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Mechanics of Materials: Textbook Recommendation

Submitted by vicky.nguyen on

I will be teaching a sophomore level class  mechanics of materials class.  The class will cover mechanics of basic strength of materials (e.g. beams, pressure vessels), but I also want to teach basic elements of failure mechanics (fracture, fatigue, plasticity, and wear.)  I'm looking for a recommendation of an undergrad mechanics textbook that covers the fracture, fatigue, plasticity, and wear.  The students will have had a statics and mechanics class and their textbook already covers strength of materials.  Thanks.

PhD studentship available

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TATA/EPSRC PhD studentship: Modelling of phase separation in steelmaking  Imperial College London - Department of Materials  Duration of Studentship: 42 months  Applications are invited for a studentship in the field of clean and green steel processing, leading to the award of a PhD degree. The post is to conduct research in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London and is supported by an initial bursary of £16,570 (including £3,000 p.a.

Problems with cohesive zone. Does it make sence to use them here?

Submitted by schurik01 on
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Hey I've got a beam and between two different materials i'm thinking to
put a cohesive zone with "weaker" material properties. Does it make
sense to use cohesive zone models?

 

My model is looking like this now. But I don't know what's wrong. It
seems taht the whole force/displacement is lost in the cohesive zone. 

If somebody can help that would be very nice

 here the pic: http://f.666kb.com/i/bnody4selpc6iml9m.jpg

Thanks for advance

 

About Multiscale

Submitted by Peng Liu on
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I’m studing Multiscale Finite Element Methods recently。But I find it diffcult to read the book——Multiscale Finite Element
Methods Theory and Applications,which by Yalchin Efendiev,Thomas Y. Hou。Anyone have some program codes about Multiscale Finite Element Methods ?How to couple the corsa mesh and fine mesh?Thanks!

Open PhD position in computational methods and inverse problems in cardiovascular biomechanics

Submitted by johnbrigham on

 Open PhD position in computational methods and inverse
problems in cardiovascular biomechanics
 

A highly motivated PhD student is sought for research in
computational methods and inverse problems at the University of Pittsburgh
(Pitt) Department of Bioengineering (BioE).