High-performance stretchable electronics have to utilize high-quality inorganic electronic materials such as silicon, oxide or nitride dielectrics, and metals. These inorganic materials usually crack or yield at very small intrinsic strains, for example, 1%, whereas bio-integrated electronics are expected to at least match the stretchability of bio-tissues (20%) and deployable structure health monitoring networks are expected to expand from wafer scale (several centimeters) to cover macroscopic structures (several meters).

Dear colleagues, 

We cordinally invite you to submit abstracts for our symposium on Multiscale Digitial Rock and Granular Physics in the upcoming EMI conference (June 16-19, 2015) at Stanford University. The scope of the conference is listed below. The due date for the abstract submission is 11/15/2014. Further details can be found at http://www.emi2015.info/

Best Regards,

Dear Mechanics Colleagues:

A pleasant reminder that we invite you to submit an abstract to Symposium on “Multifunctional and Multiphysics Materials for Energy Applications” at the 2015 Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Annual Conference, to be held on June 8-11, 2015, in Costa Mesa, CA.

In a pure liquid, molecules touch one another but change neighbors frequently.  External forces cause the liquid to change shape by viscous flow.  Thermal agitation causes  molecules to undergo self-diffusion.  The two phenomena--viscous flow and self-diffusion--often result from a single rate-limiting process:  molecules change neighbors.  This simple picture is amply confirmed by the Stokes-Einstein relation, which links the viscosity and self-diffusivity for many liquids over wide ranges of temperature.

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Dear all

My project work is in crack analysis, so I used cohesive zone model for crack analysis in Abaqus.I implement the cohesive element in crack path but I don't known how to plot crack extension vs time(load, J-integral) curve.

Pls suggest the procedure for ploting crack extension curve.

thanks.

The Kang Group at Johns Hopkins University is looking for outstanding candidates to join the group. We have openings as below.

The Bioengineering Science Research Group at the University of Southampton invites applications for an 18 month post-doctoral position investigating the mechanical performance of unicondylar knee arthroplasty (UKA). 

Soft Matters, (2014) Advance article