One post doc position and two PhD student positions are available immediately at Composite Vehicle Research Center, Michigan State University.

Research background in atleast one of the following key areas preferred

1. Experimental Mechanics

2. Composite Materials - Design, characterization or damage mechanics

3. Biomimetic Design - Analytical or Computational experience with interest in experimental validation

One postdoc and several PhD student positions are available at Clarkson University. Research background in at least one of the following areas is preferred.

1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures, computational mechanics and numerical methods

2. Probabilistic methods, engineering statistics, random process theory

3. Structural dynamics, health monitoring, signal processing, system identification

I am mahantesh, i am doing Mtech in design engg.  please tell me which books or articles i have to reffer so that i get good and depth knowledg of Finite element method.

The Dynamical Systems program in the Directorate of Engineering and the Applied Mathematics Program in the directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Sciences, of the National Science Foundation, have just published a joint "Dear Colleague Letter", expressing interest in special topics in Dynamical Systems.  The letter encourages unsolicited proposals on the following topics:

as you can see in attached, my model has been included too many small area, on the other hand hydrostatic and hydro dynamic pressure are gradient loads, so how we can apply these loads on inside and outside of shell plates as gradient loads?

There are several exact relations from the theory of composites that can be used to determine whether a new numerical or analytical approach gives reasonable answers. Here's a paper on some exact relations that I wrote up a long time ago and just recently posted on Scribd. 

Most of you have heard about the commissioning of the Large Hadron Colider (LHC) by CERN and then the explosion of Helium followed by a postponement of operation until spring next year.  One of the worries some people had was that a mini black hole would be created by the collsions.  Also, the anthropic principle in one of its forms suggests that every possible universe exists but we see only our universe because it's the one in which intelligent observers exist.

I have developed a set of simple and highly accurate two dimensional finite elements for the analysis of laminated composite structures. These elements are capable of accurately predicting three dimensional stress state (all six stresses) using constitutive law.  These elements reduce modeling effort, computational time and increase solution accuracy.

Can someone suggest me a proper source to support my research financially?