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Does anyone know of a simple book, approximately 50 pages or so, for plasticity?. I am looking for something that is similar to Morton Gurtin's "Topics in Finite Elasticty" published by SIAM. This book is an uncluttered treatment of finite deformation elasticity and was very useful for me during graduate work. I am NOT looking for 200-300 page texts, becasue I will never get around to reading them.

-Amit

Elastic dielectrics, slides for a short tutorial

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 12:33

Rob Wood teaches a course on micro/nano robotics, and asks me to give a 30-minute tutorial on the theory of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). I attach my slides, which might be useful to you if you'd like to include this topic in your class. The tutorial draws upon work in the literature, as well as recent work in my group:

Graduate Research Supplements (GRS) to Current ENG Awards to Broaden Participation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 03/22/2008 - 11:47

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NSF

proposal

(This message was sent to iMechanica by Ken Chong, of the National Science Foundation). This letter is to call your attention to an opportunity to broaden participation particularly of underrepresented students in Ph.D. programs in engineering through supplements to current research grants funded by the divisions in the Directorate for Engineering (ENG) at the National Science Foundation.

3D fracture analysis using Ansys

Submitted by aerovijay112 on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 07:55

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hi,

i m vijay doing M.TECH in aerospace, i m doing project in the area of fracture mechanics using Ansys, so i need to find Energy release release rate for 3D plate (composite plate having cracks on thikness). i want material related to this, can anyone plz send the material.

thanks in advance

tutorial for hot deep drawing simulation

Submitted by pl meena on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 08:59

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I am final year student , doing my project on "hot deep drwing on non-ferrous materials" and doing simulation on abaqus . I need a tutorial ,,,,,,,,,,,please some one help

K value calculation in Ansys

Submitted by Gagandeep Singh on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 17:14

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I am trying to calculate K values for a double tip crack orientated at 45 deg in a rectangular plate in ansys.I am stuck with a strange problem. When i give the Kcal command it says the crack face is not parallel to the active x axis. But i have checked the cordinates of the keypoints that i have used to create the crack. The crack is perfectly symetric about the active cordinate system about the crack tip.Can somebody help me please.

Abaqus/CAE version 6.6

Submitted by Pascal Yee on Sat, 03/08/2008 - 08:43

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Dear all,

For my final year project, I've done the 3D model of a test fixture which is used for the compression testing of a specimen.

When I apply a downward vertical displacement to top Slider B, eventually the 2-slider linkage mechanism will cause the bottom Slider A to move horizontally and to compress the cube shaped specimen.