The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics
The Fourth Biot Conference on Poromechanics will be held from June 8 to 10, 2009, at Columbia University, New York City. The conference web site is located at: http://www.civil.columbia.edu/biot/
PhD projects in computational fracture and computational/theoretical fluids at University of Melbourne
The Australian Mineral Science Research Institute (AMSRI) is a consortium of Australia's best scientists working in minerals industry-related fields. Research activities span the breadth of minerals processing, with major themes of the research being energy efficiency, frugal water use and efficient management of waste. The Mathematics program of AMSRI performs modelling and analysis research across multiple minerals processing areas, including comminution, flotation and waste treatment.
a question about ALE method
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hi, I'm a student studying ALE method. In the book of "Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures" written by Ted Belytschko el, conservation equations which discribed in the reference configuration and current configuration are given out (see chapter 7). But how about Balance Laws in initial configuration?
a review of a paper by HD Bui found in the internet !!
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I came across a review of a paper by HD Bui who was somewhere in the internet, and I find it is very interesting. I could even have written this review myself !! I don't think the reviewer exaggerates....
michele
difficulties CONTACT problem with plasticity using ABAQUS FEA code.
Hello everyone:
1. I have built a FEM model 2D plane strain using ABAQUS/Standard (CPE4R) elements,
2. I am modeling the contact between a cylinder and a plate in 2D.
3. The Cylinder material is given is ELASTIC ISOTROPIC material with no plasticit E=310 GPa
4. The plate is with a Ramberg-Osgood plasticity with a Young's modulus E=210 GPa.
5. The mesh at the the contact point is VERY refined element characteristic length is about 1 micron. (My model units are (mm,N,sec)).
Michael Ortiz wins inaugural Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics
I am delighted to announce on behalf of Elsevier that Professor Michael Ortiz of CalTech has won the very first Rodney Hill Prize in Solid mechanics in reconition of his body of research during the decade 1998-2007. The prize will be presented at ICTAM in Adelaide on 27 August by Y.S. Chi, Vice Chairman of Elsevier immediately prior to Michael's Hill Prize lecture. For more details please see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P10.cws_home/hillprizewinner
Dean Eastbury
Publisher
Two PhD positions available in the Netherlands
Two four-year PhD positions are available in the area of computational mechanics at the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Delft University of Technology. The job descriptions are attached.
Rail corrugation: ”one hundred years of solitude”? or a true enigma?
You may remember that I promised some time ago to discuss each of the topics mentioned by Ken Johnson in his Timoshenko Medal speach. Here I take rail corrugation. Rail corrugation has been noticed at least for 100 years, but (particularly short pitch one in the range 20÷80 mm) has been considered an enigma because measured corrugation wavelength did not relate well with wear instabilitymodels.
Issue 2 of J. Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials published
I am pleased to announce that Volume 1, Number 2 of the the recently-launched Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (www.elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm) has been published by Elsevier. All JMBBM articles can be accessed free-of-charge on ScienceDirect until September 2008 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17516161).