The Department of Civil Engineering at NCSU has an opening for tenure track faculty position in the general areas of Structural Engineering and/or Mechanics. The plan is to hire the best candidate irrespective of the specific area of research focus. Interested applicants are urged to act quickly, as the final review of applications may begin as early as next week (the week of January 11). The official advertisement is given below.

Hi everyone,

    I am not a student majoring in the mechanics. But I have found that: the element eroding method is so powerful in numerical simulation (i.e. using ls-dyna) if we reduce the mesh size, then we can get a very perfect fracture process of material. So why we need fracutre mechanics?

The newly founded National Hypersonic Science Center -- Materials and Structures is to organize a minisymposium in this year's WCCM (2010) on VirtualTesting for Hybrid Hierarchical Materials for High TemperatureApplications. Please see the attachment for paper solicitation. We will greatly appreciate your consideration of submitting a paper to our symposium (minisymposium No. MS5041) 

(in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids)

Johannes Zimmer, Karsten Matthies, Amit Acharya

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) possess extraordinary electrical and mechanical properties, with many possible applications in electronics and materials science. Dense, horizonally aligned arrays of linearly configured SWNTs represent perhaps the most attractive and scalable way to implement this class of nanomaterial in practical systems. Recent work shows that templated growth of tubes on certain crystalline substrates (e.g. quartz) yields arrays with the necessary levels of perfection, as demonstrated by the formation of devices and full systems on quartz.

Hi

Any body working on microstructural modelling, here i want know how to construct Basic real microstructure to FE mesh ?? 

This is the second call for abstracts for the 22nd Annual Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis.  Extended abstracts are due by January 8, 2010.   Details of the competition and submission procedure can be found here. 

Hi, everyone

Now I meet a problem, wish can obtain you help.

Now i do some research on multi-compose particle materials (eg. pharmaceutical science  materials)___predict the compressibility, compactibility, flow properties and  breakage behavior.

as we know, the molecular scale at 0.1-70nm scale and crystal growth process at 0.1-100nm scale, can i use the constitutive relationship at micro(=~um)/macro to analyze the performance and structure at this scale.

thanks !