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Call for Abstracts: Symposium 3.2/5.6 - “Molecular to Macroscale Mechanics in Biology and Engineering” at SES

Submitted by keten on

Call for Abstracts: Symposium 3.2/5.6

"Molecular to Macroscale Mechanics in Biology and Engineering"

48th Annual Technical Meeting of Society of Engineering Sciences (SES) October 12-14, 2011 at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)

 


Universal Stability and Temperature Dependent Phase Transformation in Group VIIIB–IB Transition Metal FCC Nanowires.

Submitted by Vijay Kumar Sutrakar on

I want to share our recent research work on FCC metallic nanowires, which is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry - C (ACS Publications). The abstract of the paper is given below. Further details can be found at " Sutrakar et al  J. Phys. Chem. C, 2011, 115 (21), pp 10394–10398

DOI: 10.1021/jp2006815

 

Post-­‐doctoral research fellowship: Molecular mechanics of bone

Submitted by Markus J. Buehler on

Top candidates are sought for a collaborative research project between Dr. Sandra Shefelbine (Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London) and Dr. Markus Buehler (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).  This project will use molecular modelling techniques and associated experimental methods to explore the collagen-apatite interface in bone. 



Intel Visual Fortran and Abaqus

Submitted by NazBaba on

Hi, I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit. Iinstalled Abaqus 6.10.1 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition.

 

When I write abaqus info=system in Abaqus Command. There isa message ;

 

Requirement: Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 9.0 (2008), or10.0(2010)

Products: Abaqus make utility with C++

Status: Fail- Unable to locate or determine the version of aC++ compiler on this system.......

 

Requirement: Intel Fortran Compiler 10.1, or 11.1

HOW IS THE STRESS AND STRAIN DISTRIBUTION NEAR THE FATIGUE CRACK TIP ?

Submitted by Chen Long on

Dear friend:

            As known to all, the magnitude of the stress/strain at the crack tip is  mathematically infinite,while it is physically finite. So,what i am concerned is how to caculate the value of the stress/strain at the tip.What's more, i doubt that  whether the CTOD is constant during the propogation process.if yes.so can i take a constant range of the limited stress/strain near the crack tip? If there is any reply ,i will be appreciated!

Journal Club Theme of June 2011: Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Structural Materials

Submitted by qwei on

The response of structural materials to external mechanical load may strongly depend on the rate at which the load is imposed. For example, a specimen may exhibit ductile fracture if loaded at quasi-static rate (strain rate below 1.0/s), but may show brittle fracture under impact (high-rate) loading. According to the classic monograph of Professor Marc Meyers, if the strain rate is above 100/s, it can be put into the high-strain rate regime. The mechanical behavior of structural materials under such loading conditions is dubbed dynamic.

Interaction properties in CEL (abaqus)

Submitted by sujan on

Hi!



Hope doing well.



I am in trouble with interaction properties in CEL? I noticed that whatever my shear stress and frictional co-efficient value is, model always take it as zero i.e. frictionless property. I did this using tangential behaviour and penalty.



But I have to model it using shear stress value.



Please advice.



Thank you.



Sincerely-

sujan dutta.        

13 PhD positions + post-docs available end of 2011 (Subject to successful negotiations)

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on

Salary : €37,000 per annum for Ph.D. students (Early Stage Researchers Marie Curie Fellows) 

“Integrating Numerical Simulation and Geometric Design Technology (INSIST)” Leader: Prof. Timon Rabczuk, Weimar Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN)

Call: FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN