I’ve just come back from a Winter School on Dielectric Elastomer Transducers, held at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 10-16 January 2010. Lectures were given by various people, covering the theory of electromechanical interaction, design of devices, development of materials, and technologies of manufacturing. I was asked to give three lectures on the theory. I attach the slides of my lectures.
I am going to Modena on Monday to talk to my collegues in the Millechili lab (MilleChili means 1000Kg in italian)
There exist some software/codes for atomistic/continuum coupling multiscale materials modeling methods (in alphabetical order):
1. AtC, atomistic-to-continuum coupling, included in LAMMPS
2. BDM, bridging domain method, included in LibMultiScale
3. MMM, multiresolution multiscale mechanics method
NSF Summer Institute Short Course on
Mechanics of Soft Materials
Co-sponsored by
The Intrenational Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and
The US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (US/NCTAM)
Organizers: Yonggang Huang and Wing Kim Liu, Northwestern University
Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, 60201
Dates: May 10 (Monday) morning to May 12 (Wednesday) morning 2010
I will be setting up an open source project for parallel finite element analysis in the next month or two. I am just wondering what the community's opinion is regarding the best repository to use.
SourceForge? Google Software? Others?
Your opinions are welcome.
Hi everyone
I am a graduate student.I am trying to formulate a constitutive equation for rock salt based on irreversible thermodynamics theory. Recently,I encounted two prolems:
（1）how to define the damage variable?
(2)what's the meaning of "the maximum dissipation principle"?
could everyone give me some advice?
thanks a lot.
Chao Du
Finite Element Analysis of Vehicle and Tire has become a very important aspect of a tire design and failure analysis to most Tire companies. Tire modeling with ABAQUS is a very complicated process involving complex materials like hyperelastic rubber and textile reinforcements, large model size, prolonged simulation time and various convergence issues. This white paper intends to help in understanding the challenges in tire analysis and several tips and tricks that makes a difference in the quality of the results and processing time.
We wrote a book chapter about the role of the actin cytoskeleton in mechanosensation. The book title is Mechanosensitivity and Mechanotransduction, edited by A, Kamkin and I. Kiseleva and published by Springer-Verlag, New York.".
In this chapter, we try to integrate mechanics, materials science, biophysics and biology together to give a most updated view of this field. We also want to introduce the feedback loop concept to mechanicians who are interested in studying biological systems.
Dear Colleague,
The Sixth M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics will be held in June 2011 at M.I.T.
The theme of the Conference is "Solids & Structures", and the topic is interpreted in a very broad way.
The Abstracts for full papers to be published in Computers & Structures are due January 31, 2010.
please see http://www.sixthmitconference.org
The University Paris-Est Marne la Vallée, France, invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in multiscale computational mechanics, as assistant professor level, for September 2010 start date. The candidates will be hosted by the Laboratory of Multiscale Computational Mechanics (Laboratoire Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle, MSME UMR 8208 CNRS). Successful candidates are expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and carry out a research program with potential collaborations at the European and International level.
