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ASME IMECE 2012: Symposium on Quality and Reliability of Electronic/Photonic Packaging, MEMS, and NEMS

Submitted by Frank W. DelRio on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 19:44

Dear Colleagues:

We are currently soliciting abstracts for the 2012 ASME IMECE conference on November 9-15, 2012 in Houston, TX. The symposium is entitled Quality and Reliability of Electronic/Photonic Packaging, MEMS, and NEMS and is part of the Micro- and Nano- Systems Engineering and Packaging Track.

The call-for-papers for the symposium is as follows:

ABAQUS mass properties of a composite layup

Submitted by trkam on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 16:33

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Hi,

modeling a wind turbine blade (using shell elements) in ABAQUS/CAE 6.11-1, i encountered the following problem:

In order to match the structure of a real turbine blade, i created a composite layup consisting of several plies, whose thicknesses are not defined by a constant value but by discrete field distributions (Location: Elements, Type: Scalar). The discrete fields assign a thickness value to each Element ID.

dstl PhD studentship: Electropulsing and nanostructured steels

Submitted by rongshan on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 15:30

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dstl PhD studentship: Electropulsing and nanostructured steels

Imperial College London - Department of Materials

Duration of Studentship: 42 months

Applications are invited for a studentship in the field of electropulse-assistant nano-steel processing, leading to the award of a PhD degree. The post is to conduct research in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London and is supported by an initial bursary of £15,823 p.a. and the tuition fees are paid at the home rate only.

Fundamental FE Question

Submitted by kajalschopra on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 14:31

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Hi,

This is a very fundamental question

I have a mesh of 2D elements

Now, I have been given a point and know its global coordinates.

I want to find out which element in my mesh includes that point.

Is there an easier way of doing it than looping through each element in my mesh?

Please help

Help regarding 3D corotational beam finite element modeling

Submitted by Sunil JYV on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 00:05

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Dear all,

implementing two-crystal shape memory alloy model using UMAT

Submitted by NazBaba on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 22:16

Hi all,

Stent/Artery contact Abaqus Explicit

Submitted by Slimjimmy on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 21:44

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Hi Everybody.

I'm modelling Nitinol stent crimp and expansion
into an idealised artery in Abaqus/Explicit. I am having numerous
problems with the ratio of kinetic energy to internal energy with the
analysis. I was hoping somebody may provide me with some insight on
this.

I am modelling the crimp stage using a C3D8 elements for
the stent and have defined a surface section for the crimper surface. I
am using kinetic contact and surface to node contact (surface to surface

ASME IMECE 2012: Symposium on Tribology of Thin Films and Small-Scale Structures

Submitted by Frank W. DelRio on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 21:26

Dear Colleagues:

We are currently soliciting abstracts for the 2012 ASME IMECE conference on November 9-15, 2012 in Houston, TX. The symposium is entitled Tribology of Thin Films and Small-Scale Structures and is part of the Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids Track.