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Applicants are invited for the above post, starting Sept 1^st, 2011 or soon thereafter, which is funded by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland, through the Competence Centre Programme. The successful candidate will be required to carry out modelling activities related to polymer matrix composites manufacturing, particularly by automated tow placement and liquid resin infusion processes. Developed models will be expected to assist design of concurrent experimental programmes, carried out by other researchers.

Idaho National Laboratory Research Leader and Manager, Carbon Resource Management Department The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is seeking a highly qualified individual to lead its Carbon Resource Management Department, which is a component of the Energy Systems and Technologies Division of the INL Energy and Environmental Science and Technology Directorate.

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