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PhD scholarship for the research of composite materials

Submitted by mekchu on

There is an opening for students who want to join a PhDcourse or combined master + PhD course (Going to directly Ph.D. course without master thesis afterB.S.) in Department of Aerospace Engineering, GyeongsangNational University, South Korea.

The successful candidate will do research under the adviseof Prof. Jin-Hwe Kweon in Structure and Composite Lab. Prof. Kweon researchareas include testing and finite element analysis of:

1. Composite Cylinder under hydrostatic pressure,

2. Mechanical and bonding joints between composite materials,with or without z-pinning

Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Vol 24 issue 1 online now

Submitted by C Amss on
Dear colleague, 

   The 1st issue in 2010 (Volume 24, Issue 1) of Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (AMSS) is now online.

   Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal <http://ees.elsevier.com/camss/&gt; for rapid publication of your exciting results.

 

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PhD studentship, In vivo measurement of strains in intervertebral discs

Submitted by Chris W Smith on

I'm pleased to offer applications for a PhD studentship on measurement of strains in vivo in intervertebral discs at the University of Exeter. It will be co-supervised by myself on (the mechanics side) and Dr J Meakin (on the medical imaging side).

Experience with optical strain measurement (eg DIC, virtual fields method etc), reverse engineering problems and/or finite elements would be desirable. Tax free stipend of approx 14.5k GBP, funding only covers registration fees for EU nationals (ie non-EU nationals must find extra funding at circa 9k GBP per year for 3 years)

Open House: Can you define FEM in one line?

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

Can you define FEM in one line?

If yes, what would it be? And, in that case, permit me a second question: How?

 

...Really interested in knowing what the members of this community think (of this matter), if they do...

 

--Ajit

[E&OE]

 

St. Venant-Kirchhoff constitutive law in Abaqus

Submitted by Mike Graham on

I would like to conduct simulations in Abaqus using a St.
Venant-Kirchhoff constitutive law, but when I try to define a material
in Abaqus CAE I do not see it as an option.

 

Is this available as a
built-in model?

 Is this just another material model with a parameter set to a specific value? (Hyperelasticity isn't my strongest area.)