Deformation of Halfring
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I work in gas turbine business and I noticed following phenomena so I would like someone helps me to understand.
I noticed that component made as full ring remains circular after load with outer pressure and temperature gradient (Figure 1) and component made as connection of 2 halfrings (Figure 2) deforms as on Figure 3.
Travel Awards for 2007 ASME Congress
The Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation is offering $1,000 travel grants for U.S. graduate students currently enrolled at any U.S. universities or colleges presenting a paper in any field of applied mechanics at the 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition (IMECE) in Seattle, Washington, November 11 – 15, 2007.
Learning to be a PhD advisor
We professors usually start our jobs unprepared. In our days as students, we are considered talented if we can solve problems posed by our professors. We might be even considered brilliant if we can solve them quickly and make a few extensions. After solving a few such problems, we write a thesis. We are then entrusted with a job as a professor. We soon realize that the skill of solving problems posed by others only plays a minor role in our jobs.
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4 billion years evolution in 8 min.
Recently I saw an animation
named “The inner life of the cell”, which was made by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Harvard University Biovision. It can be watched online only:
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