The Twelfth Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) will be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad from January 2 – 6, 2012, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.

 

2 Year PDRA Opportunity in:

I'm pleased to offer applications for a PhD studentship on measurement of strains in vivo in intervertebral discs at the University of Exeter. It will be co-supervised by myself on (the mechanics side) and Dr J Meakin (on the medical imaging side).

Experience with optical strain measurement (eg DIC, virtual fields method etc), reverse engineering problems and/or finite elements would be desirable. Tax free stipend of approx 14.5k GBP, funding only covers registration fees for EU nationals (ie non-EU nationals must find extra funding at circa 9k GBP per year for 3 years)

Can you define FEM in one line?

If yes, what would it be? And, in that case, permit me a second question: How?

...Really interested in knowing what the members of this community think (of this matter), if they do...

--Ajit

[E&OE]

The Mechanics of Solids and Structures – Hierarchical Modeling and the Finite Element Solution

Miguel Luiz Bucalem and Klaus-Jürgen Bathe

 Our main objective in this book is to provide a rational, structured and modern framework for the modeling and analysis of engineering structures.

Luc Tartar and Amit Acharya

Bulletin of the Italian Mathematical Union, (9)IV, 409-444, 2011