A recent paper about friction laws at the nanoscale
A very recent paper published a few minutes ago in Nature addresses the issue of friction laws at the nanoscale. Here is the abstract of the paper.Interested? here you can download the paper.
ASME Congress 09 on the Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposite Materials
You are invited to present your research work on the mechanical behavior of nanocomposite materials (Nov. 13-19, 2009 in Florida, close to Disney World). This topic will be focused on systematic mechanics experiments, modeling and simulations to solve new challenging mechanics problems such the effect of nanofiller agglomeration on the stiffness and strength reduction; interfacial stress transferring and interface strength evaluation at the nanoscale. Deadline for abstract submission is March 17, 2009.
An article on tenure-track
Stop Trying To Get Tenure and Start Trying To Enjoy Yourself
One of my junior colleagues forwarded the above article to me, and I read with interest. I think it could also resonate the interest of many people here in iMechanica. I welcome your comments, especially from our been-there done-that tenured colleagues.
Modelling with FEMDEM _ Workshop to Launch VGW, Imperial College London, 30th March '09
From Dr John-Paul Latham
Dear colleague
Computational Mechanics
Chair in Computational Mechanics
School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering
Closing date: 17/04/2009
Who said it first?
Forums
Okay, I have used this quote a lot and have probably misattributed it. Who first said, "All models are wrong. Some models are useful."?
VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESS
VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING, October 14-16, Porto, Portugal - www.fe.up.pt/vipimage
Dear Colleague,
We are glad to announce the International Conference VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING will be held in the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, on October 14-16, 2009.
How about COSMOL in multiphysics (FEA + circuit co-simulation)?
Hi, all
Is there any guy try to do system-level simulation combining FEA and circuit analysis in any multi-physics softwares? I want to simulate the energy harvesting from piezoelectric material, through some diodes and into capacitor. Abaqus only can give voltage. Ansys has some electric elements but some non-linear element such as diode is not compatible with piezoelectric element. Any body know about whether COSMOL can do this simulation job?
Thanks,
Energy Balance while doing impact analysis
I am doing an impact analysis in LS-Dyna . When I include failure strain data I am not able to get the energy balance in GLSTAT . So I tracked it using MATSUM . But there is huge difference in the energy input and energy output. SO I ran the same without failurestrains. Here I got the energy balance. Can somebody let me know whether there is some issue in my postprocessing the results while using failure strain?
PhD position FEM simulation of machining in Braunschweig, Germany
Within the
7th Research Framework Programme of the EU (FP7),
The project "Macro, Micro and Nano Aspects of Machining - MAMINA"
offers a three-year PhD project
named
"Finite Element Simulation of the Cutting Process"
at the Institut für Werkstoffe, Technische Universität Braunschweig.
Within the PhD-project Finite Element Simulation of the Cutting
Process (ESR 2) the cutting process will be simulated using finite
elements. Different models will be developed and the material