Lee Margetts's blog
Abaqus UMATs
I have funding for software development to provide a UMAT interface in the parallel versions of the code from Smith I.M. and Griffiths D.V. "Programming the Finite Element Method", 4th Edition, Wiley, 2004.
I would be interested to hear about any open source UMATs available for download. I'd also like to hear from anyone who might like to use their closed source UMATs in a parallel environment.
The funding has been awarded by the UK National HPC Service HECToR to encourage the greater use of HECToR for Structural Engineering.
Soil Mechanics and Fossil Dinosaur Trackways
My PhD student Peter Falkingham (who graduated 15 December 2010) has published some interesting papers on Dinosaur Trackways. These might be of interest to those teaching Soil Mechanics, to give some examples that might be more stimulating than foundation design or traditional geotechnical engineering.
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Your Opinions About Open Source Software
All, I am conducting a survey and your response would be very much appreciated. The purpose of the survey is to gather data that will help the developers of open source software improve the success of their projects. All replies received before midnight Sunday 26th September will be entered into a draw for a £30 Amazon gift voucher. Here is a link to the survey: Click here to take survey Thanks for your participation! Lee Margetts
Interactive Simulation Environments
I'm doing a literature review on Interactive Simulation Environments. Does anyone have any suggestions for interesting papers to look at?
And if you've written one and let me know, I might cite it :-)
Newton International Fellowships
"The Newton International Fellowship scheme will select the very best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world, and offer support for two years at UK research institutions."
http://www.newtonfellowships.org
If you are interested in applying for a Newton Fellowship at the University of Manchester, meet the criteria specified on the url above, and have a background in:
Open Source Software Repositories
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.
DHPA Dinosaur Fellowship
Please note that the DHPA award is no longer available. We look forward to Ms Zartasha Mustansar joining us in January 2009.
Microsoft Sponsored PhD Fellowship
Using Computational Biology to Bring Predatory Dinosaurs Back to Life
The proposed programme of research seeks to use state-of-the-art computational techniques to reverse engineer the walking cycle of a predatory dinosaur. Software for image-based modelling, parallel finite element analysis and evolutionary robotics will be coupled and deployed