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Do you care about the impact factor of the journal when you submit your article??

Submitted by yp on

just a friendly question to all of you....

what is your opinion on the journal impact factor...

i personally think is very superficial and skin deep beauty. but i want to know your opinion.

thanks 

return map algorithm

Submitted by UMAT on

Dear all,

I am trying to code a UMAT subroutine for perfect plasticity with a Tsai-Wu failure surface. I follow the procedure of the closest point projection in Simo & Hughes, Box 3.5, which is quite straight forward. At least I thought so

 The algorithm converges but unfortunately not to the correct point in the (plane-stress) stress space. At first I used an yield surface wich gives a unit sphere in the stress space. It is easy to control the normality of the plastic strain increment and the return-map algorithm is implified to a radial return algorithm.

PhDs and Post-doctorate Research Positions in Shape Memory Alloys

Submitted by binoddhakal on

There
are several immediate openings of research-oriented Phds and Post-Doc positions, in the
department of civil engineering, the University of Akron (UA). Please see tha attached file for datails.

WCCM Minisymposium 143 - Computational Modeling of Interface and Surface Mechanisms

Submitted by Laura De Lorenzis on

This minisymposium, organized by R.A. Sauer and L. De Lorenzis within WCCM 2012 (http://www.wccm2012.com/ ) focuses on computational methods studying the mechanics and physics of interfaces and surfaces (see attachment). All related contributions are welcome. The deadline for abstract submission is November 30th, 2011.

4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues - Program available

Submitted by Laure Ballu on

The 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, will take place in Hawai'i, USA, from 11-15 December 2011.



The oral and poster programs are available to download from the website http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-Program.html

To register, go http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-register.html