Xiaodong Li, of the University of South Carolina, has graciously agreed to be a new Editor of the iMechanica Journal Club. iMechanica has now over 20,000 registered users. Xiaodong is one of the earliest active users (user number 48), and has played a large role in shaping the development of iMechanica. He has been advocating for strong participation from experimentalists, and for highlighting significant applications of mechanics.
We welcome applications for an Ellen William Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Article citation: Miguel Piñeirua, Soft Matter, 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00004c
Capillary origami controlled by an electric field
Miguel Piñeirua, José Bico and Benoît Roman
Following our recent article on this new method, we are making our Matlab routines available. The package contains standard DIC, SSDIC, plus a few extras. More info here
“Subset Splitting Digital Image Correlation” (SSDIC) is based on DIC, but in addition SSDIC can capture displacement discontinuities near shear bands or cracks, where standard DIC fails.
We are looking for suitable candidates for a PhD research work in Computational Mechanics and numerical simulation, to be carried out at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal, in one of the following areas:
- development of new finite elements for metal forming applications;
- numerical simulation of metal forming (sheet and bulk forming);
- tubular hydroforming numerical simulation;
- structural stability and buckling analysis of reinforced aircraft panels;
ICoBT 2011 is a new conference which will be held at Imperial College London from 18-21 September 2011. Contributions are welcomed from scientists, engineers and clinicians working in the fields of orthopaedic surgery, dentistry, biomechanics, biomaterials, cosmetic chemistry, biophysics and biomimetics. Abstract submissions are now open!
I am trying to simulate the long term behaviour of the PBT (polybutyelene terephtalate) thermoplastic.
The mesh and initial stress distribution data (after ejection from the mold) were exported from Moldflow commercial program as Abaqus input (*inp) file. By default, I have already got a fist step of the simulation (linear elastic properties of polymer). What I actually need now is to simulate the long-term performance (for example in the interval of hundreds or thousands hours). It means that the real time scale is of the utmost importance for the analysis.
