A fundamental improvement to Ericksen-Leslie kinematics
Hossein Pourmatin Amit Acharya Kaushik Dayal
(to appear in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics)
continuum mechanics
Problems with numerical integration of discontinuous functions
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Hi everybody,
I am a very beginnerin doing research :-) and my topic is about "micro indentation analysis using continuum dislocation theory". I am applying high-order finite element method for this nonlinear problem.
Problems with numerical integration of discontinuous functions
Hi everybody,
I am a beginner in doing research :-) and my topic is about "Micro Indentation Analysis using Continuum Dislocation Theory". I am applying high-order finite element method for this nonlinear problem.
Physical Foundations of Continuum Mechanics
After many publications and lecture notes, Prof. Ian Murdoch has finally organized much of that material in the form of a book.
I am very hopeful that like Prof. Murdoch's lectures, this monograph will also help the readers to develop a better understanding of the physical aspects of mechanics. It will be a valuable addition to the researchers' personal collection.
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A new postdoctoral position in the mechanics of glassy/amorphous materials
A new postdoctoral position in the mechanics of glassy/amorphous materials is
available at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The project will focus on
strongly non-linear phenomena such as cavitation, shear-banding and fracture,
with applications to Bulk Metallic Glasses, and will involve advanced
Multiscale Short Course in Aachen in August 2012
Dear Colleague:
An intensive 4-day short course on the fundamentals of continuum, atomistic and multiscale modeling of materials will be held at AICES in Aachen, Germany during August 14-17, 2012. The course will be taught by Profs. Ellad Tadmor and Ronald Miller. Please see the attached flyer for more information.
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Incomplete thoughts on mass flux and superposed RBM
Attached are some (hand-written) observations on wanting to do continuum mechanics when mass is not conserved for fixed sets of particles of the body (so, situations transcending the rocket-losing-mass type). I feel (un)comfortable with these observations, depending upon the day I think about such things.
PhD-Position in Initial Training Network (ITN): FE-Modelling of electromechanically coupled materials
Discover the NANOMOTION World as an Early Stage Researcher (PhD student) in an EU-wide program on “Nanoelectromechanical Motion in Functional Materials (NANOMOTION)”!
The individual project:
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will be hosted at University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), www.uni-due.de/mechanika, with secondment to the University College Dublin (Ireland).