fracture

Phase-field modeling of the coupled microstructure and fracture evolution in ferroelectric single crystals

Submitted by Amir Abdollahi on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 19:33

research

fracture

phase field modelling

finite element methods

twinning

ferroelectrics

Damage tolerance of railway axles

Submitted by S. Beretta on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 09:07

Failure of railway axles has been the problem which gave origin to the studies about 'fatigue'. The modern approach to the structural integrity of these safety components is to complement the traditional designwith a 'damage toleranc' analysis.

Virtual Testing of Structural Integrity in Microelectronic Assemblies

Submitted by shirangi on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 09:54

6th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives - Author registration deadline 25 February

Submitted by Laure Ballu on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 10:32

To register, go to www.tc4pca.elsevier.com

Registration now open for the 6th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives

Submitted by Laure Ballu on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 11:38

Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland 11-15 September 2011

For more information, go to www.tc4pca.elsevier.com

Postdoc research associate and PhD student positions available

Submitted by Yongming Liu on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 21:30

job

fracture

computational mechanics

Fatigue

probabilistic methods

One postdoc and several PhD student positions are available at Clarkson University. Research background in at least one of the following areas is preferred.

1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures, computational mechanics and numerical methods

2. Probabilistic methods, Bayesian statistics, reliability and risk assesment

3. Structural dynamics, health monitoring, signal processing, system identification

A blog for discussing fracture papers

Submitted by ESIS on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 11:03

The aim of ESIS is not only to develop and extend knowledge in all aspects of structural integrity, but also to disseminate this knowledge world-wide by means of scientific publications and to educate young engineers and scientists.

A free program to generate interface elements in an existing FE mesh

Submitted by phunguyen on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 14:10

software

fracture

delamination

zero thickness interface element

Hello all,

Last year when I started implementing interface elements to model material failure, I realized that the formulation is easy except how to generate a mesh with interface elements. I did a googling to search for such a free program. Amazingly, I did not find any although there are many researchers working on the fracture mechanics field.

So, I wrote a small object-oriented C++ program which reads a FE mesh, duplicates nodes and insert interface elements where asked. The program is able to