Postdoc on Isogeometric Analysis at the University of Pavia
Applications are invited for a Post-Doctoral position in Isogeometric Analysis at the University of Pavia.
international Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials IX, 16-21 September 2012
The ninth biennial International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials IX will be held in scenic Cape Cod at The Resort and Conference Center at Hyannis, Massachusetts from the 16 - 21 September 2012.
Register today to book your place at this prestigious conference, which has attracted over 290 abstracts. The conference will bring together delegates from around the world to discuss how to characterize, predict and analyse the fatigue damage of structural materials.
Immediate opening for a Ph.D. student in computational mechanics and materials at Missouri University of Science and Technology
There is an immediate opening for a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T - formerly University of Missouri-Rolla). The Metallurgical Engineering program at Missouri S&T is one of the largest and most respected in the U.S. (http://mse.mst.edu).
The Ph.D. research project is about developing a coupled phase-field crystal plasticity model for predicting stress-strain-microstructures relations during deformation.
stress relaxation- doubt
Attached herewith a classical paper by Hart on introducing a concept of constant hardness curves refuting that absolute strain should not be considered as a state variable.
The interesting part is he uses a stress relaxation test to prove the same. Stress relaxation test, here refers to a tensile test, where the test is stopped after say certain amount of plastic deformation. The stress drops a little, but the total strain is constant. However, it is argued that there is a small inelastic deformation, which is the cause of this load or stress drop.
[FEM] How we are using shell geometry properties in time of calculation?
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I'm interested in methods and approaches for FEM, that are used for taking into account the shell geometry properties (curvatures, quadratic forms) in time of calculation. I'm not telling about NURBS, the shells are defyned by analytical expressions: sphere, Monge surfaces, Joachimstahl surface. In Zienkewich book they are use the flat elements, but in time of calculation they don't use the shell geometry, only for mesh generation. Maybe someone somehow have used in shape functions the coefficients of quadratic forms...
New book on "Damage and Failure of Composite Materials"
New book on Damage and Failure in Composite Materials written by Prof. Ramesh Talreja (Texas A&M Univ.) and Prof. Chandra Veer Singh (Univ. of Toronto)
Publishers: Cambridge University Press.
1 PhD student position for biophysics and tribology of mucin/mucus gels
1 PhD student position is open in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MEK), Technical University of Denmark (DTU).