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One PhD student position is available at Monash University Malaysia on mechanical properties of epoxy nanocomposites. 

 We expect students with the knowledge and experience in at least two of the following skills:

1- Polymer composites:Processing and characterization

2- Fracture mechanics of nanocomposites

3- Self-healing 

pooria.pasbakhsh [at] monash.edu. 

Hi all,

I have been trying to model the surface interaction between two blocks of material using surface-based cohesive elements (*cohesive behavior). This works well in ABAQUS CAE (standard) when I set the material properties as "Mechanical, Elastic" so no problem with that.

However, I would now like to use the material properties from a fortran code. To do this, I was planning on defining the elements using *UEL with an overlay to record all the values. Is this compatible with cohesive zone elements? 

Hello,

Is it possible to transfer CFD results from Ansys to Abaqus and how?

thank you

Here is a webpage with a number of videos, both experiments and matlab animations, of balls and people bouncing on a trampoline. Also, links to a paper in PLOS ONE.

http://movement.osu.edu/webpages_for_papers/seatdropwar2013.html

The interesting phenomenon is that when two balls are in simultaneous contact with each other, there is a dramatic energy transfer from one ball to the other.

Here is an article in Popular Science about the phenomenon:

Hi,

Is there a free/open-source mesher for the Spectral Element Method?

I know some researchers use a conventional mesher with order 3 elements
and then include more nodes in the meshes (but without improve the
geometric interpolation).

Thanks in advance,