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Professor of Applied Mechanics

With recognitions in textbooks by Meriam-Kraige, Inman, S.S. Rao, Serway-Jewett, Christman, Resnick, Halliday, Walker, Estevez, Steidel, Riley, Honeyk, Gnadig, ...

Editorial Board Physics and Technology Quest, Member American Academy of Mechanics

My newest metamaterial paper: Power loss and electromagnetic energy density in a dispersive metamaterial medium

Phys. Rev. E 80, 046601 (2009) [5 pages]
Power loss and electromagnetic energy density in a dispersive metamaterial medium

Pi-Gang Luan
Wave Engineering Laboratory, Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Jhungli 320, Taiwan

Received 8 March 2009; revised 11 July 2009; published 5 October 2009

fatigue crack growth

Having glanced at the web site I can see that it might be useful to shed some light on fatigue crack growth and crack closure based concepts.

Free Materialise and ANSYS event on Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications

Are you curious to learn more about FEA or CFD simulations on patient-specific data? Then Materialise and ANSYS would like to invite you to their upcoming free seminar on “Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications”, where you will learn how numerical solutions can help the Biomedical and Healthcare industry in the development of innovative solutions.

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Rowland Junior Fellows Program Applications

The following message is from Dr. Frans Spaepen at Harvard University:

Dear colleague,

  I am writing to draw your attention to our annual solicitation for
applications to Rowland Junior Fellows Program, which may be of interest to
your graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

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Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics 

The effects of boron dopings and boron grafts on the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes

The effects of boron doping and boron grafts on the mechanical behaviour of armchair (6, 6)
and zigzag (10, 0) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under axial loading are
investigated using the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method. The results show that
Young’s moduli, the tension strength, the buckling loads and the buckling strains of SWCNTs
decrease after functionalization. The influences of the distribution density of functionalization
on Young’s moduli of SWCNTs are also systematically studied. The results show that Young’s

Internship available in FEA of elastomers

Internship Announcement  

Title : FEA of Elastomers

Category: Internship in Industry

Employer: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Location: Sugar Land, TX, USA

Starting Date: 01/01/2010

Tsai-Wu FC

Good evening,

in the order to perfom a calculation of Tsai-Wu Fc in Ansys there are two fundamentally different methods:
1. with the help of nodal stresses.
2. or with the stresses from the element table.

I want to know what is the difference, and which method, according to your experience is the best.

Thank you very much!

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Embryonic stem cell softness dictates stress-induced spreading and differentiation

We recently find that embryonic stem cells are very sensitive to a local cyclic stress applied to the focal adhesion.  They spread and differentiate (Oct3/4 downregulation) in response to this local force.

Umat-Help-Progressive Damage modeling

Hiii All,

 I am writing an umat for Progressive Damage modeling for 3d Composites.

  when I am compiling my Umat i got an error which says

The executable /raid/software/64/abaqus/6.8-1/exec/standard.exe
aborted with system error "Illegal floating point operation" (signal 8).

I checked out my code many times but i dont find any wrong,Can any one please help me out to resolve this issue.

If some one needs my subroutine file i can send it to them provided te email address

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Twitter and iMechanica

How many iMechanica users are on Twitter?  And how many are on Twitter with professional contacts? 

 I started to use Twitter about 4 months ago in a completely social, non-professional context.  As a personal (expat-focussed) blogger, I started to notice that I was
catching blog posts in my Twitter feed before I would see them in my
feed aggregator (Bloglines).   Twitter has emerged as a different sort
of feed aggregator, as well as a provider of information. 

Effective strain rate and strain rate in ABAQUS subrotine

Hi there,

would you please tell me how can I use or calculate the effective strain rate or strain rate in ABAQUS subrotine?

 thank you!

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Plasticity and elasticity questions

 Dear AllI has question about these stresses.1.Are deviatoric stress generate plastic deformation?2. Are hydrostatic stress generate plastic deformation?3.What is the advantage of transferring strain tenser orientation to the principle coordinate axes? 4. What is the difference between rupture and fracture stress?

Particle size and debonding stress

Hi everybody,

do you know where I can find some informations about the relation

between particle size and critical normal stress at the interface particle /matrix

for a particle embedded in a matrix?

I read the Chen's article 'Size effect of particles on the damage dissipation in nanocomposites'

but this article deals with spherical particles. I am studying clay/matrix nanocomposites and I would like to

calculate the relation between clay size and debonding stress.

Cecilia

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Mini-Symposium on Electro-Active Materials at WCCM IX

Dear Colleagues,

We like to draw your attention to the mini-symposium

MS6043 - Computational Mechanics of Electro-Active Materials

organized by Prof. Ellen Kuhl, Prof. Andreas Menzel and myself in the
WCCM IX. The abstract outlining the objectives of this integrative
mini-symposium is enclosed to this post as plain text and also as a
pdf-attachment.

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2009 Symposium on Piezoelectricity, Acoustic Waves and Device Applications, Wuhan, China on Dec 17-20

Website:http://piezo.hust.edu.cn/spawda09 Papers can be in Chinese or English   The deadline for abstract submission to the Joint Conference of the 2009 Symposium on Piezoelectricity, Acoustic Waves and Device Applications and China Symposium on Frequency Control Technology (Spawda 09) has been extended to October 30, 2009. The conference information can be found at http://piezo.hust.edu.cn/spawda09.

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Call for Abaqus Papers for 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference (RI)

Call for Abaqus Papers for 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference (RI)

Abstracts due Monday, November 9, 2009!

More Information at: http://www.simulia.com/events/conf_10_call_for_papers.html 

Help For learning Abaqus

Hi dears

Would you help me about Abaqus learning?

As I search in diffrent web pages and data base 

there is not  enough refrences about abaqus tutorials 

so How can I learn it as a begining user?

thanks for your help

good luck

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