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Structural Engineering in 20 years time??!

Submitted by Mahdi Kazemzadeh on

Since early 60’s the world of structural engineering has been revolutionised. The advance development in science and technology resolved those issues raised by pioneer engineers but at the same time introduced complications into the world of engineering never known before. The question is where we see structural engineering within the next decade. How do we think it will evolve?

Post-Doctoral Fellow position available at the University of Sydney, Australia - Modelling dislocation-precipitate interaction

Submitted by Luming Shen on

The School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia, is currently looking for a Post-Doctoral Fellow to study the effect of dislocation-precipitate interaction on the strength of Aluminium alloys using Molecular Dynamics.

3rd International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues - abstract submission deadline April 24!

Submitted by Louise Morris on

The Third International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues will take place in Clearwater Beach, 13-17 December, 2009.  Further information available at http://www.icmobt.elsevier.com

Contributions are invited for oral and poster presentation - extended abstracts should be submitted online at http://www.icmobt.elsevier.com by April 24, 2009.

Look forward to seeing you in Florida!

QLV (Quasi Linear Viscoelasticity) vs Linear Viscoelasticity

Submitted by Gungho on

Can anyone explain what is main difference between Linear Viscoelasticity vs qlv (Quasi linear Viscoelasticity) proposed by Fung.  As far as I understand stress relaxation function and elastic response functions separated and given in convolution form which provides "strain rate independent" results in qlv application.  



Is linear viscoelastic description is strain dependent?



A*STAR Investigatorship 2009: Prestigious Research Awards

Submitted by Yuhang Hu on

SERC launched the A*STAR Investigatorships in 2007.
This prestigious award for top international young research talent,
tenable at our research institutes, aims to nurture young talent and
build R&D capabilities in Singapore. This year, the award is open
for applications in the following areas:



- Cognitive Systems, including Robotics

- Metamaterials and Plasmonics

- Bioenergy and Energy Storage Technologies

- Medical Technologies for Diagnostics



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3 PhD Research Fellowships at the Department of Structural Engineering (IVT-18/09)

Submitted by leifh on

The Department of Structural Engineering announces 3 positions as
research fellows. The department has at present 21 professors, 7
adjunct professors, 3 in other academic positions, 3 adjunct associate
professors, and 50 research fellows.

The employment period is 4 years, and the positions are within these 4 core areas at the department:

Very fundamental questions on XFEM

Submitted by bruno-page on

1)XFEM is suitable in simulatng crack propogation problem because using conventional FEM this

would have required repeated meshing.This is what I've read in most introductory chapters regarding XFEM but what is

its application beyond crack propogation studies?

2)Parttion of unity framework:The main idea is to construct basis functions as products of piecewise shape functions

and local enriched basis functions.But my question is how the concept works in exactly smulating the requirement of