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Lecture notes on "Elasticity" and "Statistical Mechanics"

Submitted by Cai Wei on

The lecture notes of the two courses I taught at Stanford University during the last two quarters, "ME 340 Elasticity" and "ME 334 Introduction to Statistical Mechanics", are available in PDF format online at:



  http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me340/



  http://micro.stanford.edu/~caiwei/me334/

Perhaps it could be useful to you.

A crucial text from Jim Rice of his Timoshenko's medal speach.

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on



It is difficult to reminisce over my own formative years without sensing

the sharp contrast with the far more difficult situation faced by the

young generation today. My generation, and especially my own narrow age

range within that generation, had things easier, I think, than any group

before or after. I entered Lehigh for undergraduate studies one year

after Sputnik. It was a time when support for science and engineering

was enlarging fast, when opportunities were abundant. There were plenty

Web 2.0 and Medicine

Submitted by MichelleLOyen on

I stumbled across this interesting blog post yesterday concerning an upcoming course on medicine via web 2.0.   It appeared quite interesting from several perspectives: first, medicine is often associated with being behind the times on technology but this all looks pretty current, secondly it may be the most comprehensive listing of topics I have seen where web 2.0 is applied to a single discipline, and finally it made me wonder what more we could do with mechanics via web 2.0 beyon

Professor Zhigang will give lectures at Tongji University, Shanghai China

Submitted by zhan-sheng guo on

from the prof. Ying Dai:

Prof. Zhigang will give two lectures on 1:45pm, 29 May, 2008 at Tongji University, Shanghai China.

Position is the second floor meeting room of Run Run Shaw building.

 1. from Learning Harvard University to The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of American

2.  Mechanics of Soft Active Materials

Composite Modelling in Abaqus

Submitted by tyvan07 on

Hello,

 Pardon my basic question.  I need to model a carbon fibre sheet using Abaqus 6.7.  I cannot seem to get the composite layup tool to work properly and I do not know how to define the material properties for carbon fibre.  Are there any good online turorials I can use to do this?  My part will be 8-ply, 125mm square, ~1mm thinck.  Any help is appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

Tyler

Mechanics of Soft Active Materials

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

At the invitation of David Clarke on behalf of the UCSB/Los Alamos Institute of Multiscale Materials and Structures, I gave the following three lectures:

  1. Large deformation and instability in dielectric elastomers
  2. Large deformation and instability in swelling polymeric gels
  3. Mechanics and electrochemistry of polyelectrolyte gels

The abstracts follow, and the slides are attached at the end of this post.