The Nanobiophysics laboratory (Prof. Chaieb) in collaboration with the DNA replication laboratory (Prof. Hamdan) at the division of life science and engineering at KAUST invites
applications for immediate openings for a joint postdoctoral fellow
position between the two aforementioned lab although the primary position is at the Nanobophysics laboratory. The research is expected to
Description
Stamping simulation, as are all the highly nonlinear mechanical
models, is ravenous in computational resources. Thus, when performing
shape or parameter optimization of a single or /a fortiori/ multiple
criteria related to the stamping process, one has to save as many as
possible computer evaluations of the solution fields, which prohibits a
naive use of classical zero-order algorithms beit deterministic or
probabilistic.
Description
The limited availability of mineral resources has led to the need for High Performance Material (Steel, Aluminium, Alloys,…).
These advanced materials are used to design lighter and stronger
structures, which result in a lower consumption of energy if one thinks
of the correlation between the weight and fuel consumption e.g. in the
automotive and aerospace industry.
For everyone who missed it, here is Erik Schlangen's inspiring talk on self-healing asphalt: http://collegerama.tudelft.nl/Mediasite/Play/082d74bbb0784c09854297f0e2… (starts about 02:28).
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Calvin W. Rice Lecture
9:45am- 11:00am, Tuesday, November 13
Wei Yang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Presentation Title: Dynamic Growth of Research Universities in China
Robert Henry Thurston Lecture
10:00am- 12 noon, Monday, November 12
Zhigang Suo, Harvard University
Presentation Title: Soft Materials and Soft Machines
Discuss why the FAR and SIR measures of fatality rate in an organization perpective is considered a poor measure of assessment of fataliy rates within the organisation.
Hi folks !
I have a question which is more mathematical than mechanical. However since it is to solve mechanical problem, one of you may have an answer !
I want to solve a non-linear problem with non-linear equality constrains and I'm using a augmented Lagrangian with a penalty regularization term that, as well known, spoils the condition number of my linearized systems (at each Newton iteration I mean). The bigger the penalty term, the worse the condition number is. Would someone know an efficient way to get rid of this bad conditioning in that specific case ?
