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24th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics

Submitted by Arkadi Berezovski on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 08:21

24th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics

November 3-4, 2011 - Helsinki - Finland

The seminar is intended for researchers developing computational methods and scientists and engineers focusing on challenging applications and covers all fields of computational mechanics. In particular, presentations by graduate students are welcome.

More information: http://nscm-24.aalto.fi/ 

Polymer gels

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 13:42

These notes are part of a graduate course on advanced elasticity.

KTP Associate. Cardiff University - Finite element Company LUSAS

Submitted by TonyJefferson on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 08:57

job

FE development

Earthquake engineering

Graduate/Postgraduate Engineer

Cardiff University - Cardiff University and LUSAS

£25-£30k plus benefits. Fixed contract for 36 months with the potential for subsequent employment at the Company.

Are you a graduate or post graduate with an interest in Finite Element Analysis?

Research Leader and Manager, Carbon Resource Management Department

Submitted by Vanessa Van Dyk on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 19:44

research

computational

Research Leader

experiemental geomechanics

Help needed on VUINTER to define molecular interaction between two surfaces

Submitted by pphl on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:32

Hi,

Does anyone have any idea on using VUINTER to define adhesive contact between a hard body and a soft body (the potential between the two surfaces is molecular like van der waals or lennard-jones potential).

Coupling FEM and Monte Carlo

Submitted by hamed_amini on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:06

FEM

Kinetic Monte Carlo

I wnat simulat rollong process. Mteral deformation is simulated by FEM and i want simujlate microstructure evolution by KMC method. Do any one have experience in this field (coupling FEM and KMC) ?

Coupling FEM and Monte Carlo

Submitted by hamed_amini on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:02

research

FEM

Monte carlo

I want simulat micro strucure evolution in metal fromind, e.g. rolling. To capture grain growth or refinement, i use MC method and rolling process simulate by FEM method (ABAQUS). Do any one have experience in this field?

Can a beam act like a spring in relation to other spring?

Submitted by tarekaly on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 10:23

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a simply supported beam (length= L) is subjected to an upward force= F at the middle , at the same time there is a spring above the top of the beam at the middle too and the spring is subjected to a downward force = - F .

the spring stiffness is k1, beam stiffness k2 (which equal to the force which produce 1mm deflection at the middle of the beam i.e = 48EI/L^3 ).

the beam can be steel beam UPN 80 , considering weak axis Y (19.4 cm4)

An interesting arXiv paper: "Precession optomechanics"

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 07:26

Mechanics of Photonic Devices

Hi all,

Just thought that the following paper archived at the arXiv yesterday could be of general interest to any mechanician:

Xingyu Zhang, Matthew Tomes, Tal Carmon (2011) "Precession optomechanics," arXiv:1104.4839 [^]

The fig. 1 in it makes the matter conceptually so simple that the paper can be recommended to any mechanician for his general reading, and not only to a specialist in the field.

--Ajit

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