This is a recent article in Acta Materialia on the propagation of conducting cracks in ferroelectric ceramics
Title: Conducting crack propagation driven by electric fields in ferroelectric ceramics
Authors: Amir Abdollahi and Irene Arias, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona
Abstract:
Prof. Wei Cai at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Stanford University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to contribute to the ParaDiS program (http://paradis.stanford.edu). This is a large scale parallel program for dislocation dynamics simulations for metal plasticity. A suitable candidate should have strong backgrounds on numerical methods and parallel programming, as well as solid mechanics and/or materials science.
A book review by Prof. George Weng (Rutgers University) is published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics, November, 2013. The book, Micromechanics of Composite Materials, was authored by Prof. George Dvorak and published by Springer, 2013.
http://appliedmechanics.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=1717240
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I am exploring the area of homogenization applications in structural
engineering.
In the literature which I have studied so far, I found papers which
developed these techniques using the structural properties of the periodic
"Unit Cell".
I am interested in estimation of approximate homogeneous properties from the
experimental data of periodic/random structures.
Can someone comment on the feasibility of this study and point me to relevant
literature if available.
A research fellow position available in Nanyang Technological University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Singapore. The candidate should mainly be familiar in modelling impact phenomena using software AUTODYN. The candidate should be able to join in one or two month.
For further information contact Professor Sridhar at msridhar [at] ntu.edu.sg (msridhar[at]ntu[dot]edu[dot]sg).
Hello Everyone,
I have been working on solving contact problems relating to fibrillar adhesives over the past 3 yrs of my PhD work. In the past, I used Comsol FEM to model contact interactions by implementing the Dugdale-Barenblatt traction separation law at the contact interface.
I just discovered (thanks to Dr K.O. Papailiou) this interesting 2007 paper on helical strand mechanical modelling. It is an up-to-date (and apparently quite exhaustive, except for non-English language contributions) review on the subject by T. Manvel Raj and N.S. Parthasarathy, of India. Its title: “A Complete Review on Friction Models of Composite Cables”. It was published in a Russian Academy of Applied Mechanics and Sciences journal, the International Journal of Mechanics of Composite Materials and Constructions, Vol. 13, No 3, pp. 356-384. Here is the Abstract:
