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Journal Club October 2010: Mechanical behaviour of highly packed particulate composites
Materials such as sedimentary rocks, pharmaceutical tablets, plastic bonded explosives, biscuits, concretes, nacre, solid propellants, seashells and asphalts can be treated as particulate composites that consist of particles of high volume fraction, matrixes of thin layer and interfaces of high specific surface area. Mechanical behaviour of highly packed particulate composites is the theme of this issue of Journal Club forum.
modelling of reinforced concrete structural elements in ANSYS
i want to model reinforced concrete beam and column in ansys software.i choose the same solid 70 both for steel and concrete. changed only the material properties. is it ok?
how can i model the stirrups?
if i am using the link33 for steel,how can i do it?
i am going to find the fire resistance of reinforced concrete beams and columns by including the factors required under performance based design and validating the results with real fire test values.
how we include the multilinear properties of concrete in the modelling?
Why penetrable model can be assumed in random?
There is a lot of homogenization theories based on penetrable model or some other name like 'overlapping', 'randomly imbedded model' to analyze random microstructure. In reality, the fibers or inclusions can not be penetrated into each other, so why they use this assumption anyway?
Thanks for your opinion.
National Research Council has ranked the doctoral programs of universities in the States
National Research Council ranks the doctoral programs of universities in the States every ten years. The new ranking just came out. Here are the results for mechanicsl engineering and civil engineering.
Mechanical Engineering:
-- survey based rank:
1. Stanford, Brown, CalTech
2. Northwestern
3. U. Michgan, Princeton
Dr.Vikram deshpande of Cambridge University set to take over as Professor, effective october 1 .
I feel honoured to share this news that, Dr. Vikram deshpande of cambridge University engineering department is appointed as Professor, effective October 1. He is quite a inspiration to people like me who work in solid mechanics.His contribution to this area is immense and i really feel happy for his acheivements and many more to come.
My heartiest congragulations to him
Regarding transverse material properties of woven composites!
Dear all,
I need suggestions regarding the transverse/out of plane material properties like E3, G13, G23 for woven composites. While modeling(and simulation) the woven composite in LS-Dyna where a shear load is applied over the surface of the laminate to study the damping behaviour of the material, i need to give the material properties (especially G13 or G23 plays a major role) which is not precisely available in the literature.
10th biennial International Conference on Vibration Problems
ICoVP-2011
10th biennial International Conference on Vibration Problems
September 5-8, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Purpose of ICOVP-2011 is to bring together scientists with different background who are actively working on vibration-related problems of engineering both in theoretical and applied fields.
More information: http://www.icovp.org/
Sixth M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics: special session on Multiscale Computational Nanomechanics
We are inviting abstracts for the following special session: Multiscale Computational Nanomechanics, Sixth MIT conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June 15-17, 2011, Cambridge, MA, USA.
http://www.sixthmitconference.org/
Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2011.
The topics covered by this special session include (but are not limited to):
-Continuum modeling incorporating nanoscale effects