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Understanding
material failure : Multiscale fracture models for silicon wafer manufacturing

Attention: This award is prestigious and reserved to TOP students.

The award will cover
tuition fees at the Home/EU fee rate and will provide a stipend at the UK
Research Council rate (£13,590 in 2010/11) plus an enhancement of at least
£1,000 per annum.  

Treating volumetric inequality constraint in a continuum media with a coupled X-FEM/Level-Set strategy

N. Bonfils, N. Chevaugeon, N. Moës

(accepted for publication in computer Methods in applied mechanics and engineering).

At least 25 Innovation Courses will be organized all over the world by Materialise.
The Innovation Course is an accessible, 2-day, hands-on training in the Mimics Innovation Suite in which you start with medical image data, create accurate 3D models and learn to; e.g. do 3D measurements and analyses, prepare for FEA and design patient-specific implants.

Join us at a location of your choice to see how powerful, yet how easy it can be to preform engineering operations on anatomical data.

A post-doctoral position is immediately available in our research group in the area of micromechanics of materials focusing on failure. Candidates with experience in computational modeling (MD/ meso-mechanics/ continuum mechanics) of crystalline/ non-crystalline (including polymeric) materials are encouraged to apply. Initial appointment will be for one year and may be extended by another year depending on the funding situation and performance.

If you are interested, please send me (shailendra[at]nus[dot]edu[dot]sg) your CV and the names of at least two references.

There is a very strange problem puzzled quite a few in the rotor blades (including helicopter blades and wind turbine blades) community. We hope some mechanician on this board can help us explain the situation.

Frank A. McClintock, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, passed away on Feb. 20, in the Briarwood Health Care facility in Needham, Mass. at the age of 90.

After getting his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1950, Frank (MIT ’43, SM ’43) was named assistant professor at MIT and served at the Department of Mechanical Engineering until he retired in 1990 and became professor emeritus.