Welcome to February 2010 Journal Club!  This month, I look forward to a lively discussion on the mechanics of structured and patterned interfaces in which geometry is used to tailor adhesion.  Much of the work in this area has been inspired by a variety of animals and insects that have feet covered with small structures (often hierarchical and sub-micrometer in size at the end) that allow them to strongly adhere to a broad range of surfaces.  The best known example is the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko), which can achieve an adhesion force much greater than its body weight

can we use mesh-free methods as commercially as finite element methods can be applied.?

I want to develope a software for analysis of 3D frame using meshfree method is it possible?

Dear friends and colleagues,



We invite you to submit an abstract to Symposium on Mechanics of Soft Materials. This symposium is part of 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, November 12-18, 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This symposium is sponsored by the newly formed Mechanics of Soft Materials technical committee in Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.

2010 ASME INTERNATIONAL MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS & EXPOSITION

12-18 November 2010

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

http://www.asmeconferences.org/congress2010

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 1 MARCH 2010

I wrote these notes on the Griffith (1921) paper for a graduate course on fracture mechanics taught in 2010.  The notes were updated when I taught the course in 2014, and were discussed in a new thread titled Inglis (1913) vs. Griffith (1921).

Submitted to the Journal of Applied Mechanics on 2/1/2010. 

Hi,

I am doing some test on the fracture toughness.

I am wondering if in Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics, Fracture toughness of the material is equal to fracture energy or not?

Can anybody send me an naswer,

Thank you,

Manooir