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Finalists for the 2011 Melosh Competition Announced

Submitted by John E. Dolbow on

Six finalists have been announced for the Twenty-Third Annual Robert J. Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis. The finalists and their current institutions are:

Bircan Avci, Leibniz University

Andrea Hawkins-Daarud, University of Texas at Austin

Daniel Hurtado, California Institute of Technology

Sezgin Kucukcoban, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Scott, University of Texas at Austin

Were you using FEA in 1995?

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

All,



Anybody have approximate run times for the following linear static problems:



A) In 1995 on a reasonable workstation

20,000 degree of freedom



B) Now on modern desktop computer with quad core and plenty of RAM

20,000 degree of freedom

200,000 degree of freedom

1,000,000 degree of freedom

Any contributions/guesses/opinions welcome. The scatter will be useful.



Thanks



Lee

Why fracture and failure mechanics is so important? From Southwest Boeing 737 cracks to future Boeing 787 safety

Submitted by L. Roy Xu on

Even Jay Leno tried to understand fatigue cracks at his Yesterday’s Tonight Show, our research on fracture and failure mechanics is received great attention from the general public. Read more after this photo--

 

 

Postdoctoral Fellow Position Available in Fatigue of Al alloys at Monash University, Melbourne Australia

Submitted by christopher.hu… on

Dear Friends,

I am currently advertising for a new post-doc to work with me in the field of cyclic deformation and fatigue of precipitation hardenable Al alloys.  It is a 2yr position advertised at the following link.  Applications close 20th April.

http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=495459&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&lCategoryID=640%2C+636&stp=AW&sLanguage=en

Symmetry-Adapted Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics of Chiral Carbon Nanotubes under Tensile Loading

Submitted by Amin Aghaei on

Here is the paper "Symmetry-Adapted Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics of Chiral Carbon Nanotubes under Tensile Loading"

 Amin Aghaei, Kaushik Dayal

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University