At Oxford University we are seeking to appoint a post doctoral Research Assistant to work on the modelling of cavity nucleation and growth in the heat affected zone of a welded component operating in the creep regime. A detailed advertisement and further particulars about the post can be found in the attached files.

Further Information can be obtained from Prof Alan Cocks - alan.cocks@eng.ox.ac.uk

Hi all,

I am using FEAP 8.2 in my university, and have to write a user material routine, but there is no clear guideline/example about which files to modify for this purpose. Sorry to say, the programmer's manual is very short, and very little detail is there.

The old tutorials/examples based on FEAP (7.x) are no longer helpful because the FEAP 8.2, 8.3 source code has changed considerably (atlease the files in user folder), hence the novice can get mad after trying for many weeks to figure out the way for doing this.

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to a Symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Structures and Materials in Advanced Technologies at the ASME 2012 IMECE, to be held Nov 9-15, 2012, at Houston Texas. This symposium will be the seventh in such a symposium series organized by ASME Technical Committee of Integrated Structures since IMECE 2006. We hope you can join us and continue the success of this symposium series.

Deadline of abstract submission is Monday, 27 Feb. 2012.

Topics of interests include, but not limited to the following areas: 

Dear Colleagues,

Dear fellows,

I am performing quasi-static analysis on ABAQUS/Explicit and I would like to know how one can change the number of time frames used in calculation. It is my understanding that the default value is 20 frames, but I would like to increase this number, if possible.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks for any input in advance.

Cheers.

Mike Ciavarelli and I discussed the possibility of doing a comparison of Italian and British Universities. On reflection, I could not decide where to begin but wrote the attached. It is part personal experience, part history and part Charles Dickens who was born 200 years ago today. If you don't understand the connection, read on.

I am Sri Harsha , currently in my final year of undergraduate study Mechanical Engineering (with Industrial & Production Engineering as Minor) from the Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering (www.klce.ac.in) located in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. I will complete my UG in May 2012.

I am interested in pursuing graduate study, preferably direct-PhD if possible and an eventual research career in academia.
My GRE score is 308/340. (from 1250-1280 as per the old scale). TOEFL score is 96/120.

Choon Chiang Foo, Shengqiang Cai, Soo Jin Adrian Koh, Siegfried Bauer, Zhigang Suo.

Model of dissipative dielectric elastomers.
Journal of Applied Physics 111, 034102 (2012).

Abstract

Dear Colleagues:

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the 2012 ASME
IMECE in Houston, to be held November 9-15, 2012.  Our minisymposium
is on "Multiphysics Simulations and Experiments for Solids", and is the
continuation of a very successful minisymposium held for the past 5 years
that have resulted in more than 40 presentations at the 2009, 2010 and 2011 IMECE conferences.  This year's focus areas
are:

1.Multiphysics modeling, simulation and experiments of electromechanical materials and systems

2.Multiphysics modeling, simulation  and experiments of optomechanical materials and systems

 I am try to make a glass fiber compoite material if any one know how to make the model& help to complete my project

HI,

I am currently working on a project in which i am using abaqus for FEA simulations. Now, i am currently experiencing a problem since i need controlled simulations ex: input force control using feed back loop system. I give a thought of interfacing abaqus with simulink.But, since i am new to it i don't know whether it is possible or not. Can any one help me out in this problem?is it possible to control the simulations in Abaqus using  simulink?if so, please help me out in clearing this problem.If anyone have an idea of this please provide me any link or material to solve this problem.

             Thank you.

Environment

The post-doctoral position will be accomplished within the BATir (Building, Architecture & Town planning) department of the Brussels School of Engineering/´Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles, at the Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles (http://batir.ulb.ac.be ). Duration of the position: 18 months, starting in April 2012.

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The applicant should hold a PhD in computational mechanics. Additional competences in numerical optimization, and structural finite elements, as well as programming skills (in MATLAB, PYTHON, C++, or any equivalent programming anguage) will be highly appreciated.

Why should we investigate fracture and failure mechanics? From this Boeing 737 accident (below) to recent fatigue cracks of new Airbus  A380,  we must use failure mechanics knowledge to save our lives. Therefore, Dr.H. Eliot Fang (Solid Mechanics Program Manager at the DOE Sandia National Labs) and I would invite you to submit abstracts to our symposium on Fundamentals and Applications of Failure Mechanics

The Italian prime minister faces big protests against liberalisation, and the biggest one who is about to explode is the "abolishment of legal value" of Italian Universities. See how Economist describes the Italian Reforms of Premier Monti .