using iMechanica in teaching Engineering Mechanics
Why iMechanica?
iMechanica is an appropriate website for teaching/learning Engineering Mechanics for the following reasons:
education
Another "straightforward" calculation
Following Andy's recommendation I have been reading Ellis Dill's Continuum Mechanics[1]. In page 75 of the book, we find the
well known result that the constitutive equation for an isotropic hypoelastic
material can be derived from a stored energy function only if
where and are the Lame constants.
The efficiency of turbines
Hello students (and also others) at iMechanica,
Last weekend, while channel browsing on TV, I happened to notice a documentary on the Hoover dam (in the US). It showed a number of jets of water, huge ones, forcefully springing forth out of the rock faces just downstream of the dam. These were the water jets coming off the electricity generation plant of the dam, *after* their job of generating electricity was already over.
Graduate students and publishing
I just stumbled on this very interesting discussion on why science graduate students should publish, regardless of their later career intentions. I agree with the author on most points, but believe it really comes down to two things: (1) if you aren't going to communicate your results (both good and bad!) then you might as well have not bothered to do the work, and (2) becoming a good writer is a skill that every technical person will need in any career.
modelling of friction welding process using abaqus
I am a postgraduate student studying in india.I am doing my project in friction welding . I have to create a finite element model of friction welding process and then simulate it to get the shortening distance.I am new to ABAQUS so help me by sening the procedure for creating a finite element model of friction welding process and then simulating it .
My E-mail address is
VENKAT_DSK84 [at] YAHOO.CO.IN (VENKAT_DSK84[at]YAHOO[dot]CO[dot]IN)
Theoretical Notes (ALE)
Hello,
I need some detailed informations about topics below:
Single material ALE
-Advection schemes
-Mesh smoothing algorithms
Multi-material ALE
-Volume fraction weighted stress
-Interface reconstruction
-Moving mesh techniques
FSI
-Constraint based method
-Penalty based method
-Leakage
Can anybody help me?
Thanks alot
MACE-11010 Engineering Mechanics
You are always welcome to visit my office (B14/Pariser), call (0161 306 8970), or email (henry.tan [at] manchester.ac.uk (henry[dot]tan[at]manchester[dot]ac[dot]uk)).