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history of science

Submitted by Catalin I. Pruncu on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 20:46

Romania

This country is indeed placed at the crossroad of Central Europe (Mittel Europa).

Transylvania (Brasov, Timisoara) was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The

Kingdom of Romania was created in 1859, and became independent of the

Ottoman Empire in 1877. Present day Romania is a sovereign country of nearly

20 millions of inhabitants. Somewhat as a gross simplification, we could say that it

is a ‘‘Danubian’’ country with a Latin language, which is surrounded by countries

ABAQUS

Submitted by srinath iyengar on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 18:34

software

ABAQUS/CAE

Hi Everyone

I just started using ABAQUS. I was trying to plot a graph for stress vs
strain for a simple problem, plate with a hole. I could use some help
here. Really appreciate it if anyone could help me with the steps.

Srinath

Jobs in Simulation and Theory of Nanofriction (Erio Tosatti's Group, SISSA and ICTP Trieste)

Submitted by tosatti on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 18:04

job

Nanofriction

sad news for mechanician. Departure of HD Bui, member of french academy of science

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 15:31

mechanician

hd bui

Unfortunately, HD Bui, 76, passed away yesterday evening. An elegant, dedicated, very discreet but bright mind, HD Bui made a long career at Ecole Polytechnique and EDF, making important contributions in fracture mechanics and inverse engineering. Lately, he returned to work on his interesting contributions on the Cheops pyramid and the spiralling internal structure.

He was considered the most prominent vietnamese scientist in France, of 400 000 living there.

fracture simulation analysis problem

Submitted by xiaolei jia on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 12:46

does welding simulation result can be used as a predefined load in a subsequent fracture analysis with ABAQUS?

Crack thickness

Submitted by Konstantin Volokh on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 12:41

research

fracture

crack

Macroscopic
cracks do not appear as a result of an ideal separation of two adjacent atomic
layers. Just the opposite, cracks appear as a result of the development of
multiple micro-cracks triggered by the massive breakage of atomic bonds. The microcracking
and the bond breakage are not confined to two neighbor atomic planes: the
process involves thousands atomic planes within the representative characteristic
volume of size h. This size defines the width (not the lenth) of the damage
localization zone and it can be called the crack thickness. The knowledge of

PhD Program in Computational Mechanics and Advanced Materials

Submitted by eli_compmech on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 16:49

job

We would like to highlight to all the interested students that is now opened the competition for the academic year 2013-2014 (starting from November 1, 2013) for 5 positions in PhD program in "Computational Mechanics and Advanced Materials" hosted by the The Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia, in cooperation with the University of Pavia. The program chairman is Prof. F. Auricchio.

ICMoBT 2013 - Keynote Speakers announced

Submitted by Laure Ballu on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 09:32

fibre-reinforced composites

We are pleased to announce the following speakers:

• Julio M. Fernández, Columbia University, USA

• Guy Genin, WUSTL, USA (bone-tendon mechanics, brain injury)

• Morteza Gharib, California Institute of Technology, USA

• Stanislav N. Gorb, Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel, Germany

• Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez, Imperial College, UK (surfaces and ceramics)

• Jamie Kruzic, Oregon State University, USA (biomaterials, interfaces)

Lockheed Martin funded Post-Doctoral Position: Carbon Nano Structured Materials at Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi

Submitted by priyank_upadhyaya on Wed, 05/29/2013 - 03:30

materials characterization

Applications are invited for the position of "Post‐doctoral Research Fellow" as part of a multi-disciplinary collaborative project funded by Lockheed Martin. The project's Principal Investigators are:

Dr. Kumar Shanmugam, Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Matteo Chiesa, Materials Science & Engineering

Dr. Amal Al Ghaferi, Materials Science & Engineering