Rather than scratching heads when faced with a seemingly impossible contradiction in a job, engineers could do worse than apply the Triz theory.
There has been quite a buzz around Triz, the Russian theory of problem solving, for some time. Since it was fully refined in the mid-1980s its use has been slowly spreading as word gets round, much like the increasing popularity of a political movement.
Applied Mechanics Division Banquet, Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, Washington, November 13th, 2007.
我国著名力学家、中国力学学会原常务理事、甘肃省力学学会原理事长、甘肃省政协原常委
、甘肃省科协原常委、兰州大学力学专业和学科的创始人、兰州大学力学系首任主任、名誉
主任叶开沅先生因病医治无效，于2007年10月20日15时30分在北京不幸逝世，享年82岁。
叶开沅，男，汉族，1926年5月19日出生于浙江省衢州市。1938年至1943年，在浙江省
立衢州中学学习。1944年，到北京灯市口育英中学学习。1945年考入北京大学土木工程系，
旋即转入燕京大学数学系学习。1946年，进入唐山工程学院学习，1947年转入清华大学电机
An updated Call for Nominations for the awards administered by the Applied Mechanics Division has been posted on the AMD website. Please nominate worthy candidates to these awards.
A new award, named the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award will be awarded for the first time in 2008. In addition, the Applied Mechanics Division Award and the Young Investigator Award have been endowed by the friends of Ted Belytschko and Thomas J.R. Hughes respectively.
The governor of Virginia has asked President Bush to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who died trying to save his students during the mass killings at Virginia Tech. Read more.
Dear Freinds,
I need help to develop a boundary element code for FRACTURE Mechanics applications (for Isotropic & Laminated structures).
Greetings iMechanicans
I've been struggling with a optics project for almost 3 years. I say struggle because my lack of a formal physics education leaves an accurate hypothesis out of my reach. I understand solid-state physics, as well as electromagnetic wave theory from my 40+ years of experience and research in these fields.
I hope to spark the mind(s) of anyone who could possibly explain an optomagnetic anomaly that results from this simple Superparamagnetic event that I've created.
Should I leave and try to find the answer elsewhere?
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Dusan Krajcinovic, retired professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University, passed away on August 10, 2007, after a long illness. Dusan was active in the mechanics community. In addition to his teaching and research activities, he was a past member and chair of the Applied Mechanics Divison of ASME. He also served a term on the U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He authored the book Damage Mechanics published by North-Holland in 1996. He will be missed by all those who knew him.
