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Dear blog-readers,



As you may know, our research group has, with my leaving the UK, moved in part to Luxembourg, where I am now based. I am of course keeping close ties with Cardiff, where Pierre Kerfriden is now taking care of the group.



It has been a fun and productive year, and I thank you all for contributing to this through numerous discussions emanating from this blog. I wish you all the best for 2014, and hope that it will bring you joy in the work you do.



Best regards from Lausanne where we are enjoying a few days off.

Tunable Stiffness of Electrorheological Elastomers by Designing Mesostructures 

 I tried to solve the problem
that a rigid disc under harmonic moments resting on a porous half-space, the
porous medium is modeled using Biot's theory, when I consider the disc as
totally impervious, I found from the numerical results that negative damping
appears when the permeability of the porous medium is very low at a small
exciting frequency. I have no idea whether this is possible, can someone give
me some suggestions? Thanks very much.  

Our Mechanics of Materials Group at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands has two openings for talented PhD students in the field of multiscale mechanics of materials. They are part of a European Union funded project on multiscale methods for advanced materials. One opening is on the development of a fundamentally new multiscale approach towards material modelling and the other aims to integrate this approach with experimental methods.

Post-Doc Position: Colloids in polymer systems: Numerical studies and simulations

The Material and Process Simulation group at the University of Bayreuth is offering a

1 Post-Doc Position TV-L E13 (m/f)

Colloids in polymer systems: Numerical studies and simulations