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Symposium on New Developments in Defect Mechanics - a unique intellectual event

Submitted by Cai Shengqiang on

Faculty from Caltech, UC Berkeley , University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Brown University, University of Calgary, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College, London, and UCSD and researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories congregated to UCSD  on January 18-19, 2014 to attend the third in a series of symposia on Multiscale Dislocation Dynamics and to honor Professor Michael Ortiz  on his 60th birthday. Faculty also brought their graduate students and postdocs to engage in such a powerful intellectual activity.

Comparing experimental fracture properties and micromechanical (or global-local/multiscale) finite element simulations

Submitted by prathyush963 on

I am interested in developing a global-local finite element model (micro/macro) to simulate flexural testing of a composite material. Flexural loading will be applied on global model (macro) and crack propagation will be simulated in the local model (micro). I want to compare stress intensity factor or any other fracture property obtained from local model (micro) with that of experimental results.

I would appreciate if anyone could suggest some references/literature in this area. Any kind of suggestions would be great!

 Venkata

Microplane modeling of shape memory alloy tubes under tension, torsion, and proportional tension–torsion loading

Submitted by R.Mehrabi on

In this paper, a phenomenological constitutive
model based on microplane model is used to simulate tension, torsion and proportional tension-torsion on NiTi thin-walled tube. Validation of the
microplane model against experimental results in different loading conditions demonstrates
the capability of this approach.
This publication will benefit the numerical and experimental study on SMAs.

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best FEA solver for parallelization

Submitted by cooperrc on
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Hello all,

I am interested in using a finite element software in a supercomputer setting (i.e. bluegene, cray, etc.). Does anyone have experience running finite element solutions on massively parallel supercomputers? What solvers are most amenable to such a task?

 -Ryan

Acta Mechanica Sinica, Vol.30, Issue 1, 2014

Submitted by CSTAM_Journal on

Dear everyone!    

The first issue in 2014 (Volume 30, Issue 1) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is now online.   

Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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whether tetrahedral element properties can be employed to hexhedral elements

Submitted by kishore_cadcam on

Dear sir  at present iam doing meshing in hypermesh i want to know that imeshed a component with tethedral elements iwant to know that whether i can apply the properties of solid 45 element  to these tetrahedral elements

Case Studies in Fire Safety - First papers published! Freely accessible

Submitted by Laure Ballu on

We are delighted to announce the publication of the first papers in Case Studies in Fire Safety. Case Studies in Fire Safety provides an open forum for the rapid publication of short, structured case studies in fire safety and related short communications providing an essential compendium of case studies for fire protection engineers, designers, researchers and other practitioners in the field of fire safety.