"Defects and Microstructure at the Nanoscale and Beyond," Mini-symposium at USNCCM-10, July 16-19, 2009
There will be a mini-symposium entitled "Defects and Microstructure at the Nanoscale and Beyond," at the USNCCM-10 conference in Columbus, OH, July 16 -19, 2009. This topic is of keen interest to the I-Mechanica community and we hope many of you will join us there. Our goal is to bring together researchers from the mechanics, materials, and physics communities to cross-fertilize research on defect-mediated processes in microstructural evolution, with a focus on both hard and soft materials.
International Journal of Novel Materials
A new journal in Materials Engineering, with emphasis on mechanical properties, will be launched this year.
The home page is at:
http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=438
Author instruction can be found at:
http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=438&dtype=1&jtype=
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Modelling wind resonance in turbines (linear)
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Hello! I am a mechanical engineering student and I chose an aspect of a dynamical system exhibiting resonance to model. The focus of the project is on the resonant response of the system.
USNCCM-10: Ab initio and intermediate atomistics in computational nanomechanics
10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics
July 16-19, 2009. Columbus, Ohio
Minisymposium 2.2.5 Ab Initio and Intermediate Atomistics in Computational Nanomechanics
Organizers:
Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota
Boris I. Yakobson, Rice University
Journal Club Theme of January 2009: Impetus for Cell Mechanics
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Welcome to the January 2009 issue. This issue addresses the important discussion on cell mechanics. Acute need to study cell mechanics is driven by the fundamental goal of tissue engineering i.e. to make tissue engineered constructs that can mimic the environment for tissue regeneration with a potential to replace the biological functions of damaged organs. There is now worldwide activity in the in vitro regeneration of tissues including nerve, liver, bone, heart valves, blood vessels, and kidney.
Compiling and Building TAUCS a library of sparse linear solvers
I would like to share the following information to all the iMechanica users interested in using TAUCS a library of sparse linear solvers. TAUCS is among the most used libraries of sparse linear solvers and, to my knowledge, its closest equivalent library is SuperLU. For your reference, TAUCS is used in the commercial software Mathematica by Wolfram Research. Its source code can be downloaded from
Bending Stiffness of Twisted Beams
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I was looking to analytically obtain the local bending stiffness of a uniform selender beam which has been twisted along the longitudinal axis (please note that the beam is not 'pre-twisted', i.e, it not twisted in its unstressed state). The exact problem statement is written below. I would be extremely grateful if I can get directions on how to approach the problem or references where such a problem is addressed. Thank you very much!
Problem statement: