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Engineering position open

Submitted by Hiring Mgr on

Smith International, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company, is a world-wide leading supplier of premium products and services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, the petrochemical industry and other industrial markets.  We are seeking to hire a qualified candidate to fill the position of Engineer III in our Houston, TX location.   The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, organizing, and executing design development projects resulting in the definition of new products and improvements to existing dr

Ductile fracture prediction in Taylor Test

Submitted by sivaprasad.avs on

I am reading the Weirzbicki's paper titled "Numerical Prediction of fracture in the Taylor test". I do not understand the terms stress triaxility and Lode angle parameter clearly. What does the term "negative stress triaxiality at -1/3" stand for? Kindly explain me these two aspects clearly and also provide some references for reading.

Thanks and Regards,

Siva Prasad A V S.

Opening for new Ph.D. students in the Computational Mechanics group, The University of Iowa

Submitted by Vaibhav Yadav on

The Computational Mechanics group at The University of Iowa, led by Professor S. Rahman,

is looking for new Ph.D. students, who are capable of and interested in performing

high-quality research on reliability-based design optimization.  The research, supported

by NSF and others, entails developing new theory and efficient algorithms for stochastic

computing and design optimization. A solid background in mechanics and elementary

numerical analysis is a must; some exposure to uncertainty and probabilistic methods is

desirable.

Contact analysis in Abaqus

Submitted by cgouder on

Dear Friends. 

                   I am trying to model a moving truck on a bridge . Initially I want to try doing a static analysis. For this , I have modeled tyres as analytically rigid cylinders and, placing them on the solid slab element . After this i have applied a velocity boundary condition to the rigid cylinder , and also a load ( Pointing in the direction of gravity) to the reference point . 

XFEM

Submitted by miad on

The new feature of XFEM was added to the ABAQUS6.9-2. Does anybody
know how can I extract the current configuration of crack in terms of distance
values from nodes? I know that PHILSM provides information on this issue, but
it is only about crack plane. I want nodal distance from crack front

 

Career after the Ph.D.

Submitted by Alessio on

Hi,



I'm an Engineer and a Ph.D. student in Applied Maths, working in the field of Nonlinear Finite Elements for Elasticity. I often think about my future career since, by now, I have a strong experience with coding FE in C++/Matlab/Mathematica, but no clue whatsoever about commercial black-box softwares for FEA. I'm worried about this, since most of the job vacancies from the industry (I'm not interested in pursuing the Academic career) seem to require only experience with a specific software and application, and not to directly code FE.