Those of you who are looking for academic jobs and have not heard back from the places that you applied may find the following wiki useful.
http://wikihost.org/wikis/academe/wiki/mechanical_engineering
The idea is to let people know whether a position has been filled or not. You can add the positions you have applied to, whether you have been called for an interview, whether references have been requested, or whether you have got a rejection letter.
I just remembered another video that I had seen some time ago. Many of you have probably seen it but here it is for those who have not. (The original page where I found it is http://www.maniacworld.com/Laminar-Reverse-Flow.html.)
Prof. Pat McMurtry's explanation is:
The following video is a nice depiction of how the eigenmodes of a plate change with increasing forcing frequency.
Following Andy's recommendation I have been reading Ellis Dill's Continuum Mechanics[1]. In page 75 of the book, we find the
well known result that the constitutive equation for an isotropic hypoelastic
material can be derived from a stored energy function only if
where and are the Lame constants.
Our paper on the Mechanical threshold stress (MTS) model for 6061-T6 aluminum has been accepted by JoMMS. There are several things of interest in the paper:
1) The use of a phonon drag model to predict the sharp increase in flow stress at strain rates above 10,000 /s. This behavior is seen in a number of materials and is hard to fit using standard power law plasticity models. Our model does a good job in this regard.
If you are a faculty member on the tenure-track or a post-doc it's a good idea to chair a few minisymposia at conferences to buttress your resume. Here's an opportunity for you:
Via: Lori Graham-Brady
I've been to two conferences this year and I've again seen the same annoying features in many talks that have been warned against by numerous people over the years.
Here are some tips that might come in handy :
In small strain elastoplasticity we start off with an additive decomposition of the total strain into elastic and plastic parts. In terms of strain rates we write
Prior to 1990 most large deformation plasticity algorithms extended this idea by postulating an additive decomposition of the Eulerian stretching tensor (rate of deformation):