Geometric Design Technology (INSIST)” Leader: Prof. Timon Rabczuk, Weimar Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN)

Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN