continuum mechanics

It is with great sadness that I report the passing away of Prof. Don Carlson. The link below describes his life and work.

http://mechse.illinois.edu/content/news/article.php?article_id=410

Amit Acharya and Kaushik Dayal

 (To appear in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics)

This paper presents a generalization of traditional continuum approaches to liquid crystals and

liquid crystal elastomers to allow for dynamically evolving line defect distributions. In analogy with

recent mesoscale models of dislocations, we introduce fields that represent defects in orientational

and positional order through the incompatibility of the director and deformation ‘gradient’ fields.

The Graduate School MUSIC ("Multiscale Methods for Interface Coupling") and the

Institute of Continuum Mechanics at Leibniz Universität Hannover invites

applications for a position as a

Research Staff Member in Computational Mechanics

(Salary scale E13 TV-L)

to be appointed on 1 April 2010.

The position is embedded into the Junior Research Group on „Multiscale Modelling of

Materials and Interfaces with Size Effects” and is initially limited to 1 year.

 (in Computational Methods for Microstructure-Property Relationships," Springer. Edited by Somnath Ghosh and Dennis Dimiduk)

Dislocation mediated continuum plasticity: case studies on modeling scale dependence, scale-invariance, and directionality of sharp yield-point

Claude Fressengeas, Amit Acharya, Armand Beaudoin