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Call for papers
17th Midwestern Mechanics Conference, May 6-8, Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1981, The University of
The program will consist of invited lectures as well as invited and contributed papers. Contributed papers are solicited in all areas of mechanics. There is no restriction on geographic location of authors. Papers to be presented will be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts. The abstracts of papers to be presented will appear in the Proceedings of this conference. Full publication elsewhere is permitted and encouraged. Abstracts must be received by February 1,198l. For further details, contact AS. Wineman, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 201 West Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A.
Book Review Addition Rheology of Polymers, by G.V. Vinogradov and A. Ya Malkin, 1977 (In Russian). Readers of the J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics may be interested to learn that the above book, which was reviewed in Vol. 4, p. 371, has recently been revised and translated into English and is available from Mir Publishers, Moscow. K. Walters
Corrigendum R.B. Bird, P.J. Dotson and N.L. Johnson, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 7 (1980) 213-235 An error was made in the preparation of Fig. 1. The figure would be correct as drawn if the abscissa were labeled X,((b + 3)‘/b2)T rather than h,~.