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Professor Ares Rosakis will receive the 2013 Theocaris Award from Society of Experimental Mechanics

Submitted by Yonggang Huang on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 00:35

Ares J. Rosakis, Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, is the recipient of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) 2013 P.S. Theocaris Award. This award recognizes a senior professional who is a Fellow of SEM and who has conducted outstanding research throughout his career in the field of experimental mechanics.

Professor Zhigang Suo will give the Thurston Lecture at the IMECE meeting, Houston, November 2012.

Submitted by Yonggang Huang on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 00:30

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Professor Zhigang Suo will give the Thurston Lecture at the IMECE 2012 meeting, Houston, 10am-noon, 11/14/2012, Wednesday.

Postdoctoral Research Associate at UPenn : Modeling of nanomaterials and soft materials

Submitted by Dibakar Datta on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 17:47

Journal Club Theme of July 2012: Mechanics of Biological and Biomimetic Cellular Structures

Submitted by Ashkan Vaziri on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 20:42

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cellular materials

hierarchical materials

biological systems

Co-op for PhD student

Submitted by aschmidt on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 19:49

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FEM

co-op

Colleagues,

I'd like to check if there are any good resources or ways to find additional co-op for a PhD student which will supplement current research in material science and optimization problems related to plastic deformation of sheet metals? More info about my area of research can be found at http://www.alexschmidt.net/research/default.htm and my CV http://alexschmidt.net/research/aschmidt_cv.txt

Spectral Element Method Mesher

Submitted by nicoguaro on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 14:47

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Finite Element Method

Spectral Element Method

Hi,

Is there a free/open-source mesher for the Spectral Element Method?

I know some researchers use conventional mesher with order 3 elements and then include more nodes in the meshes (but without improve the geometric interpolation).

Thanks in advance,

Nicolás Guarín Z.

How difference between Static analysis and Dynamic analysis in ABAQUS

Submitted by Sutham_eng on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 09:32

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Dear everyone,

Could anyone please explains to me how difference between Static (General) analysis and Dynamic (Explicit) analysis in ABAQUS?

In my case, I have already created subroutine VUMAT for Dynamic Explicit analysis. So, is it possible to use the same code (same algorithm) for creating UMAT in Static General analysis?

Thank you very much indeed

Sutham A.