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Journals in Physics and Engineering, and Preprint Servers Like arXiv

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

Hi all,

 

1. In the past, we have had quite some discussion regarding both open-access and open-access journals. However the slant in this blog post is different. I am not concerned here much about open-access journals per say.

A simple approximate expression for finite life fatigue behaviour in the presence of ‘crack-like’ or ‘blunt’ notches

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

After a long process (somebody may recall I made also quite some chaos on imechanica to complain with the review process in a previous journal), this paper was accepted.  Ask me a preprint if you are interested.  I can attach here a few images only.



M. CIAVARELLA

Politecnico di Bari, 70125 Bari, Italy

Received in final form 13 June 2011

 

Fluid Mechanics

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

This new book builds on the original classic textbook entitled: An Introduction to Computational Fluid Mechanics by C. Y. Chow which was originally published in 1979. In the decades that have passed since this book was published the field of computational fluid dynamics has seen a number of changes in both the sophistication of the algorithms used but also advances in the computer hardware and software available.

Timescale Multiscaling in Atomistic Simulations of Experimental Nanostructures

Submitted by vikastomar on

We all know most atomistic simulations in nanomechanics are performed on ideal materials that are not produced in laboratory and most experiments in nanomechanics are performed on materials that cannot be analyzed using atomistic simulations. Atomistic simulations indeed have a great capability in revealing a material's behavior with only constitutive law being used is that in the form of interatomic potential. The strain rate in atomistic simulations is of the order of 100000000 per sec which has not yet been achieved in any experiment or in a practical application.

Industry-level journal about FEM applications

Submitted by setareh on

Hi dear mechanicians,

I am about to publish the results of my MSc thesis in a journal. The thing is, my project was carried out in industry about multi-scale FE simulation of impact in composites. So it is merely an industry-level application of available methods.

 I want to ask if any of you have any particular journal in mind, in which publishing such a paper is rather easy (doable) and does not have a long waiting list for review??

Looking forward to your suggestions

Thanx a lot

Setareh

ICoBT 2011 - Final programme now available

Submitted by Laure Ballu on

The International Conference on BioTribolgy will take place in London, Imperial College, 18-21 September 2011. To download the full programme or to register, go to http://www.biotribologyconference.com

Modified Cam Clay in ABAQUS

Submitted by nislamce_adfa on

Hi All,

I am a new user in ABAQUS. I am interested to model soft soil of embankment using Modified Cam Clay model. I have modeled the similar problem in AFENA but in 2D. I am interested for 3D case. Can anyone extend co-operation, how to model soft soil in ABAQUS using Modified Cam Clay?

My email address: nislamce_adfa [at] yahoo.com

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Nurul Islam

Question about postprocessing in ABAQUS

Submitted by Gyanender Singh on

Hello,

 I am using Abaqus for a structural analysis problem. In the results I have stress distribution over the structure. I can use odb file to see the distribution of stresses as a function of space and time. 

I want to plot stress at a particular node as a function of time (and may be also stress distibution w.r.t. space coordinates at some instant of time). I have some general idea about the result file that can be generated from Abaqus and can be accessed. I am reading more about it but I am not sure if this is the right way.