Postdoctoral and Graduate Assistant Positions are

immediately available to work on phase-field simulations of phase

transformations and microstructure evolution in metallic alloys or

oxides. Strong background in mechanics and thermodynamics of of solid

microstructures is a plus. If interested, please email a resume to

Professor Long-Qing Chen, Penn State University at lqc3 [at] psu.edu

All, 

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Catholic University of America (Washington DC) offers yearly a Fellowship to attract new Ph.D. students to the program. This Fellowship is currently available.

You can download a pdf file of this announcement.

Hi friends,

Can you explain Baushinger effect?

how it is related with KINEMATIC HARDENING?

Thank you

Dr. William F. Trench's book, "Introduction to Real Analysis," is now availablefor download free of charge.

Go to http://ramanujan.math.trinity.edu/wtrench/misc/index.shtml

Hi all, I am a new ABAQUS VUMAT user. I am defining the material behavior in stamping of sheet metal through VUMAT. But there are several questions about VUMAT.

（1）accoring to the ABAQUS user manual，for plane stress problem，stressnew(nblock,ndir+nshr), where ndir=3,nshr=1, but in fact,there are 5 stress commponents: sigma_{11},sigma_{22},sigma_{12},sigma_{23},sigma_{31}.

how to match stressnew(*,i)(i=1,2,3,4) with the stress commponents: sigma_{11},sigma_{22},sigma_{12},sigma_{23},sigma_{31}?

Hi all ... can somebody suggest me good book(s) on plate/beam theroy? The book should start for a novice and should go till large deformation part. Step by step explanation atleast for first few chapters should be there. Thank you.

Hello, I am trying to model a steel beam subjected to elevated temperatures using the ISO834 curve.

Dear all,

can anyone direct me to litrature in which modelling the diffusion equation of fluid porous flow is unified with the free fluid flow. I mean that the porous media is considered deformable and equilibrium conditions are solved simultanouesly with diffusion eq. for porous flow and at the same time fluid velocities inside and outside porous media are linked together in a poroelastoplatic framework; where porosity and geometry are updated with each time step!

Thank you in advance!

Hisham El Safti