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Plasticity and non-Schmid effects

Submitted by Stefan C. Soare on

If slip is the only mechanism of
plastic deformation of a crystal and Schmid law governs the slip
activity, the overall response of an aggregate of such crystals
features the normality rule of classical plasticity, see
node/15347
for a rigorous recent proof. Any deviation from Schmid law is
referred to as a non-Schmid effect. In general, these effects may be
of two kinds: in addition to the resolved shear stress (on a slip
system), other stress components may influence slip activity or/and
the hardening of a slip system (representative examples for each kind
are described, for example, in Qin and Bassani(1992) and Spitzig

Plastic Spin

Submitted by Stefan C. Soare on

In the classical (rate-independent)
theory of metal plasticity, the plastic spin has been an issue of
research and debate for about thirty years. Judging by the content
of current publications on the topic (regarding modeling
possibilities, consequences and applications), it seems that the
concept has acquired a certain degree of acceptance, although no
rigorous justification, at theoretical level, has ever been provided.
In the attached preprint this matter is investigated starting from

Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS 2014); held at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, February 3-5, 2014

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on




Dear Colleague:

 

Please see attached for the first announcement for Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS 2014); the next conference following in a series of meetings gathering engineers, mathematicians, physical scientists, and others concerned with analytical, experimental and computational treatment of interface mechanics.   Full details about coverage are described in the attached announcement; the meeting will be held at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 3-5, 2014.

 

Two Ph.D. positions opened at the University of Brescia, Italy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The group of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at the School of Engineering at the University of Brescia, Italy has two openings for Ph.D. positions. The appointment will begin on January 1st 2014 for three full years.

PhD studentship in investigation of fracture mechanisms in spot welds of automotive steels (UK/EU nationals ONLY)

Submitted by Ghadbeigi on

there is a phd position on investigation of fracture mechanism of spot welds in automotive steels, 

the funding is available for UK/EU nationals

please go to

http://www.shef.ac.uk/mecheng/phd/projects/deformation-spot-welding 

for further information.

 

2013 Timoshenko Medal paper by Prof. Richard Christensen

Submitted by Yonggang Huang on

The 2013 Timoshenko Medal paper "Completion and Closure on Failure Criteria for Unidirectional Fiber Composite Materials " by Professor Richard Christensen from Stanford University is published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics in its January issue, 2014.  Professor Christensen will receive the ASME Timoshenko Medal at the IMECE conference in San Diego, CA, in November, 2013.

Open position in biomechanics/continuum mechanics for research assistant

Submitted by stefanhartmann on

There is an open position at the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Clausthal University of Technology for a



Research Assistant



(grant is given by the GIF - German-Israeli-Foundation for Scientific Research and Development - for 3 years).