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ASME AMD Committee on Fluid-Structure Interaction is Sponsoring 6 Mini-symposia at IMECE 2008

Submitted by Tayfun E. Tezduyar on
conference

In December 2006 the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) Executive Committee approved a new technical committee, Committee on Fluid-Structure Interaction (CFSI). The CFSI is sponsoring 6 mini-symposia within Track 12 "Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids" of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, in Boston, October 31 - November 6, 2008. These 6 mini-symposia will have a total of 17 sessions and are titled:

Entropic rigidity of a crumpling network in a randomly folded thin sheet

Submitted by Balankin on
research
Forced folding
Entropic elasticity

We have studied experimentally and theoretically the response of randomly folded hyperelastic and elastoplastic sheets on the uniaxial compression loading and the statistical properties of crumpling networks. The results of these studies reveal that the mechanical behavior of randomly folded sheets in the one-dimensional stress state is governed by the shape dependence of the crumpling network entropy.

Early-bird registration for the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
conference
asme

The deadline for early-bird registration, with a $50 saving, is 28 August 2008.  Please consider to register for the Applied Mechanics Division Honors & Awards Banquet to meet your friends, and to congratulate the winners. 

PhD Scholarship in Computational Mechanics at the University of Sydney, Australia

Submitted by Luming Shen on
job
One J.W. and I.C.M. Roderick scholarship (Stipend + Tuition if applicable) is available for a suitably qualified student with an Honours degree (or equivalent) in Engineering to undertake full time research leading to a PhD degree in the School of Civil Engineering.



Crack creation problem - FRANC3D with ABAQUS

Submitted by satyasrinivas on
curved crack

I am trying to develop a model in ABAQUS and perform crack analysis using FRANC3D. I am having a problem right at the beginning.

I am able to create the model in ABAQUS and write the .inp file. I open this file in FRANC3D and am trying to insert a curved crack. I repeat a 'curved crack'. The crack is not planar. When I try to define the crack front using 'user defined points', the software is approximating all the points I enter to a best-fit 'plane'. So it is generating a planar crack when i wanta curved crack.

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