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Postdoctoral position at University of Pittsburgh

Submitted by ravishm on

The Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh anticipates an opening for a postdoctoral associate starting September 2010. The position’s primary area of research will focus on mechanics of the microforming processes and characterizing the thermomechanics of deformation at micrometer length-scales.

Journal Club September 2010: Modeling the Mechanics of Cellular Membranes

Submitted by Alexander A. Spector on

Constitutive relations, 2-D vs. 3-D. The starting point for modeling cellular membranes is the constitutive relations in 2-D space. It is important to set up the corresponding equations directly in two dimensions rather than to consider them as an asymptotic limit of three-dimensional relationships, like it is done in the shell theory. The main reason for the direct 2-D relations is that 3-D continuum approaches are not applicable to membranes whose thickness in on the order of magnitude of the dimension of a single molecule.

Postdoc position at MIT: Thermal and mechanical properties of nanocomposites

Submitted by Markus J. Buehler on

A postdoctoral associate position at MIT is available immediately,
focused on the analysis and development of multifunctional thermal
management structures, by using theoretical and atomistic multiscale
modeling and simulation. This project specifically involves calculations
of thermal and mechanical properties of graphene based metal- and
polymer nanocomposites, with a focus on various aspects such as
interfacial transport properties, tunability, mutability and phonon
engineering. Additional aspects of the project relate to the general

INTERFACE FRACTURE IN ABAQUS

Submitted by surajmravindran on

Hiii alll,

How can we calculate J integral of interface fracture. I'm trying to reproduce results of Hutchinson paper crack defection at an interface between dissimilar material. But while using VCCT im confused that what value i can give for crack growth parameter G1c, G2c..how can we get G1c and G2c for an interface, is it needed. Want to find the energy release rate of deflection at the interface. The material interface is of aluminium and aluminium oxide. Please do reply.Hope u understand my problem.

Thank you...

Flow stress

Submitted by Bastian Boe on

Hello

I am working on a thesis project dealing with flow stress in cold rolling, a plane strain operation. To determine the flow stress, tensile tests were carried out. I am aware, that the engineering strain/stress hast to be transfered to the true strain/stress and then the true strain/stress from the tensile test has to be mulitplied with the Von Mises yield criterion to yield the correspondent compressive flow stress in the rolling situation.

Dislocation migration in carbon onions

Submitted by Jianyu Huang on

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 106102 (2010) 

What does a dislocation look like in a spherical geometry, and how does it migrate in such a structure? We report here the counterintuitive motion of the 1/2⟨0001⟩ edge dislocation in carbon onions from the outer surface to the inner core, i.e. from a low pressure surface to a high pressure core, rather than from the core to the surface as expected due to a surface image force. Maybe you can help us to explain this peculiar phenomenon.