Prof. Zhigang Suo to present Robert Henry Thurston Lecture at ASME IMECE 2012
Robert Henry Thurston Lecture
10:00am- 12 noon, Monday, November 12
Zhigang Suo, Harvard University
Presentation Title: Soft Materials and Soft Machines
Summer School on Advances in Finite Element Methods
The Summer School on Advances in Finite Element Methods will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 14-18 Jan 2013.
The website www.fesummerschool.co.za contains details such as registration, accommodation, lecturers and the schedule.
The website www.fesummerschool.co.za contains details such as registration, accommodation, lecturers and the schedule.
The objective of this summer school is first, to provide the necessary background in the mathematics of finite elements, and second, to build on this background by addressing the topics of adaptivity and discontinuous Galerkin methods.
Topic 11: Why is the FAR and SIR measures of fatality considered poor measures from the organisation perpective.
Discuss why the FAR and SIR measures of fatality rate in an organization perpective is considered a poor measure of assessment of fataliy rates within the organisation.
Postdoc positions in Computational Chemistry/Computational Materials
Two postdoctoral positions in Computational Chemistry/Materials are to be filled in the group of Peter Kroll in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UT Arlington, Arlington, TX. The position is available immedeately and should be filled until January 2013.
Efficient preconditioner for Augmented Lagrangian
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Hi folks !
I have a question which is more mathematical than mechanical. However since it is to solve mechanical problem, one of you may have an answer !
I want to solve a non-linear problem with non-linear equality constrains and I'm using a augmented Lagrangian with a penalty regularization term that, as well known, spoils the condition number of my linearized systems (at each Newton iteration I mean). The bigger the penalty term, the worse the condition number is. Would someone know an efficient way to get rid of this bad conditioning in that specific case ?
Help: calculate elasticity tensor for hyperelastic material with plane stress configuration
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Dear all,
I am confused with the calculation of elasticity tensor of hyperelastic material in plane stress configuration. Your helps are very much appreciated. Below is my question:
Incompressible strain energy function is expressed as, saying, U=***+p(J-1).
Therefore, the second piola-kirchhoff stress is: S=***+pC^-1 (the Lagrange muliplier p is treated as an arbitrary constant here, right?).
Using the plane stress condition, S<33>=0 so that p is updated as a function of deformation.
Continuum Modeling of Nonlinear Vibration of Graphene Resonators and Graphene-Based Mass Detection
We have employed continuum elastic model such as plate model for understanding the nonlinear vibration behavior of monolayer graphene and graphene resonator-based mass sensing. This work was published in Nanoscale Research Letters (Vol. 7, Art No. 499, 2012).
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ASME Applied Mechanics Division Call for Award Nominations
The Applied Mechanics Division seeks nominations for the awards listed below. All awards are international. Each nomination should include a nomination form and 4-5 letters of support, as described at http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/SocietyAwards/Nominate.cfm.
Anomalous phonon behavior of carbon nanotubes: First-order influence of external load
Here is our recent paper published in Journal of Applied Physics
Title: "Anomalous phonon behavior of carbon nanotubes: First-order influence of external load"
Authors: Amin Aghaei, Kaushik Dayal, Ryan S Elliott
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