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Summer School on Fracture - June 7-18, 2010, Cargese

Submitted by Ravi-Chandar on

A Summer School on Fracture will be held at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, in Cargese, from June 7 to June 18, 2010. This is jointly organized by Elisabeth Bouchaud, CEA Saclay and Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas at Austin. Details of the School can be found at http://www.ae.utexas.edu/SummerSchoolFracture/ 

Mechanical Engineering Department Chair Opening at University of Houston

Submitted by Pradeep Sharma on

The Cullen College of Engineering of the University of Houston invites nominations and applications for the position of Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME). As part of a major drive for excellence, the college seeks innovative and enthusiastic leadership to build upon the strengths of the research and educational programs of the ME Department. The successful candidate must possess academic skills and credentials of the highest caliber, with an established national and international reputation in research, and academic and professional leadership in Mechanical Engineering or related fields. Credentials appropriate to the rank of Professor are required.

IOSO coupled with NUMECA application examples in turbomachinery

Submitted by IOSOnier on

Dear Colleagues,

IOSO optimization technology has been used in turbomachinery for more than 20 years and applied on real-life objects like aircraft and power engines. Let me offer you some more examples.

 

First example:

Engineering position open

Submitted by Hiring Mgr on

Smith International, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company, is a world-wide leading supplier of premium products and services to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, the petrochemical industry and other industrial markets.  We are seeking to hire a qualified candidate to fill the position of Engineer III in our Houston, TX location.   The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, organizing, and executing design development projects resulting in the definition of new products and improvements to existing dr

Ductile fracture prediction in Taylor Test

Submitted by sivaprasad.avs on

I am reading the Weirzbicki's paper titled "Numerical Prediction of fracture in the Taylor test". I do not understand the terms stress triaxility and Lode angle parameter clearly. What does the term "negative stress triaxiality at -1/3" stand for? Kindly explain me these two aspects clearly and also provide some references for reading.

Thanks and Regards,

Siva Prasad A V S.