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One PhD student position at Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron, OH

Submitted by ShenShang on

Recruiting PhD students at University of Akron, Department of Civil Engineering. Intelligent Structural Engineering and Health Monitoring Group

Our website: http://isehm.mech.uakron.edu/

Research Area:Stochastic Modeling of Composite Materials, Inverse Problems, Experimental Mechanics.

Scholarship program is available for suitable candidate. 

Strain energy density function of a Transversely Isotropic Material

Submitted by ramdas chennamsetti on

Hi all,

I was going through Constitutive Modeling in Continuum Mechanics. I came across the Transversely Isotropic Materials (TIM). I have a couple of doubts, which are listed in the attached pdf file. I request the Continuum Mechanicians to clarify.

Thank you in advance,

Best regards,

- Ramadas

 

 

FIDESYS 1.0 is released

Submitted by nitelm on

Hello Everyone,



FIDESYS Desktop version is released.



FIDESYS is developed by the staff of Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. It is a competitive FEA solution package for structural mechanics. It is designed to be less hardware demanding and more cost affective for the user. For further information please visit the following site:



http://www.cae-fidesys.com/en



ABAQUS User Material Definition

Submitted by bagheriasl on

 

Dear
receiver

I am writing elastoplastic vumat
with abaqus commercial code. I thoroughly am expert at the definition of
constitutive equation but have a problem with the commands of the VUMAT.

For
example I have a problem with the definition of material properties such as
expansion, conductivity, coefficient of n and k at power law hardening and ….

Is
there any specific command for defining the material properties?  For example I have to use Props(nprops) for
it?

Looking for a Post-Doc position on Computational Geomechanics

Submitted by KamalCDas on

My name is Kamal C. Das and I am doing research on Computational Geomechanics at IIT Kharagpur,
India. I have submitted my Ph.D. thesis, titled 'Enriched Finite Element Method
and Application in Reinforced Jointed Rock Mass' on August 21, 2012. Currently,
I am looking for a post doctoral position.

To
introduce myself as a researcher, I had a bachelor and master degree in
Mathematics. As I always wanted to see myself
solving mathematical problems with direct applications, I started my career as

An interesting note about the TIMES universities ranking

Submitted by Ehteshami on

TIMES has a ranking for top 400 universities (+). This ranking has five factors to rank universities which are:

(1) Teaching: the learning environment-30% of overall score.

(2) International outlook: staff and students-7.5% of overall score.

(3) Industry income: innovation-2.5% of overall score.

(4) Research: volume, income and reputation-30% of overall score.

(5) Citations: research influence-30% of overall score.

Safety Engineering and Risk Management Debate 2012

Submitted by Henry Tan on

This is the discussion blog for the MSc course "Fundamental Safety Engineering and Risk Management Concepts" lectured at the School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen. This course is a core module for the following Postgraduate Taught Programmes: