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TWELVE STEPS TO A WINNING RESEARCH PROPOSAL

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By George A. Hazelrigg, National Science Foundation

I have been an NSF program director for 18 years. During this time, I have personally administered the review of some 3,000 proposals and been involved in the review of perhaps another 10,000. Through this experience, I have come to see that often there are real differences between winning proposals and losing proposals. The differences are clear. Largely, they are not subjective differences or differences of quality; to a large extent, losing proposals are just plain missing elements that are found in winning proposals. Although I have known this for some time, a recent experience reinforced it.

ES 246 project: Plane Strain Extrusion - Slip-line Field Solution vs. FEM Solution

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Plasticity
Fall 2006
project
ES 246

Due to maturity of FEM package, slip-line field theory is not widely used these days. However, we shall keep in mind that slip-line field analysis can provide analytical solutions to a number of very difficult problem which may involve huge deformations or velocity discontinuities, e.g. many metal forming processes. To evaluate these two analytical and numerical methods for plasticity I will try a simple example, compare these two solutions and finally get into a conclusion of my own.

George Rankine Irwin (26 February 1907 - 9 October 1998)

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Dr George Rankine Irwin (26 February 1907 - 9 October 1998) was an American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials. He was internationally known for his study of fracture of materials. Read more...

Also see his acceptance speech upon receiving the Timoshenko Medal.

Innovation Hall of Fame, University of Maryland.

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