Dear Colleagues,

Hello,

My name is Nguyen Vinh Phu, a PhD student at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. I have been working with Prof. Bert Sluys on a project named "Coarse graining of failure in heterogeneous solids" since July 2007. I am finishing my work and therefore seeking for a postdoctoral position starting after July 2011.

My expertise in computational solid mechanics includes

(1) Finite elements, extended finite elements and meshless methods.

The Departement of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University

is seeking to fill two positions this year. One position is in the area of

aerospace materials. Details about the position and the application process may be found in the attached file.



As part of its Vision 2020, developed under the leadership of former President

Robert Gates, Texas A&M University started a few years ago an

unprecedented hiring initiative. This has lead to over 400 new positions

Open Postdoctoral Position in In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

This conference will take place in Hawai'i, USA, 11-14 December 2011

 Themes covered will include: 

• Natural, biologically inspired and biomimetic materials• Hard (e.g. bone, teeth, metals, ceramics) and soft (e.g.cartilage, tendon, silk, polymers) tissues and materials• Mechanobiology, regenerative medicine and tissue engineering• Multiscale modelling and simulation of mechanical properties• Multiscale experimental characterization of biological tissues, including AFM, nanoindentation, optical tweezers

The postdoctoral researcher will develop three-dimensional, network-like
models for fluid displacement in low permeability porous media. Such
porous materials involve multiple relevant length scales (e.g. micro-fractures
connected to the adjacent matrix) and models to date are not representative.

This research-only position will be supervised by Drs. Maša
Prodanović and Steven L. Bryant from Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin.

For more information and application procedure, please visit

Dear Colleagues:

Wing Kam Liu and I (Ashfaq Adnan) would like to invite you to submit abstract(s) to the following mini-symposium at the upcoming 11th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://www.usnccm.org/). The congress is scheduled to be held on July 25-29, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

 14.2 Multiscale Transport Phenomena in Biological and Biomedical System 

We have studied the elastic response of actin networks with both compliant and rigid crosslinks by modeling molecular motors as force dipoles. Our finite element simulations show that for compliant crosslinkers such as filamin A, the network can be stiffened by two orders of magnitude while stiffening achieved with incompliant linkers such as scruin is significantly smaller, typically a factor of two, in excellent agreement with recent experiments.

    东南大学力学学科的历史可追溯到上世纪50年代，由原南京工学院的胡乾善和梁治明两位知名教授领衔成立力学教研组、设置力学专业、招收本科生和研究生。经过五十余年的建设，东南大学工程力学系现有力学一级学科博士后流动站，工程力学和固体力学两个二级学科博士点，力学一级学科硕士学位授予权（含工程力学、固体力学、动力学与控制、流体力学四个二级学科硕士点），工程力学本科专业。由于学科发展需要，现面向海内外诚聘师资。

一、招聘条件     获得知名大学力学或相关学科博士学位；发表过多篇高水平学术论文；有较强的团队合作能力及宽阔的学术视野； 

二、招聘专业     工程力学、固体力学、动力学与控制、流体力学。

 三、应聘材料    中英文学术简历各一份、3篇代表性论文全文。 

In addition to the notes on stability that I've already posted, I have a set on Composites, which also originated from a lecture course that I gave in Ecole Polytechnique, around 2002. In the hope that they may be of interest at least to someone, here they are! Please do remember that they are just notes and may not be error-free.