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I am currently reading a book about "Material Inhomogeneities in Elasticity" written by Gérard Maugin.
He brings up the covariancy and contravariancy of some well-known stress tensors and in particular that of the Cauchy stress tensor. I was not very familiar with the concept of covariance, so i read up on this very specific tensorial notion.
I have been able to demonstrate easily that the deformation gradient F is a mixed tensor (covariant and contravariant).
Please find below a link to an open position (Assistant Professor, tenure track) at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Switzerland). http://professeurs.epfl.ch/page74720.html
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As far as I know, there are two ways to derive the linearized equations (employed in the Newton-Raphson method) in nonlinear finite element methods.
In the first approach, starting with the weak formulation, the FE approximations are substituted into the weak form, you then get the semi-discrete equations. After that, the linearization is applied on this discrete equation to get the tangent matrix. The book of Prof. Ted Belytschko followed this approach.
Is it possible to carryout the Fatigue Analysis using LS Dyna.
If it is not possible then what will be the best software to carry out the analysis.
Prof. Xiaodong Li and I are collaborating in identifying those physical mechanisms that govern the mechanical properties of nanomaterials. Recently, we have a manuscript accepted by the Journal of Applied Physics and would like to share it with you.
This morning I was looking at the book Mechatronic Reliability by Wei Yang. The forword I wrote for the book brought back memories of days he and I spent in Santa Barbara and Princeton. The text of the forword follows.
Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Applied Mechanics Division, in the Back Bay Ballroom, Sheraton Hotel, Boston, in the evening of 4 November 2008, the Election Day of the United States of America
