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Open position at Teledyne Scientific Company

Submitted by osudre on

Teledyne Scientific Company announces the opening of a new position at its Thousand Oaks, California facility. This position offers you the opportunity to utilize and expand your academic training in mechanical engineering. The position will be associated with Teledyne Scientific Composite Materials group. The group has been for the past 20 years at the forefront of the design and characterization of materials for extreme environments including unique types of high-temperature composites for the aerospace industry.

Theoretical study of magneto-rheological elastomers

Submitted by Prashant Saxena on

I post the links to some of our recently published papers on magneto-elasticity. These are iron-filled elastomers whose mechanical properties can be influenced by the application of a magnetic field. A continuum theory that accounts for magneto-mechanical coupling as well as rate-dependent energy dissipating deformations is presented.

I also attach post-print versions of these articles here. Hopefully, they can be useful for some people working in this field.

Visiting position on fracture mechanics

Submitted by Ji Wang on

A colleague of mine wants to find a visiting position on research of fracture mechanics of metals.  His visit is supported by a grant from his institution and he is interested in working with someone on fracture mechanics of metal materials.  Please drop me a line and I shall help you connected.  

Define Varied Global Stiffness for a PLA printed Cylindrical shell in Abaqus

Submitted by Nan Hu on

Hi, all.

We are modeling a cylindrical shell in Abaqus. The cylindrical shell was fabricated with PLA through the 3D printing technology. We did a tensile test and found that the global stiffness along the axial direction and circumferential direction is different. So, we tried to find a better way to model such varied stiffness in the Abaqus model. Any advice on how to define such material in elastic region would be appreciated.

Nan

 

 

Abaqus UEL for coupled diffusion-deformation theory for elastomeric gels

Submitted by shawnchester on

We have a new paper in IJSS that discusses details about Abaqus user elements, in the context of polymer gels, that may be useful to the community. The supplemental material of the paper provides the UEL code, some input files, as well as a short tutorial that should be helpful to others in their own research projects, even if not related to gels.

The link to the files is: http://web.njit.edu/~sac3/Software.html

Invitation for Abstracts: PACAM XV, May 18-21, 2015

Submitted by Oscar Lopez-Pamies on

Dear Colleagues, we cordially invite you to participate in PACAM XV.The Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics XV will be held in Champaign, IL from May 18 to May 21, 2015, under the auspices of the American Academy of Mechanics and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The conference will feature plenary lectures by Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya (California Institute of Technology), Prof.

Call for abstract: USNCCM13 MS304: Concurrent Multi-Length Scale Modeling: from Finite Elements to Atoms and Electrons

Submitted by qing.peng on

We cordially invite you to participate in the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)'s 13thU.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM13) by giving a talk in our minisymposium entitled Multiscale Concurrent Multi-length scale modeling: from Finite Elements to Atoms and Electrons. The Congress will be held in San Diego, California, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, July 26-30, 2015.