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fatigue crack growth

Submitted by jonesr on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 10:45

Having glanced at the web site I can see that it might be useful to shed some light on fatigue crack growth and crack closure based concepts.

Free Materialise and ANSYS event on Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications

Submitted by Mimics on Wed, 10/28/2009 - 10:01

Are you curious to learn more about FEA or CFD simulations on patient-specific data? Then Materialise and ANSYS would like to invite you to their upcoming free seminar on “Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications”, where you will learn how numerical solutions can help the Biomedical and Healthcare industry in the development of innovative solutions.

Practical Info

- Date: Friday, November 20th, 2009.

- Cost: FREE!

- Location: Leuven (Belgium), Materialise HQ office

Rowland Junior Fellows Program Applications

Submitted by Matt Pharr on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 14:27

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The following message is from Dr. Frans Spaepen at Harvard University:

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics

Submitted by yongni on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 09:34

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Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics

Email: martin.chiang [at] nist.gov

Homepage: http://www.nist.gov/msel/polymers/biomaterials/martin_chiang.cfm

Research area: Biomechanics

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The effects of boron dopings and boron grafts on the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Submitted by haiyang song on Tue, 10/27/2009 - 09:19

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The effects of boron doping and boron grafts on the mechanical behaviour of armchair (6, 6)

and zigzag (10, 0) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under axial loading are

investigated using the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method. The results show that

Young’s moduli, the tension strength, the buckling loads and the buckling strains of SWCNTs

decrease after functionalization. The influences of the distribution density of functionalization

on Young’s moduli of SWCNTs are also systematically studied. The results show that Young’s

Internship available in FEA of elastomers

Submitted by Muralidhar Seshadri on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 19:11

Internship Announcement

Title : FEA of Elastomers

Category: Internship in Industry

Employer: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

Location: Sugar Land, TX, USA

Starting Date: 01/01/2010

Tsai-Wu FC

Submitted by Dimadima on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 18:15

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ansys

Good evening,

in the order to perfom a calculation of Tsai-Wu Fc in Ansys there are two fundamentally different methods:

1. with the help of nodal stresses.

2. or with the stresses from the element table.

I want to know what is the difference, and which method, according to your experience is the best.

Thank you very much!

Embryonic stem cell softness dictates stress-induced spreading and differentiation

Submitted by Ning Wang on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:24

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We recently find that embryonic stem cells are very sensitive to a local cyclic stress applied to the focal adhesion. They spread and differentiate (Oct3/4 downregulation) in response to this local force.