Call for Minisymposia and Sessions at EM08
If you are a faculty member on the tenure-track or a post-doc it's a good idea to chair a few minisymposia at conferences to buttress your resume. Here's an opportunity for you:
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Interfacial moisture diffusion using cohesive zone elements
Hello every body,
As most of you know, fracture mechanics of polymer materials needs a special consideration of the viscoelastic material properties. Especially under thermomechanical loading the role of glass transition temperature T_g is very important. That is why people try to characterize the material with different methods including stress relaxation based on Time-Temperature superposition or DMA test.
Opening for PhD Student in Computational Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Opening for a PhD student in the area of large scale parallel computing and optimization with applications to high resolution lithography. The research will be a part of the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) at RPI and will make use of one of fastest computers in the world (http://www.rpi.edu/research/ccni/) . The project will be supervised by researchers from RPI, IBM and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI).
I am Looking for job in the fied of CAE
I am mechanical engineer currentely doing Mastars in mecahnical engineering (Design) having 2 years experience in hypermesh and Ansys .
Mail Id is wish.pawar [at] gmail.com (wish[dot]pawar[at]gmail[dot]com)
Naming the SI Unit for Fracture Toughness (KIC)
To: Engineers, Fracture Analysts, Mechanicians, Physicists...
In science and engineering, we have an excellent tradition: naming a physical unit using the name of a prominent personality from the concerned field. For example, in SI system, we measure force in newton, work in joule, power in watt...
But the unit of fracture toughness, i.e. KIC, is too lengthy to pronounce: (mega) pascal-underoot-meter. Further, it has also been in use for something like half a century by now, perhaps more. So, how do you like the idea of giving a name to this unit?
Abaqus ALE
Hi every body,
i am trying to use Abaqus/Explicit to simulate a sharp penetration using ALE formulation included in Ver. 6.6, but what ever i do the remeshing module doesn't work. if any body has any information and experience about this kind of simulation i would be pleased to use it as a guid in my analysis.
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Hassan
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Essays and books on writing well
- G. M. Whitesides, Writing a paper. Advanced Materials 15, 1375-1377, 2004. This three-page essay by a prolific professor at Harvard advocates a process: start writing a paper at the same time you start a research project. Every thinking person should read this essay, and give the process a try.
Idle thoughts on the role of theory in mechanics
As scientists, we like to think our theories are built on a large body of directly observed phenomena, but we can directly observe only a few, primitive things, like the relative position of two objects -- and even that is called into question by modern physics! Instruments that measure abstract quantities like force and temperature depend on the validity of an underlying theory. For example, a scale provides a useful measurement of weight only if we accept a certain definition of weight. Such definitions are objectively arbitrary, because they can only be ranked in terms of usefulness.