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Essential parameter/properties masonry structure modelling (ABAQUS)

Submitted by Raimy Haidar on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 23:11

hai, im haidar (undergraduate-civil engineering from Malaysia)

Kindly please help me,

currently im working on my thesis which majorly focused on the dynamic analysis of masonry (Concrete Masonry Unit) multistorey building structure,

presently, im modelling the 3 story building (including ground floor) of masonry building with block size of (200x400mm) including 10mm thickness of mortar joint

(macro-modelling) using the ABAQUS program. However, im facing few issues and confusion regarding on masonry modelling:

Postdoctoral Fellow Positions - University of Notre Dame

Submitted by ACMS Notre Dame on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 22:05

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Postdoctoral Fellow Positions: Interdisciplinary Projects between University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania and Argonne National Laboratory

2015 Nanobruecken Nanomechanical Testing Workshop

Submitted by Douglas Stauffer on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 16:13

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and Hysitron, Inc. are pleased to present Nanobrücken 2015: A Nanomechanical Testing Workshop & Hysitron User Meeting, which will take place on April 21-23, 2015 in Potsdam, Germany. Nanobrücken 2015 is the fifth edition of the now-annual Nanobrücken workshop series, having been hosted in both Saarbrücken and Dresden.

The Keynote Speaker for this year's workshop will be Prof. Mathias Göken, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Additive manufacturing --> microstructure-->mechanical response

Submitted by Amit Pandey on Tue, 02/17/2015 - 02:50

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Tensile behavior of selective laser melted Ferritic Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steel was evaluated for the first time and correlated to microstructures.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359645414009732

Global Stiffness Matrix-UEL

Submitted by ashkan khalili on Mon, 02/16/2015 - 22:54

ABAQUS

UEL

GLOBAL STIFFNESS MATRIX

Hi everyone,

I am working in UEL. I can get the stiffness matrix from fortran to be printed in .msg file.How can I print the global stiffness matrix of the model by using ABAQUS. My model is not big or complicated, so the global stiffness matrix shouldn't be too big!
Thanks!

Postdoc Position in Computational Mechanics - Ohio State University

Submitted by soheilsoghrati on Mon, 02/16/2015 - 02:15

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The Automated Computational Mechanics Laboratory (ACML) at The Ohio State University has an immediate opening for a one-year postdoctoral research associate position. The project is aimed at the application of the finite element method for simulating and optimizing the laser ablation process in aircrafts. The optimization process involves characterizing the optimal laser parameters (e.g., peak power, fluence, intensity, etc.) to maximize the coating removal efficiency while minimizing damage to the substrate material.

ASME IMECE 2015 Symposium 12-25: "Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield"

Submitted by Pedro Reis on Sun, 02/15/2015 - 15:57

high temperature polymers

tubular mechanics

drilling

wellbore zonal isolation

Swellable seals

We would like to invite you to give a contributed talk at our symposium on “Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield”, at the ASME IMECE November 13-19, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

Please forward this announcement to others you think may be interested in participating.

12-25 Mechanics and Materials in the Oilfield

Update: Journal Club Entry July 2014: Overcoming Challenges in Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

Submitted by Chris Yakacki on Fri, 02/13/2015 - 23:04

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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers

Active Polymers

Shape Memory Polymers

Dear iMechanica,

Last July I posted a journal club entry on overcoming the traditional challenges in mechanically actuating liquid-crystalline elastomers (http://imechanica.org/node/16853). I'm glad to say we finally got our first manuscript regarding this work published in RSC Advances (DOI: 10.1039/C5RA01039J).

Model for static and kinetic friction (rate and state)

Submitted by Srivatsan Hulikal on Fri, 02/13/2015 - 21:50

We recently proposed a model for rate and state friction by studying the collective (statistical) behavior of viscoelastic asperities. Various observed features of friction emerge as collective phenomena, without postulating them directly at the microscale. The paper is available at the link below.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022509614002063

Thank you.