Zahir Warsi, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University passed away on December 3, 2008.

Author of Fluid Dynamics:  Theoretical and Computational Approach (CRC Press), eminent scholar and scientist, his obituary can be found on the website of the American Academy of Mechanics:

http://www.aamech.org/obituary.html.

We know from fracture mechanics theories that fracture instability in a perfectly brittle material occurs when energy release rate (G) becomes equal or more than two times the surface energy (γ) of that material. The value of G = 2γ is known as fracture toughness Gc. This is the classical Griffith criteria of brittle fracture. Experimentally, however, we know that plasticity becomes eminent for most materials and this criteria does not work.

I would like to know whether any works have been done in EFGM which suggest the best points in the domain where the stresses have to be computed, like in FEM we do have Gauss points which give minimum error for secondary variables. So can any one please suggest some references in this regard?

The notes on finite deformation have been divided into two parts: special cases and general theory (node/538). In class I start with special cases, and then sketch the general theory. But the two parts can be read in any order.

Hi Friends

I want to share some of our recent research work on the stress induced phase transformation of CuZr nanowire which is published in Materials Letters.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2009.02.064

Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 September 2009. Symposium 12: Computational Mechanics for Solid Materials and Structures

Classical plasticity models evolve state variables in a spatially independent manner through (local) ordinary differen- 

tial equations, such as in the update of the rotation field in crystal plasticity. A continuity condition is derived for the 

lattice rotation field from a conservation law for Burgers vector content—a consequence of an averaged field theory 

of dislocation mechanics. This results in a nonlocal evolution equation for the lattice rotation field. The continuity 

Hello,

If you can read Chinese, you can visit my Chinese Blogs as follows.

http://www.blogtw.com/blog.php?user=pgluan

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/pgluan2005/

Besides, I and my colleague (Prof. chen) published a Photonic Crystal book: "Photonic Crystals -- From butterfly wings to nanophotonics" in 2005.

This post is in response to the imechanica request

node/5034

 (a separate post, as I have to attach notes - it would be really nice to be able to attach documents to imechanica comments)

 Attached are hand-written notes I have used to implement the Network B for the Bergstrom-Boyce model. They were written for my use only, so if it seems stream-of-consciousness at times, don't blame me. The details should all be there, though.