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Abaqus 6.13 - Live Webinar! July 23, 9am EDT and 12 pm EDT. The latest release, Abaqus 6.13 delivers a number of powerful, customer-requested enhancements for modeling, meshing, visualization, contact, mechanics, and performance. These improvements enable customers to reduce development time and costs, while increasing the efficiency of the product development process through highly accurate simulations of real-world product and material behavior.

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New web page of Finite Element Analysis software Z-set is now open: http://zset-software.com/

What is Z-set

Z-set is a computational code devoted to the analysis of material and
structure behavior, involving a finite element solver and a collection
of specific tools for material parameter calibration, preprocessing and
postprocessing computations. Z-set is the result of 30 years of close collaboration between the

As many othes, I find myself in the position that my funding agency mandates some form of parallel publishing (or preferably OpenAccess) (as well as an Open Access policy from my university itself).

I've been reading through what author rights i retain with different publishers, and among the big ones very little rights are retained.
Elsevier allows preprints to be published only if it is voluntary. That is, they intentionally prohibit mandated parallel publishing to protect their profit.
Wiley had different rights with different journals, but my first hand choice simply didn't allow parallel publishing of any kind ever.

Dear mechanicians

 

I remember reading somewhere that someone had a proof of the following:

Given a deviatoric/traceless second order tensor it is possible to find a basis for which all the normal/direct components equal zero.

For 2d this is easy: a basis rotated 45deg wrt. the eigenbasis.

The proof concerned 3d and it may have been Gurtin that had it in one of his books (sometihng tells me "The Linear Theory of Elasticity" (1972) as I don't have access to this one), but I'm not certain.

 

I have been trying to run an analysis with the user subrouting UMAT in abaqus 6.12. I have microsoft visual studio 10.0.40219.1 and fortran 10.1.034. I think I linked the compiler correctly, and the path variable should have all the necessary adresses. However, when I run the verification cpp_make, fortran_make, and std_user show errors. here is the fortran_make.txt file:

The Second International Conference on Experimental Solid Mechanics (X-MECH 2014) is being organized by the Center of Excellence in Experimental Solid Mechanics and Dynamics affiliated to the School of Mechanical Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. Further details can be found at: 

http://xmech.iust.ac.ir/