Dear all,

Herewith I want to announc the release of CONTACT version 10.2.

The main changes with respect to earlier versions of the program are as follows:

Hi all,

There is a lot of homogenization theories based on penetrable model or some other name like 'overlapping', 'randomly imbedded model' to analyze random microstructure. In reality, the fibers or inclusions can not be penetrated into each other, so why they use this assumption anyway?

 Thanks for your opinion.

National Research Council ranks the doctoral programs of universities in the States every ten years.  The new ranking just came out.  Here are the results for mechanicsl engineering and civil engineering.

Mechanical Engineering:

3. U. Michgan, Princeton

I feel honoured to share this news that, Dr. Vikram deshpande of cambridge University engineering department is appointed as Professor, effective October 1. He is quite a inspiration to people like me who work in solid mechanics.His contribution to this area is immense and i really feel happy for his acheivements and many more to come.

My heartiest congragulations to him

Dear all,

  I need suggestions regarding the transverse/out of plane material properties like E3, G13, G23 for woven composites. While modeling(and simulation) the woven composite in LS-Dyna where a shear load is applied over the surface of the laminate to study the damping behaviour of the material, i need to give the material properties (especially G13 or G23 plays a major role)  which is not precisely available in the literature.

ICoVP-2011

10th biennial International Conference on Vibration Problems 

September 5-8, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic 

Purpose of ICOVP-2011 is to bring together scientists with different background who are actively working on vibration-related problems of engineering both in theoretical and applied fields.

More information: http://www.icovp.org/ 

We are inviting abstracts for the following special session: Multiscale Computational Nanomechanics, Sixth MIT conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June 15-17, 2011, Cambridge, MA, USA.

http://www.sixthmitconference.org/

Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2011.

The topics covered by this special session include (but are not limited to):

-Continuum modeling incorporating nanoscale effects

The Institute of Structural Analysis at Leibniz Universität Hannover invites applications for a

PhD candidate position

(Salary scale TV-L E13)  

The position will be available from 1 November 2010 and should lead to a PhD thesis.

Research Project