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International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials X

Submitted by Sophie Hayward on
conference
Fatigue damage; structural metals; crack growth; residual stress; corrosion; abrasion; oxidation



Submit your abstract now for the International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials X, at http://www.fatiguedamageconference.com/submit-abstract.html

The abstract submission deadline is on the 13 December 2013. Don't miss out on your chance to be a part of this exciting meeting.



All submitted abstracts will undergo a full review with accepted abstracts selected for either poster display or oral presentation.

A PhD student position on Computational Structural Mechanics in Catholic University of America.

Submitted by chanseok on
job
A PhD student position on Computational Structural Mechanics is available in Department of Civil Engineering, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 
from Fall 2014.


PhD Research Topics: numerical modeling in one of the following areas:
-Dynamic soil-structure-interaction (SSI) analysis,
- Inverse scattering problems for non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of structures,
- Optimization of wave sources for elastic wave-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR),

Rotational Abaqus Direct Cyclic Boundary Condition

Submitted by paulamil on
research
ABAQUS
Direct Cyclic

Greetings,

I am attempting to model the rotation of a cylindrical bar using Abaqus 6.12 coupled with the direct cylic approach. In my model I have one end of the beam fixed while the other has a kinematic coupling constraint to a reference point that has an applied rotation of 0.1 rad.

XFEM for rock in ABAQUS

Submitted by kianoosh on
software
XFEM in porous media (rock)

Hi


I tried to simulating crack propagation with XFEM method  in porous media (rock),  but got error code 144 (like this error" the executable C:\SIMULIA\Abaqus\6.9-1\exec\standard.exe aborted with system error code 144. Please check the .dat, .msg, and .sta files for error messages if the files exist. If there are no error messages and you cannot resolve the problem, please run the command" )

I think abaqus 6.11 can't simulating crock propagation with XFEM method  in porous media , is it true?

Minisymposium on Nano and Biomechanics at 2014 USNCTAM

Submitted by Harold S. Park on
conference
Conference
bio mechanics
minisymposium
nano mechanics
USNCTAM

Dear Mechanics Colleagues:

A pleasant reminder that we invite you to submit an abstract to a minisymposium on "Nano and Bio
Mechanics" for the 2014 USNCTAM, June 15-20, 2014, to be held at
Michigan State University. This minisymposium will focus on the
development and application of

both experimental techniques and computational models and methods to

problems of interest in the fields of nano and bio mechanics. Topics of

interest will include, but are not limited to:

High-temperature tensile behavior of freestanding Au thin films

Submitted by Gi-Dong Sim on
research
thin films
Grain Boundary Sliding
creep
Vlassak group
In situ tension test
High-temperature deformation

In this paper, the mechanical behavior of freestanding thin sputter-deposited films of Au is studied at temperatures up to 340°C using tensile testing. Films tested at elevated temperatures exhibit a significant decrease in flow stress and stiffness. Furthermore the flow stress decreases with decreasing film thickness, contravening the usual notion that “smaller is stronger”. This behavior is attributed mainly to diffusion-facilitated grain boundary sliding.

This paper has been accepted by Scripta Materialia.

Opening of PhD student position available at University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Submitted by Guoliang Huang on
job
composite metamaterials

The group of Advanced Materials and Dynamics Lab at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has one opening for a Ph.D. student in the field of mechanics of materials. The appointment is starting on May 2014 or August 2014.

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