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ESIS TC4 2014 - Abstract deadline reminder: 25 October 2013

Submitted by Laure Ballu on Mon, 10/14/2013 - 14:50

conference

7th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives - 14-18 September 2014, Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland

We are looking for both experimetal and analytical work, in order to give a balanced view of the subject areas:

- Polymers

- Application of fracture mechanics

- Adhesives

- Composites

For more information or to submit your abstract, go to www.esistc4conference.com

Mechanical characterization and micromechanical modeling of bread dough. J.Rheol [http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.4768463]

Submitted by fendi on Mon, 10/14/2013 - 04:44

micromechanics

Viscoelastic

cohesive damage model

bread-dough

The mechanical behavior of dough, gluten, and
starch was studied in an effort to investigate whether bread dough can be
treated as a two phase (starch and gluten) composite material. Mechanical
loading tests revealed rate-dependent behavior for both the starch and the
gluten constituents of dough. There is evidence from cryo-scanning electron
microscopy that damage in the form of debonding between starch and gluten
occurs when the sample is stretched. In addition, the Lodge material model was
found to deviate from the tension and shear stress-strain test data by a

How to do such integration with dummy indicials for strain energy density?

Submitted by pengfei_guo on Sun, 10/13/2013 - 01:12

strain energy density

tensorial analysis

The integration puzzles me is

Integrate C_ijkl e_kl de_ij (from 0 to e_ij )= 1/2 C_ijkl e_ij e_kl

which is the well known strain energy density of elasticity and much like the energy in a spring as

Integrate k x dx (from 0 to x ) = 1/2 k x x.

By the way, this integration appears at page 226 in the book "Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures" by T Belytschko, B Moran, WK Liu, 1999, the book just directly throws out the result without any details.

User subroutine UEXPAN

Submitted by dingzhiwei007@… on Fri, 10/11/2013 - 17:41

research

UEXPAN

Hi all,

I recently study on a materials's expansion behavior. I am wondering if anyone have used the subroutine UEXPAN. It will much appreicated if you could provide me a sample.

Hope to see some response.

Best Regards

Zhiwei

Tenure Track Faculty Positions in The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, The University of Alabama

Submitted by unnithan on Fri, 10/11/2013 - 16:13

job

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

The University of Alabama

tenure track faculty positions

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS

Seeks applications for three tenure-track faculty positions

Measurements of the Fracture Energy of Lithiated Silicon Electrodes of Li-ion Batteries

Submitted by Matt Pharr on Fri, 10/11/2013 - 13:31

lithium-ion batteries

Multiple Ph.D. Positions in Mechanics of Soft Materials at Michigan State University

Submitted by Roozbehdar on Thu, 10/10/2013 - 22:43

The recently founded Group of Appleid mechanics in Enviormental & Civil Engineering Department at Michigan State University has a few openings for PhD positions to work on Multiscale Modeling of Soft Materials starting Fall 2014.

Open Postdoc Positions

Submitted by jianminqu on Thu, 10/10/2013 - 21:33

job

postdocs

There are two opening postdoc positions in mechanics at Northwestern University. Background in either
mesoscale numerical simulations or electron microscopy is preferred. Please contact Jianmin Qu at j-qu [at] Northwestern.edu (j-qu[at]Northwestern[dot]edu)

How to use USDFLD request variables from other elements in ABAQUS

Submitted by iampuchao on Thu, 10/10/2013 - 14:19

research

ABAQUS

User subroutines in ABAQUS

Hi all,

Virtual Special Issue: CFD simulation of pedestrian-level wind conditions around buildings: past achievements and prospects

Submitted by Laure Ballu on Thu, 10/10/2013 - 13:31

industrial aerodynamics

pedestrian

windbreaks

This Virtual Specail Issue deals with papers on CFD simulation of pedestrian-level wind conditions around buildings, published in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics (JWEIA).

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