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2 open positions at the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht / Germany (PhD and Postdoc)

Submitted by mosler on
Two open positions are available at the Department of Solids and Structures within the institute of Materials Research (Division: Materials Mechanics) at the Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH / Germany. Further details can be found within the attachments.

Job opening for FEM developer - Principal Research Scientist

Submitted by deform1 on

Scientific Forming Technologies Corporation (SFTC) is currently looking for several self-motivated and talented individuals to further develop its Finite Element based software product DEFORM™.  Please visit www.deform.com for more details.  Ph.D in Engineering with strong background in mechanics, and/or manufacturing processes, and programming experience (FORTRAN under Windows or UNIX environment), and excellent problem solving skills are highly desirable.

crack tip closure concept

Submitted by uni_students2009 on

measurment of FCG based on crack tip closure concept depend on :

1- experimental technique

2-location of the measurement

3- mean stress effect on FG at high stress ratio can not be explained by the closure model due to the absense of the crack closure at high loads.

Two question can be investigated as follows:

1- why crack tip closure is popular and it widely use in hightech industry like aircraft industry acording to overwiew of scentific articles.?

A Different Kind of a Book Involving Electromagnetism and Potential Theory

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

Unlike other blog-posts of mine, I am not going "own" this particular thread. By that, I mean to say: I am going to only begin this thread and immediately turn it over to you completely. I am not going to watch over whether the discussion here continues to stick to its main theme or not, whether it slides into some minor side issues, whether it deserts the main theme altogether, etc., the way I usually do.



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This thread is meant to be about the following book: