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  I have few questions here :  

The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing a symposium on Multifunctional Material Systems at IMECE2010 to be held in Vancouver, Canada, during Nov. 12-18, 2010.

Tentative abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2010

I have always, and I believe correctly, considered cohesize/bridging models linear elasticity. This is because whether we apply them to holes or cracks, we are solving the equations of ELASTICITY, with nonlinear boundary conditions along the part(s) of the crack along which a traction-separation law is applied. So the material model is totally elastic. All we did was to augment the elasticity theory with an ad hoc physical condition (inspired by experiments such as Dugdale).

Difference bewteen Von mises and Tresca stress citerion. Any good references?

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I would like to simulate fatigue analysis to know the fatigue life, can any one guide me to do the same. and please specify which package suits for the same.

Thanks

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The Research Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for two open positions as Post-doctoral Fellow. The specific projects involve (i) the characterization of the constitutive and failure behavior of structural materials (aluminum alloys, steels, titanium alloys and other selected materials) under quasi-static and dynamic conditions, and (ii) the characterizaation and modeling of the dynamic response of metal-matrix composites. These positions are available immediately.

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I am woking on an optimization problem. In this optimization problem I want to use Matlab and ANSYS.  In which MATLAB  initiating the optimization problem, and  send input values to ANSYS, then ANSYS find some results and send it to Matlab...then continue the optimization process.

Can any one help me to do these comunications between Matlab and ANSYS?

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International Journal of Structural Changes in Solids

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Nature Nanotechnology, Feb. 14, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2010.4, Yang Lu, Jian Yu Huang, Chao Wang, Shouheng Sun and Jun Lou

I am looking for stress and displacement fields for indentation of an elastic half-space with a rigid spherical indenter. Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps provides closed form expressions (no derivations) for stress fields in his textbook "Introduction to Contact Mechanics" (Chapter 5, Page 88-89). He cites the work of M.T. Huber[1] which is in German (Annalen der Physik, 1904).