In memory of Prof. Bruno Boley, Founding Editor-in-Chief of Mechanics Research Communications (MRC), we made the Special Issue, published in MRC in September 2015, freely available until 13 June 2017.
To read it, go to http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00936413/68
Seeking a Ph.D. student, starting Fall 2017 or Spring 2018, with a background in computational mechanics, finite element modeling, and crash mechanics. Candidates with Masters degrees in CAE fields with prior knowledge of finite element packages such as LS-DYNA or ABAQUS would be preferred.
Any interested candidates should send their detailed CV to Prof. Howie Fang at hfang [at] uncc.edu.
Howie Fang, Ph.D., Professor
Acta Mechanica Sinica (Volume 33, Issue 1, 2017 ) is online now !
Dear everyone!
The first issue in 2017 (Volume 33, Issue 1) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is online now.
Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.
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My latest textbook, O. M. O’Reilly, Modeling Nonlinear Problems in the Mechanics of Strings and Rods, has just been published by Springer Verlag. The electronic version of this book is available (for free if your university's library has a subscription) on this website:
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319505961
We demonstrated outstanding compressibility of holey graphene nanosheets, which is impossible for pristine graphene. Holey graphene powder can be easily compressed into dense and strong monoliths with different shapes at room temperature without using any solvents or binders.
ACS Nano, Article ASAP, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.7b00227
We are looking for highly motivated PhD candidates to study the multiscale cracking in 3D printed glass-polymer composites. The main objectives of the project are to develop a multiscale numerical modeling framework for cracking in PA12/glass beads samples obtained by additive manufacturing (Selective Laser Sintering, SLS) and to combine these numerical tools with experimental 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing techniques to identify the models. The PhD is part of a funded national research project involving several academic institutions and an industrial partner.
When a solid object is stretched, in general, it shrinks transversely. However, the abnormal ones are auxetic, which exhibit lateral expansion, or negative Poisson ratio. While graphene is a paradigm 2D material, surprisingly, graphene converts from normal to auxetic at certain strains. Here, we show via molecular dynamics simulations that the normal-auxeticity mechanical phase transition only occurs in uniaxial tension along the armchair direction or the nearest neighbor direction. Such a characteristic persists at temperatures up to 2400 K.
Dear all,
I have read the article of Yuan and Jacob Fish entitled "Toward realization of computational homogenization in practice" and realize that they have published the source code they used in their paper. Unfortunately, I cannot download the code from the link that the authors provided. I wonder if any of you have downloaded the code before. If so, please kindly share the code to me.
Thanks in advance.
Ken
