Dear Colleagues,  You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the following mini-symposium at the 11^th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://www.usnccm.org/), to be held on July 25-29, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 

7.7 Mechanics of Materials from Nano to Macro Scales Organized by James D. Lee and Ken P. Chong,  The George Washington University 

Dear Colleagues and friends,



you are kindly invited to participate to the next European Congress
on Advanced Materials and Process:

EUROMAT2011 ( http://euromat2011.fems.eu/)
to be held in Montpellier, France, September 12-15, 2011.

In particular, you might be interested in submitting your abstract
to the symposium

F14: "Mechanical characterization and modeling of tissues and
biomedical materials at all length scales"

Abstracts due Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 

APS March Meeting Focus session: "Tribophysics: Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales"

March 21 - 25, 2011, Dallas, Texas

Details at http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/scientific/focus2.cfm#12.7.3

Invited speakers: Michael Marder (Univ. of Texas); Julia Greer (Caltech)

Organizers: Robin Selinger (Kent State), Jacqueline Krim (NCSU), Noam Bernstein (NRL)

I have an idea: In abaqus, I want to simulate crack propagation by XFEM, and meanwhile I also want to define the stress update algorithm by writing a UMAT.
Anybody wants to share related experiences?

hi my friends,

i am using abaqus standard Mohr-Coloumb plasticity to model uniaxial compression test, so i have sample and (upper and lower platen) to represent the compression machine , i apply the load through the movement of the upper platen, the stress strain diagram of my material is strain softening.

The deadline for submitting abstracts has now been extended to 15 November. To submit, go to http://www.tc4pca.elsevier.com/abstractsubmission.asp

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Minnesota Duluth has two post-doc openings in the areas of (1)Multifunctional nano materials/devices (2)Smart materials and structures. 

TO APPLY: Your complete application must include a cover letter, a curriculum vita, a one-page research plan, and contact information for three current references, which must be submitted online on the Employment System at:http://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=91230

I wrote these notes about 10 years ago to supplement a course of lectures at Ecole Polytechnique.  There might be errors in the notes, but I hope they can help you learn this fascinating subject of lasting value.