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Revisiting the entropic force between fluctuating biological membranes

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 13:46

2011 Drucker Medal paper by Prof. John Rudnicki

Submitted by Yonggang Huang on Sun, 09/15/2013 - 08:48

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Journal of Applied Mechanics just published the 2011 Drucker Medal Paper: Localized Compaction in Porous Sandstones, authored by Profesor John Rudnicki from Northwestern University.

http://appliedmechanics.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=1724444

Professor John Rudnicki received the ASME Drucker Medal in 2011.

Sr. Staff Mechanical Engineer

Submitted by PredictiveEngi… on Sat, 09/14/2013 - 22:01

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FEA

ls-dyna

September 2013

Position Description:
Sr. Staff Mechanical Engineer

Targeted Salary Range: BSME $62k to $78k | MSME or Ph.D. $72k to
$90k

We are looking for a talented mechanical engineer with exceptional
communication skills with a background in FEA.

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, reproduced in HTML of exceptional high quality

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Sat, 09/14/2013 - 20:41

Caltech has made the Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol I, freely accessible online. The quality of the HTML file is exceptionally high. Take a look at the preface to learn how this electronic version was produced.

large deformation of beam element

Submitted by mjalilych1 on Sat, 09/14/2013 - 16:50

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nonlinear finite element formulations

hello

my name is mohamad. I am phd student in mechanical engineering. I want to use of total lagrangian formulation for analysis of a cantilever. my difficulty is on implementation of newton raphson method and incrementing load. my code does not converge. can you help me. if there is a simple code I was wondering if someone aware me.

thanks in advance.

Strain localization in a nanocrystalline metal: Atomic mechanisms and the effect of testing conditions

Submitted by Tim Rupert on Fri, 09/13/2013 - 19:09

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molecular dynamics

shear bands

nanocrystalline metals

ERC-funded postdoctoral position on computational biomechanics

Submitted by styliano on Fri, 09/13/2013 - 16:26

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postdoctoral position; computational biomechanics

Please see attached file for a description of the position opening.

Nonlinear elastic inclusions in isotropic solids

Submitted by arash_yavari on Fri, 09/13/2013 - 15:07

We introduce a geometric framework to calculate the residual stress fields and deformations of nonlinear solids with inclusions and eigenstrains. Inclusions are regions in a body with different reference configurations from the body itself and can be described by distributed eigenstrains. Geometrically, the eigenstrains define a Riemannian 3-manifold in which the body is stress-free by construction. The problem of residual stress calculation is then reduced to finding a mapping from the Riemannian material manifold to the ambient Euclidean space.