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University of Glasgow, Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Materials

 
Increased Reliability for Industrially Relevant Automatic Crack Growth Simulation with the eXtended Finite Element Method

 
http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G042705/1 (Funding for £483k)

A unique EPSRC funded 4 year post-doc to investigate

- goal-oriented error estimation in XFEM

- adaptivity for 3D crack growth

The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing a symposium on Multifunctional Material Systems at IMECE2009 to be held in Lake Buena Vista, FL, during Nov. 13-19, 2009.

Abstract submission deadline: March 2, 2009

Dear All,



Could somebody indicate me some literature about the topic "2D
approximation of heterogeneous 3D media"?



In particular I am interested to address following issues:



1) Under which conditions averaging thermal conductivity and young
modulus (or more general, mechanical behaviour) on multiple 2D crossections of an heterogeneous "random"
material can be a good approximation for the behaviour of the real 3D
microstructure

I am Neil. Please suggest some good texts for Explicit Finite Element Method. I would like to start with the basics and then go in depth, so that i can start some simple coding.

Thanks for any information you can offer. 

Symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Material Structures in Advanced and Emerging Technologies