A PhD position in the area of mechanics of heterogeneous materials is open in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Virgina.

The successful candidate will possess strong analytical and computational skills, as well as an MS degree in a related field. A TOEFEL score of 90 plus is required for admission into the SEAS PhD Program at the University of Virginia in the case of international student applicants. It is anticipated that the successful applicant will start his/her PhD studies at some point in the spring of 2011. 

The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position to begin Septmeber 1, 2011. We anticipate hiring at the tenured Associate or Full Professor level, although truly exceptional candidates may be considered at the level of untenured Assistant or Associate Professor.

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Duke University and the Pratt School of Engineering invite applications and nominations for the position of Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS). MEMS is one of four departments in the Pratt School of Engineering, within a world-class, top-ranked teaching and research institution.

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  I have written a Fortran code for nonlinear viscoelasticity according to the Hughes' recurrence algorithm based on a total Lagrangian formulation.  And a relaxation test is made. There is some deviation from the analytical solution(Theoretically the stress response should be an exponential decay plus a constant, isn't it?). The numerical ultimate stress is larger than the analytical one. As a larger initial strain is applied, the deviation is smaller. For a inital strain of 10%, there is almost no difference between the num. and analy. solution. What can account for this?

The Technische Universitaet Dortmund in Germany is advertising a full professorship (W3) in Mechanics in the Institute of Mechanics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

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Initially, I asked this question to the Yahoo Group COMSOL
(FE package for multi physics simulation) because I thought, that there I
can find someone who is familiar with both COMSOL and Abaqus.
Unfortunately, among the experts of COMSOL I did not find an expert in
Abaqus.

COMSOL has an example 'Tube Connection' - a flange with four prestressed
bolts is subjected to tensile forces. To compute the influence of the
tensile force on the stress level in the bolt, the model includes a

We have conducted an integrated experimental and numerical analysis to study the compression-after-impact (CAI) response of woven fiber-reinforced composites.

On 16 and 17 February 2011 the Conference on Sustainable Construction and Design will take place. This event now comes to its third edition. Coming from a one-day event (called "Day of Research") where the research of our industrial and academic partners was presented, the conference has now grown to a scientific platform where the industrial and academic communities can exchange the latest research developments in following fields: