FacultyPositioninComputational Solid Mechanics,CornellUniversity 

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras is seeking to fill Assistant Professor vacancies in the following research areas.

1.      Experimental Structural Mechanics

2.      Control and Flight Mechanics of Aerospace vehicles

3.      Aircraft Design

4.      Experimental Studies on External Flows

5.      Aerodynamics of Aircraft (wing-body configurations,reentryvehicles)

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the Shock & Blast session under track 1 'Dynamic Behavior of Materials'. This symposium is part of the 2017 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and applied Mechanics to be held at Hyatt Regency Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 12-15, 2017.

The classical problem of a cable under axial load has been revisited by Weiguo Wu and Xin Cao: Mechanics model and its equation of wire rope based on elastic thin rod theory, International Journal of Solids and Structures, in press, 9 pages. On line 22 october 2016 at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020768316303122 .

Model is applied to a multistrand ccable given in a book by Costello (1990). Axial stiffness results compare very well.   

The update to TURBOdesign Suite provides significant new features and functionality to enable designers to produce highly optimized designs faster than ever before.

Conference website: http://energy7.nscj.co.uk/

RVE analysis is popular for computational homogenization. It can be used independently for virtual testing or as a module for multiscale modeling. Its popularity is mainly due to the maturity and acceptance of commercial finite element software. RVE analysis usually requires a 3D domain to obtain 3D properties and local fields. If a 2D RVE is used, only 2D properties and local fields are obtained. To obtain the complete set of properties, multiple analysis is needed. For example, to obtain the complete stiffness matrix, six 3D RVE analyses are needed.

2017 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference

Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA

July 16 – 20, 2017

The ASME Materials and Fabrication Committee (M&F) is inviting papers in the technical sessions on Application of Fracture Mechanics in Failure Assessment (Topic MF-2). The papers will appear in the PVP 2017 conference proceedings and may be considered for publication in the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology (JPVT) or any other ASME archival journals.

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Acta Mechanica Sinica (Volume 32, Issue 5, 2016 ) is online now !

Dear everyone!

The fifth issue in 2016 (Volume 32, Issue 5) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is online now.

Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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Can  any one tell me what are the variable stiffness composites and what are the manufacturing challeneges involved.