Deadline extended for NT2F12 congress which will be held in Transilvania University of BRASOV.

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The old city, founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1211, is one of the best preserved cities in all of Europe. It was thotoughly restored to the delight of an increasing number of tourist. It is the capital city of Brasov Country, in central Romania, in Transylvania, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. Brasov also makes a fabulous base for exploring the surrounding countryside where the air is clean and the people friendly.

Dear Colleagues,

we would like to inform you that the Italian Group of Fracture (IGF), engaged in fostering the research in the fields of Fracture Mechanics and Structural Integrity at the national and international levels (IGF is the Italian chapter of the European Structural Integrity Society) has recently setup the following dissemination strategies and activities for 2012:

let me know if you are interested in long distance research cooperation.

can be as simple as you get my explaination if you want/need to cite my works, or co-authoring paper in things that we can work synergically, or even research collaboration.

the only thing that i will not respond is if you ask for job....:) cant give you that.

 here is some of my recent works:

 computational materials science, 50(4) 2011 pp.1499-1503

 theoretical and applied fracture mechanic, in press, doi:

10.1016/j.tafmec.2011.10.004

 or go to scopus dot com and sciencedirect and put my last name for author search.

and let me know if your interest matches my interest. or if you need to cite my works. thanks

Hi,

I am encountering a weird error in ABAQUS analysis. Their is no information in the files about why this error occurs, the execution just terminates all of a sudden. Following is the error:

Minisymposium on Fracture and Contact Mechanics for Interface Problems

Organizers: Marco Paggi, Alberto Carpinteri, Peter Wriggers

Contact person: Marco Paggi (marco.paggi@polito.it)

First announcement

IUTAM SYMPOSIUM  Fracture phenomena in nature and technology
Brescia, Italy, July 1-5, 2012

Web page:  http://events.unitn.it/en/iutam2012

Call for contribution

Adv. Funct. Mater.  DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201101224

The conference is now only 6 weeks away.  If you haven't already registered, please do so at http://www.tc4pca.elsevier.com/

I was going through these papers:

1.P.K. Sarkar and S.K. Maiti, 'Prediction of mode-1 fracture toughness of unidirectional fibre composites with arbitrary crack fibre orientation from its lowest or matrix fracture toughness'. int. J. Fracture, vol. 40. pp. R91-R96, (1989).

2.S.K. Maiti and P.K. Sarkar, 'A method of calculation of total strain energy release rate and its layer-wise distribution for an arbitrary through the thickness crack extension in a composite laminate', Engg. Fracture Mechanics, vol. 36, pp. 639-646,(1990).

Even Jay Leno tried to understand fatigue cracks at his Yesterday’s Tonight Show, our research on fracture and failure mechanics is received great attention from the general public. Read more after this photo--

IJSI-2012
 
1st International Conference of the International Journal of Structural Integrity

June 25-28, 2012
 
Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Porto, Portugal
 
www.fe.up.pt/ijsi-2012
 

Title: Structural FEA Intern 

Employer: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Location: Sugar Land, TX, USA

Starting Date: Available immediately 

2 Year PDRA Opportunity in:

Image Based Modelling to Improve Damage/Fracture Tolerance in Materials

To register, go to www.tc4pca.elsevier.com

Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland 11-15 September 2011

For more information, go to www.tc4pca.elsevier.com

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